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Modern methods and different activities for teaching vulgarisms



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2.3. Modern methods and different activities for teaching vulgarisms
Swear words are everywhere, and for better or for worse, they are powerful. As we all know, they have the power to offend people, and they even give us the power to embarrass ourselves.
According to Harvard linguist Steven Pinker, in addition to verbal abuse, swear words have a variety of other important uses, including to add emphasis, to convey emotion, to find relief from pain, and quite importantly, to connect people in a relaxed social atmosphere. [30, 149]
What most English learners don’t realize, even though they do this in their own native language, is that swear words can actually be a pretty useful, powerful, and even necessary tool for fluent use of spoken English, and more importantly, what it’s all for: connecting us with our fellow human beings.
What they don’t teach you in school is that by learning slang, colloquial language, and even swear words, you deepen your connection not only to the pronunciation and the comprehension of the language, but also to the culture AND the people.
However, as we’ll talk more about below, to use swear words in your spoken language demands a high degree of understanding, cultural sensitivity, and caution. But there’s no better time to start learning than right now.
There are at least four main interrelated reasons why the English learning industry is so resistant to bad words:
A general misunderstanding of the utility and nature of swear words, as well as the assumption that they are always bad, leads teachers and learners to not value these.
Most non-native teachers don’t know how to use them themselves, and don’t have a deep understanding of colloquial aspects of the language.
A lack of adequate explanations, resources, and safe learning opportunities for students to develop the understanding, cultural sensitivity, and perception of swear words.
Very small errors in the spoken use of swear words can drastically alter the meaning and cause big misunderstandings.
Schools, teachers and students have reason to be afraid. Let’s face it, curse words are delicate, volatile, and few English learners were taught how to use them properly. After all, without a correct understanding AND cultural sensitivity, you may very easily offend people and embarrass yourself.
The truth is that even many native speakers aren’t mature enough to use them in a culturally fluent way, so maybe swear words really are better learned outside of the classroom.
For those who decide to develop a deeper connection to the English language, the problem remains: they don’t have access to a safe container where they can practice, play with them, develop cultural sensitivity, and get feedback.
Given the fact that most people learn English from books and traditional schools, they are never given the opportunity to learn how to use them responsibly, so they either:
(a) totally avoid them
(b) abuse them and offend people.
Avoiding them is clearly the best of these two options, and if we’re dealing with young children or emotionally immature adults, it is probably the only option.
However, for those of you who are capable of paying attention to context, listening, and developing the necessary understanding AND cultural sensitivity to use them with caution, I’m going to introduce a responsible and effective approach to learning curse words.
First, let’s look at how learners, and even native speakers, tend to abuse them though.
The biggest danger of English learners using swear words is that we don’t feel how they affect others.
When adults learn a swear word in a foreign language, we tend to develop an intellectual understanding of the word, but miss a significant part of the emotional programming necessary to feel the emotion behind the words, how they affect others, and the proper context to use them.
In fact, swear words are even programmed into our brains in a different way. While language processing is generally a higher brain function and uses the cerebral cortex, swear words are based on emotion, which is considered a lower brain function, and uses limbic system and basal ganglia.
If you observe your native tongue, how you or other native speakers use swear words, you’ll realize that you were conditioned from a very young age to feel the emotional effect of swear words.

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