‘SLANGuage,’ a free ESL class hosted by The Christian Association at Penn, aims to educate students about idioms and slang language that they might not learn in a more formal English language course.

Stephen Mayeux (picture above), an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher at the University of California, Davis, is using hip-hop to teach American slang to ESL students.

Survey research on academic skills that ESL students need to function effectively at English-speaking universities has, for the most part, focused extensively on reading and writing skills.