if one seat is remaining for admission.why we will give it to you?

Your potential as a student and then as a graduate.

BTW, if you can't understand the admissions question, it might tell you something about how things will be at the college. Not that the two are 100% related (they're not), but if this is so hard to understand, then you might want to reconsider where you're applying.

Note: if you are an ESL student, and I imagine you are, see if you can apply in your native language or at least get that as a consideration. Be prepared to spend part of your tuition money on learning English, even if you have already been to school for it.

An interesting side note, I got scolded for using the term ESL on A2K not too long ago. Good to see others still use it as well.

I've used it from the beginning.

Huh, that's weird. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying ESL. Shrug. People are weird.

'if one seat is remaining for admission.why we will give it to you?"

This is asking you to justify why they should admit you as a student. Suppose there was just one opening available, why should it be given to you?

So you must sell yourself to the admission department at the school. Write a paragraph telling them why you deserve to be admitted.

I mean, I don't think it's offensive to say ESL, but it is imprecise because we don't know whether English is her second language. It's more acceptable to use ESOL and ELL because they don't make that assumption about English language learners.

You can split hairs with the terms "ESOL" and "ELL" as well, though, because native English speakers can be English language learners as well. I'm a native English language speaker and consider myself to be an English language learner as well because I am always learning something about the language that I haven' previously known, or have questions about the language that I look up to learn about. I also speak another language, but ESOL tends to make certain assumptions about people that speak languages other than English that I do not fit.

ESL can be taken to mean English as a second, i.e. "subordinate," language.

I should clarify that I don't think it's wrong to say ESL, just inaccurate sometimes. I still think ELL is the best way of describing non-native learners of English. I'd argue that even though you are still learning about the English language, you've long learned the language. Maybe not mastered it, but certainly learned it.



You can split hairs about this too. What about the Hispanic kids who were born in the US but grew up speaking Spanglish, neither knowing English or Spanish. In those cases, English wouldn't be their second/subordinate language.

It doesn't really matter though! I'm sorry for bringing it up.

U have given me an outstanding answer.but I am confuse here that singing is one of the potential which I posses.if I will write this so how it is related in getting admission there.

It must be very regional/industry specific. We've been using EFL and now EAL instead of ESL for well over a decade now. I removed almost all my ESL tags here as a result of the change in usage.

I like ELL. If we could put new tags on other people's threads, I'd use that in addition to EAL, EFL.

Must be. They exclusively used ESOL at my high school.

It depends on how you use the word "ESL".

I have seen it used as an insult. That isn't nice.

"ESOL" rolls off of the tongue easier and sounds worse. It's close, in that regard, to the area of the body where the sun doesn't shine.

I think is better than politely asking "What is your native language?". That just makes an assumption while telling someone they don't write very well - without having to say what is wrong with what they have written.