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A distinction is sometimes made between learning in a foreign language setting (learning a language that is not generally spoken in the surrounding community) and a second language setting(learning a language that is spoken in the surrounding community).That is ,Japanese students in an English class in Japan are learning English as a foreign language(EFL )and if those same students were in an English class in the USA they would be learning English as second language (ESL) .In either case the are simply trying to learn another language so the expression second language learning is often used more generally to describe both situations( Yule G. 2006)
francis1897 answered the question on March 8, 2023 at 08:56