English as a second or foreign language is the teaching and learning of English by people whose first language is not English. The field includes teaching English as a foreign language in countries wh
English classes in Moscow in 1964
Learning English in a primary school in rural Thailand
Young Jayaji Rao Sindhia, Maharaja of Gwalior, studying English, 1846
Non-native pronunciations of English result from the common linguistic phenomenon in which non-native speakers of any language tend to transfer the intonation, phonological processes and pronunciation
This gift shop in Japan spells the English word "decoration" as decolation, as a result of the well-attested difficulty of Japanese speakers in distinguishing English ⟨l⟩ and ⟨r⟩ sounds.