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ESL vs ELS

I saw an English institution calls ESL in Korea and ELS in other country. What's the difference between ESL and ELS?
  

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white filted: [nq:1]I saw an English institution calls ESL in Korea and ELS in other country. Google also finds interpretations like: "Encyclopedia of Life Sciences" "Evangelical Lutheran Synod" "Elektronik Laser System" "Employment, Labour and Social Affairs" "Evansville Lapidary Society" none of which I'd approach for language lessons.. r

  • white filted: [nq:1]I saw an English institution calls ESL in Korea and ELS in other country.
  • Google also finds interpretations like: "Encyclopedia of Life Sciences" "Evangelical Lutheran Synod" "Elektronik Laser System" "Employment, Labour and Social Affairs" "Evansville Lapidary Society" none of which I'd approach for language lessons..
  • r
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white filted:
[nq:1]I saw an English institution calls ESL in Korea and ELS in other country. What's the difference between ESL and ELS?[/nq]
ESL is "English as a Second Language"...don't know ELS, but it seems to be the name of a company that offers instruction in English...Google also finds interpretations like:
"Encyclopedia of Life Sciences"
"Evangelical Lutheran Synod"
"El
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[nq:1]I saw an English institution calls ESL in Korea and ELS in other country. What's the difference between ESL and ELS?[/nq]
I worked in Italy for the European School of Languages last year. The name didn't have a connection with English as a Second Language.

DC - not Diego Casevettes
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[nq:2]I saw an English institution calls ESL in Korea and ELS in other country. What's the difference between ESL and ELS?[/nq]
[nq:1]I worked in Italy for the European School of Languages last year. The name didn't have a connection with English as a Second Language. DC - not Diego Casevettes[/nq]
Scrub that - European Language School.
DC - not David Cassidy, either
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[nq:1]I saw an English institution calls ESL in Korea and ELS in other country. What's the difference between ESL and ELS?[/nq]
And anyway, isn't EFL more er, correct?
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[nq:2]I saw an English institution calls ESL in Korea and ELS in other country. What's the difference between ESL and ELS?[/nq]
[nq:1]And anyway, isn't EFL more er, correct?[/nq]
Different things:
English as a Second Language - for people who live long term in an English speaking country
English as a Foreign Language - people who use English for travel, business or as a Lingua Fran
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[nq:2]And anyway, isn't EFL more er, correct?[/nq]
[nq:1]Different things: English as a Second Language - for people who live long term in an English speaking country English ... are subsets of ESOL - English for Speakers of Other Languages. AmE usage tends to just be ESL for everything.[/nq]
What about the übercorrect ELF (English as a Lingua Franca)?

Mickwick
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[nq:1]What about the übercorrect ELF (English as a Lingua Franca)?[/nq]
Never heard of it chuck.
DC
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white wrote on 02 Nov 2004:
[nq:1]I saw an English institution calls ESL in Korea and ELS in other country. What's the difference between ESL and ELS?[/nq]
ELS is the name of a language school. There are many of them in America.

Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor
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[nq:1]What about the =FCbercorrect ELF (English as a Lingua Franca)?[/nq]
Hey, watch them French cracks, boy. Y'all think we's a bunch'a=20 cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys ova heah?
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[nq:2]What about the übercorrect ELF (English as a Lingua Franca)?[/nq]
[nq:1]Never heard of it chuck.[/nq]
You've got anuvver fing coming, ven. ELF might mark the end of dental fricatives as we know vem. What's more, you might be out of a job if it catches on. Some ELF enthusiasts reckon that native speakers, who have been immersed since birth in notions of grammatical and phonological co

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