Laptop Battery I don't know about you but I loathe acronyms. Yes, I know they
have a convenience factor but they also seem to me to be
potentially sinister, redolent of George Orwell's Newspeak. Our
field has its fair share of them and woe betide anyone who uses one
wrongly. Never, for example, say ESL or TESL when you mean ESOL or
TESOL. Why? because you might unwittingly insult a learner by
referring to ESL (English as a second language) when the learner
might be a speaker of several languages with English some way down
the pecking order: it is politically more correct to refer to
English for speakers of other languages (ESOL). So important has
this distinction become that the heavy hand of officialdom in the
UK now requires people seeking British citizenship to demonstrate
that they have at least ESOL Entry Level 3 from the national
"skills for life" curriculum (strange distinction, after all we
hardly need "skills for death"). Exam boards now dutifully provide
ESOL qualifications that seem to have eclipsed the old EFL
certificates, making English as a foreign language somehow less
relevant.
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Thinkpad So have EFL and TEFL lost status? Not exactly, but they imply
the use of English in international situations, perhaps among
non-native speakers. They still get a look in, but to teach English
as a "foreign" language requires different emphases. For example,
TESOL would require the teacher to concentrate on situations and
contexts that the learners would meet in everyday life in an
Anglophone country. TEFL, on the other hand, suggests an
orientation towards travel and global situations. I don't dispute
that these distinctions have their uses but the trouble is that you
can see the potential for all sorts of new acronyms on the horizon.
When we will start to teach EIL (English as an international
language) or EIB (English for international business)? I'd happily
settle for good, old-fashioned ELT (English language teaching).
Catalogue: Business | Careers
Title: An Acronym By Any Other Name By: Brenda Townsend Hall
According to the indictment, Jones would steal various IBM and Penguin computer servers from Verisign's warehouse in Virginia and sell them to Johnson. Johnson would then sell the servers to several individuals, who would sometimes place them for sale on eBay. As a result of this scheme, the indictment alleges that Jones and Johnson caused Verisign to lose more than $120, 000 worth of computer equipment. In the indictment, Jones and Johnson are charged in three counts with causing the interstate transportation of stolen property, namely IBM 330 and 335 servers, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
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