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Old 31-Oct-2003, 20:30
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hi, i am and english's student an i want to know what is the difference between english as foreign language and english as a second landuage
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I think it depends on the country. For example, in this country (USA) English is not considered a foreign language, so we teach ESL but not EFL.

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hi, i am and english's student an i want to know what is the difference between english as foreign language and english as a second landuage
ESL = English as a Second Language OR English for Survival.

EFL = English as a Foreign Language OR English for Fun.

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I also think that it depends on the country and its conceptions. Because for example here in Spain you can find english as a foreign language, which is basically a non-matternal language that you're learning on porpouse rather than naturally, and english as a second language means, as far as I'm concerned, that you have alredy chosen another language to learn after your matternal language. For example, here in Spain we mainly study English as a foreign language and later we (may) start French as a second language

(though we're horribly bad at both of them )
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