Talk:Teaching English as a second language

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This article, Teaching English as a second language (TESL), is brief because it is new. It is important to keep it here because it complements the longer Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) article. It is not appropriate to use that longer article to write about this one because they are different although related topics. TEFL and TESL are easy to conflate and doing so should be avoided. The teaching profession uses these two distinct acronyms because these two topics are mutually exclusive -- a teacher will generally be in one or the other situation, not both at once. They are not synonyms. Clarity is served by maintaining distinct articles here. Cheers, --Roger Chrisman (talk) 01:02, 4 February 2008 (UTC)