"youth language" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to the style of language adopted by young people, often to differentiate themselves from adults. For example, "I heard some youth language on the bus this morning!".
One time my mum was texting me, using all this youth language.
Steinberg was able to use his youth, language skills and powers of manipulation to flatter and cajole, eliciting extra food and favors from camp guards, doctors and fellow inmates.
Third, researchers adopted elements of youth language in communicating with respondents, including informal wording and ideograms (or emoji), and combined them with formal wording in seeking cooperation.
– Police force teaches officers "youth language" in "popo engagement" classes.
But does the study really show that texting hurts — or even might hurt — youth language skills?
UCLA Education Professor Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is the author of "Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture (Rutgers University Press 2009).
Highlighting how youth scaffold language development, appropriate new discourses, and create speech communities in multilingual contexts has implications for the design of language education.
Lesaux's developmental and experimental research on school-age children and youth investigates language, reading, and social-emotional development; classroom quality and academic growth; and strategies for accelerating language and reading comprehension.
We need to speak to youth in language they understand.
Without the revitalization of youth, a language can go from being alive to endangered (declining speakers among the young), then moribund (only elderly speakers left alive), then dead (the last known speaker dies) -- all linguistic terms of art.
The Community Care Fund is a competitive grant-making program for diverse Triangle nonprofits, and the funding supported the Durham Literacy Center's "Youth English Language and Job Readiness Initiative," which helps young, non-native students improve their English skills, knowledge of career pathways, and life skills.
