ESOL

Immigrant English instruction

ESOL stands for English for Speakers of Other Languages—instruction designed for people whose native language isn't English.

The term appears in educational contexts: ESOL classes, ESOL students, ESOL certification for teachers.

It overlaps with ESL (English as a Second Language), though ESOL acknowledges that English may be a third or fourth language for some learners.

instruction

teaching

Profession of instructing others

students · instructor · immersion · syllabus · didactics · scaffolding · differentiation · inclusion · tutoring · newcomers

skills

fluency

Smooth linguistic command

listening · reading · writing · pronunciation · grammar · vocabulary · conversation · literacy · phonetics · phonics

certification

DELTA

Military special forces unit

diploma · qualification · endorsement · accreditation · examiner · assessment · Trinity · certify

learners

immigrant

One who resettles abroad

multilingual · bilingual · non-native · beginner · intermediate · advanced

Categories
Opposites
target learner population

ESOLnative speaker

One who grew up speaking it

ELA · Anglophone

language direction

ESOLworld languages

Systems of human communication globally

foreign language education · modern languages · French immersion

Family

TESOL

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