“…One of the early attempts to account for systematic variation in the way English is used by speakers in different parts of the world is a tripartite distinction between English as a Native Language (ENL), English as a Second Language (ESL), and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) (Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, & Svartvik, 1985;Conrad, 1996). Based on this classification, Stern (1983), Widdowson (1997Widdowson ( , 2003, McArthur (1998), Nunan and Carter (2001), among many other scholars, have proposed definitions and discussed the importance of these distinctions.…”