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Help me to understand it... Putting it concrete: English lessons in Australia for foreigners, in daily or weekly lessons, with no tests are ESL. English lessons in a Brazilian classroom for Brazilians students are EFL. Is that right? What about English lessons in Australia preparing for tests? Sorry if this is silly...

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English lessons in Australia for foreigners, in daily or weekly lessons, with no tests are ESL.

right.

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English lessons in a Brazilian classroom for Brazilians students are EFL.

right.

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What about English lessons in Australia preparing for tests?

still ESL.

You can have testing in both environments. It's really the environment and the students daily need for/use of the language that defines ESL or EFL. You can have ESL classes in an EFL environment like the international school in Tokyo example.