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•  EFL = English as a Foreign Language.         
  This is about learning English when you live at home, in a non-English speaking country.

• ESL = English as a Second Language.
  This is when you live in an English speaking country, but your first language is not English.

• ESOL = English as a Second or Other Language.  This can mean either of the above.

• ELT simply means ‘English language teaching’.

• TEFL is the 'teaching of English as a foreign language'.  This can happen when English is being taught in a country where it isn't the native language:  (For example: teaching English to Spanish people in Spain).

• TESL is the teaching of English as a second language for people who need to learn English because they are now living in an English speaking country; perhaps as immigrants.
  (For example: teaching people who emigrate to the U.K. or the U.S.A.)
  

• TESOL is the American way of saying ‘teaching English to speakers of other languages’ and  includes both TEFL and TESL.

•  Other terms sometimes used include:

• EAL (English as an additional language), ESD (English as a second dialect),
  EIL (English as an international language), ELF (English as a lingua franca),
  ESP (English for special/specific purposes), EAP (English for academic purposes),
  ELL (English language learner).
  
  
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