ESOL

[ ee-sawl, es-uhl ]

noun

1. English for speakers of other languages: a field of language training including EFL and ESL.

Example Sentences

Although many consider such students among the neediest in Montgomery County’s school system, advocates and educators have raised increasing concern about how they will be served as the district restructures its division of ESOL, or English for speakers of other languages.

From Washington Post

Called Shared Journeys, the workshops in English for Speakers of Other Languages, or ESOL, encourage participants to imagine life in the tenement and to share and compare their own experiences to those of the early Irish, Italian, Jewish and German immigrants.

From Washington Times

Called Shared Journeys, the workshops in English for Speakers of Other Languages, or ESOL, encourage participants to imagine life in the tenement and to share and compare their own experiences to those of the early Irish, Italian, Jewish and German immigrants.

From Washington Times

The government expects immigrants to reach "ESOL Entry 3" or "B1 level", also called "Intermediate 1" in Scotland, before they can be granted citizenship.

From BBC

As a result, schools and districts must divert funding once used for hiring teachers, providing academic support for ESE, ESOL, and struggling students, offering summer learning programs, maintaining school facilities, training teachers, establishing competitive salaries to attract and keep good teachers, etc. in order to meet excessively strict testing requirements.

From Washington Post