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This essay examines how teachers perceive youth language in schoolwork. We look into what the teachers believe youth language to be, when it is used and how often it is used, as well as for what purpose it is used. This essay also examines the teachers’ attitudes towards youth language, as well as their response to the presence of youth language in schoolwork. The study follows a phenomenographic approach, which means that the teachers’ perspective is the focus of the study as a whole. The research methodology used was mixed methods, as well as a thematic analysis method. This conveys that both qualitative and quantitative means have been used to gather the data, in the form of semi-structured interviews and an online survey, the latter of which was sent out to numerous schools in the Northern part of Sweden, and that the empirical data was thematically sorted and analysed. The results show that there is a shared understanding of what youth language entails, however, the attitude towards it varies depending on the purpose of the task. The teachers have different expectations depending on what programme the students attend and the gender of the students. The results also show that the perceived frequency of the use of youth language varies between programme and gender, and the teachers’ responses to the presence of youth language also varies depending on these same factors.