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Actually, I feel the same, that most of the time, I don’t quite get the meanings of academic writing. It’s understandable that scholars use jargon even when more accessible language is available. They need advanced language to show their professions in certain field. Also purpose of the article and its intended readers both play important roles for scholars in deciding what and how to write. Even for native speakers, if they are don’t work or study in certain field, they are not familiar with the jargons either. Not to mention the difficulties for second language learners. When it comes to slangs or jargons, it adds more challenges for language learners, which would probably upset their learning and shake their motivation. My suggestion is that learners don’t take these slangs and jargons too seriously. They only constitute a small proportion of daily English vocabularies. For jargons, you don’t need to learn them until you are interested in that certain field or until you have to use them on a regular basis. For slangs, by using them correctly, it would make you sound more like a native speaker. But it’s informal and usually used in speaking contexts. It’s better to stick to the formal ways of using the correct second language first, after that, when you become an advanced learners, you can start to learn some slangs.