The Internet TESL Journal
For Teachers of English as a Second Language

Vol. XII, No. 4, April 2006

Articles

• Rhymes, Stories and Songs in the ESL Classroom
  By Joy L. M. Brown

Teaching Techniques

• Using Newspaper Articles Communicatively in the ESL Classroom
  By Jonathan Clifton

Lessons & Lesson Plans

• Communicative Group Activity: What's Your Opinion?
  By Mark Coughlin

• A Lesson about Animals for ESL Students: Use or Abuse?
  By Daymon Macmillan

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Commonly-used Acronyms

• CALL = Computer Assisted Language Learning
• EFL = English as a Foreign Language (Studying English in non-English-speaking countries)
• ELT = English Language Teaching (or sometimes Training)
• ESL = English as a Second Language (Studying English as a non-native speaker in a country where English is spoken. Depending on where you are from, the term ESL may be more inclusive and includes EFL. For some people the reverse seems to be true.)
• ESOL = English to Speakers of Other Languages (Note: ESL and EFL are often used interchangeably. This acronym is an attempt to make a generic term and then assign more limited meanings to ESL and EFL.)
• L1 = "Language 1" = the student's native (primary or first acquired) language.
• L2 = "Language 2" = the language being learned or studied
• TEFL = Teaching English as a Foreign Language
• TESL = Teaching English as a Second Language
• TESOL = Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (It is also the name of an association, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.)
• TOEFL = Test of English as a Foreign Language
• TOEIC = Test of English for International Communication