It is often a lingua franca of conferences, for example, and many journal articles in fields as diverse as astronomy, child psychology and zoology have English as a kind of default language.

例如，英语经常是各种会议的通用语，天文学、儿童心理学和动物学等领域的许多期刊文章都将英语作为一种默认语言。

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Lucy teaches English as a second language.

露西教作为第二语言的英语。

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The school offers two modules in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, viz. Principles and Methods of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.

该校提供两个模块用于英语作为外语的教学，即语言教学的原理方法和应用语言学。

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The Language Teaching Program,for example, brings teachers of English as a foreign language to work at American colleges and universities.

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What do you think is the most important thing to teach students who learn English as a second language?

你觉得要教那些以英语为第二语言的学生，最重要的是什么？

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Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.

弥尔顿死于1674年，死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。

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And the majority of the kids at the school are ESL, English as a second language.

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Surely the rise of English as a universal second language is good for business?

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Founded in 2004, Oikos offers classes in nursing, music, Asian medicine and English as a second language.

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