No, it's not. Its very different in almost every way you can imagine, from motivation to lesson plans to results. Speak to anyone who has taught ESL and EFL and they will tell you how much easier ESL is. ESL is a breeze by comparison.Marmite wrote:Does it really matter? It's still teaching English, isn't it? Same skills, same techniques etc.vladimir wrote:FR, I think we got our wires crossed.
They advertise the jobs as ESL, but technically it's EFL. ESL applies to situations such as Mexicans studying English in America. It boils down to what most of the people around you are speaking, iirc.
So any SE Asian in their own country (except maybe in Singapore) is probably studying EFL.
It's usually advertised as ESL simply because the schools placing the ad don't have a clue, and misuse has led to an incorrect merging of the terms.
Higher starter levels or at least faster progression, more English spoken in class, easier to find materials and start activities, , better pay for teachers, the list goes on.