What is "English"?

 

Do you teach in a bilingual school? Are you sure? What is bilingual? Is your school "bilingual" if you offer EFL examinations (Flyers, B2 First, TOEFL, Trinity)? What about EMI? Immersion? E1L, E2L (aka "ESL"), EFL? 

Why do so many programmes call themselves ESL? Are they? Is someone "bilingal" with a CEFR-B2 level in EFL (as opposed to E2L or C1)?

Are there structural differences EFL : E2L : E1L? Methodological? What about methodologies? Evaluation? Materials?

Did Shakespeare write in Old English, Middle English or Modern English?

What is "correct" English? Or "standard" English"? Or Microsoft / Google English?

What is "English"? Or "Englishes"?

How is any of this important?

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