Teaching slang as a language version with digital tools
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21030/anyp.2021.1.5Keywords:
teaching of slang, ICT tools, tasks, slang, first language teachingAbstract
The topic of language and society is an essential part of today’s high school’s first language lessons. An important aim of the National Curriculum is to ensure that the students’ communication skills develop appropriately during their secondary studies, and sociolinguistics also plays an important role in this. The examination of social language versions, especially the knowledge of the more and more widely spread slang, might contribute greatly to the students’ adequate utterances in every communicative situation. The study examines how the use of digital tools might be effectively integrated into teaching the topic of slang. In addition to a short theoretical introduction to teaching slang and the use of ICT-tools in lessons, it also provides several tasks. The tasks all reflect a 21st century pedagogical approach, and they might be applied to the transfer of new theoretical knowledge, repetition and practice. The ICT tools used for the tasks encourage students for individual learning and activity, and this way they can acquire the topic of slang in a familiar environment.