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It seems to me that you are really looking for materials on the communicative approach. Sure, upon first learning a new structure in English, the communicative approach advises giving heavily "scaffolded" activities - gap fill, listen and repeat, etc. but the idea is that with each new activity, par...

I'd like to cover slang expressions with my class, but wouldn't it be nice if there were a scientific way of identifying the slang expressions that would be the most useful for them?
Does anyone know of corpus-based resources for slang study?
Thanks in advance!