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Whether we should teach slang in a foreign / second language class has alwaysbeen a controversial issue among the ELT practitioners since most of the languageteachers consider it as a lower level of language on the basis of its vulgarity in anacademic environment. However, there are also some other teachers who believethat slang is an integral part of everyday language. As known by everybody, slangdiffers a lot from the standard and formal language from the point of its vocabularyand structure. It is an inevitable fact that slang has penetrated even into mass mediaand it is a living, constantly expanding, and regularly evolving language phenomenon. It is for this reason that a student who learns a foreign language in Turkeyoften encounters some difficulties in understanding some TV serials as well as communicating with the people of a young generation. In this paper I suggest that slang needs to be integrated into foreign language classes and that this is the only way to enable young learners to have confidence inthemselves and interact with native speakers

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