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Originally Posted by Tdol EFL- students are not living in an English-speaking country. ESL/ESOL- students are living in (or planning to) an English-speaking country. This term is the same as ESL, but ESL is used in the USA and ESOL is more common in the UK and Australia. |
ESOL is also the choice more commonly used in NZ, but then it's quite common for people to forget the 4 million native English speakers who live here.

