The distinction between acronyms TESL (Teaching of English as a Second Language) and TEFL (Teaching of English as a Foreign Language) shows some attention of different researchers to the concepts of foreign language and second language.

So the first stage in training is to teach the dog ESL, English as a second language.

Another fast growing sector of adult education is English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), also referred to as English as a Second Language (ESL) or English Language Learners (ELL).

Russian was still widely taught, however, as a second language.

Burmese is spoken by 32 million as a first language and as a second language by 10 million, particularly ethnic minorities in Burma and those in neighboring countries.

The only official language of Mozambique is Portuguese, which is spoken mostly as a second language by about half of the population.

Test of English as a Foreign Language or TOEFL (, ) is a standardized test of English language proficiency for non native English language speakers wishing to enroll in U.S. universities.

English is also an official language, and according to a 1996 by census is spoken by 3.1 percent of the population as an everyday language and by 34.9 percent of the population as a second language.

Under the rule of the Emperor Trần Nhân Tông, the Vietnamese language was used for the first time as the second language in official scripts of the royal court, besides Chinese.

Apart from the use of Frisian as a first language, it is also spoken as a second language by about 120,000 people in the province of Friesland.

He then shares with us his reflections on both the challenges and advantages of being a Japanese actor from an English as a Second Language background in Australia.

For example, French speakers who spoke English as a second language pronounced the t sound in French differently from monolingual French speakers.

To improve instruction in spoken English, the government invites many young native speakers of English to Japan to serve as assistants to school boards and prefectures under its Japan Exchange and Teaching Program.

In Asia, Japan ranks above only North Korea in scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) examination.

According to a survey ordered by the European commission in 2005, 49 of Croatians speak English as the second language, 34 speak German, and 14 speak Italian.

According to a survey ordered by the European commission in 2005, 49 of Croatians speak English as their second language, 34 speak German, and 14 speak Italian.

Overall, the majority of the native population views the language in a positive light and nearly all learn to speak Arabic as a second language from an early age.

In North and West Wales, Welsh is widely spoken as a first language, but much less so in the South East of the country, where English is the predominant language.

I'm studying English.

Do you study English?

An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use.

Language The official language of Jamaica is English.

Do you speak English?

English is difficult, isn't it?

Now don't get me wrong I am not against teaching English, all you English teachers out there.

Uzbekistan stated that it had designated the Russian language as the language acceptable to it.

English is a sister language of German.

English is the world's language.

Due to the expansion of English into a world language during the British Empire, literature is now written in English across the world.

The common language used by the delegates during the conference was English.

They introduced the Old English language, which largely displaced the previous British language.

One billion people speak English.

Will you help me with my English homework?

You like English, don't you?

Is English harder than Japanese?

Is French more difficult than English?

Most British literature is in the English language.

Local languages are spoken in some neighborhoods, but almost everyone understands and uses Persian as second language.

Languages Wolof (national), French (education and official), English and Spanish.

The main language is colloquial Swahili, and the English language is extensively taught in schools.

Patricia Ryan Don't insist on English!

English has many loan words from French.

I like English more than maths.

This prevented any expansion of the use of the Italian language as a primary language in Argentina.

All pupils in Wales are taught Welsh as a second language up to age 16, or are taught in Welsh.