A Phrase By Any Name
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| Description | I don't find out about you-but I hate acronyms. Yes, I know they have a comfort issue but they also appear to me to be possibly sinister, redolent of George Orwell's Newspeak. Our industry has its fair share of them and woe betide anyone who uses one incorrectly. Never, like, say ESL or TESL once you mean ESOL or TESOL. Why? Since you might unwittingly offend a learner by referring to ESL (English as a second language) if the learner might be described as a speaker of several languages with English some way down the pecking order: it is politically more appropriate to refer to English for speakers of other languages (ESOL). So important has this distinction become that the heavy hand of officialdom in the united kingdom now needs people seeking British citizenship to show that they've at the very least ESOL Entry-level 3 from the national 'skills for life' course (strange distinction, after all we barely need 'skills for death ~'~~). Examination boards today dutifully offer ESOL qualifications that appear to have surpassed the old EFL records, making English as a foreign language somehow less appropriate. So have EFL and TEFL lost status? Not quite, nevertheless they suggest the use of English in international circumstances, perhaps among non-native speakers. They still obtain a try, but to instruct English as a 'foreign' language requires different emphases. Like, TESOL would require the teacher to concentrate on contexts and situations the pupils would meet in every day life in an Anglophone country. TEFL, on-the other hand, indicates an orientation towards travel and worldwide circumstances. This splendid morrissey paper has numerous impressive lessons for why to see about this hypothesis. I do not question that these variations have their uses but the trouble is that you can see the potential for all sorts of new acronyms coming. Once we will begin to teach EIL as an international language) (English or EIB (English for international business)? I'd happily accept good, conventional ELT (English language teaching).. |
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