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TESL

abbr.
teaching English as a second language
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TESL

(ˈtɛsəl)
n acronym for
(Education) Teaching (of) English as a Second Language
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TESL

teaching English as a second language.
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Professional learning and networking stories of Canadian TESL practitioners engaged in #LINCchat.
As an example of narrative inquiry as an unbounded activity that can span over time and place, Kong (2017) traced how her own teacher questioning patterns changed over the course of a two-year MA TESL program.
The council quickly created three subcommittees to focus on Curriculum, Policy, and the Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) endorsement.
This TESL class has come to be a life changing class in how I view the world around me and the people in it from the perspective of a foreign person in a new land.
To tesl the penneability for water, the tube is closed at one end w ith a plug; the other end is connected to a vertical column.
The current study attempts to piece together observations and findings from TESL and interpreting disciplines and propose an experiment that investigates how predominant phonemic and prosodic features in non-native English affect the simultaneous interpreter's listening comprehension by examining the resulting decrease in rendition accuracy.
Teachers' Perceptions of a Language Policy: "Teaching LINC)' TESL Canada Journal 15.1:22-37.
Recommendations include that graduate programs in international development explore adding a TESL component to their curriculums--possibly a cognate of a four-week intensive TESL certificate program.
TESL in Ontario, Canada, seems to be on an inauspicious path by having set up non-tariff protectionist measures in an apparent attempt to keep out a multinational TESL workforce, effectively going against the spirit of globalization.
Key words: banal nationalism, TESL, language instruction, identity