English as a second language

Quality:

English as a second or foreign language - use of English by speakers with different native languages. Article “English as a second language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 31.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “English as a second language” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (623^rd place) and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “English as a second language”, its content was written by 55 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2285^th place) and edited by 924 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1755 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1 in October 2003
• Global: #6896 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #168 in August 2008
• Global: #38378 in May 2013

There are 13 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) English as a second or foreign language		77.364
2	Azerbaijani (az) İngilis dili ikinci və ya xarici dil kimi		41.788
3	Turkish (tr) Yabancı dil olarak İngilizce eğitimi		39.9969
4	Chinese (zh) 以英語為第二語言或外語		37.5406
5	Simple English (simple) English as a second language		31.2615
6	Finnish (fi) Englannin kielen opetus vieraana kielenä		25.0092
7	Spanish (es) Inglés como segunda lengua		20.017
8	Arabic (ar) الإنجليزية لغة ثانية		18.0199
9	Persian (fa) انگلیسی به عنوان زبان دوم یا خارجی		17.3321
10	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa kedua		14.4423

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) English as a second or foreign language		5 083 892
2	Chinese (zh) 以英語為第二語言或外語		142 764
3	Simple English (simple) English as a second language		99 730
4	Turkish (tr) Yabancı dil olarak İngilizce eğitimi		90 728
5	Arabic (ar) الإنجليزية لغة ثانية		54 254
6	German (de) Englisch als Zweitsprache		38 685
7	Korean (ko) 제2언어 또는 외국어로서의 영어		17 096
8	Spanish (es) Inglés como segunda lengua		16 666
9	Tamil (ta) இரண்டாம் மொழியாக ஆங்கிலம்		3 211
10	Persian (fa) انگلیسی به عنوان زبان دوم یا خارجی		1 834

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) English as a second or foreign language		7 143
2	Chinese (zh) 以英語為第二語言或外語		312
3	Simple English (simple) English as a second language		303
4	Spanish (es) Inglés como segunda lengua		105
5	German (de) Englisch als Zweitsprache		83
6	Turkish (tr) Yabancı dil olarak İngilizce eğitimi		70
7	Persian (fa) انگلیسی به عنوان زبان دوم یا خارجی		28
8	Korean (ko) 제2언어 또는 외국어로서의 영어		28
9	Finnish (fi) Englannin kielen opetus vieraana kielenä		14
10	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa kedua		11

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) English as a second or foreign language		733
2	Simple English (simple) English as a second language		55
3	Arabic (ar) الإنجليزية لغة ثانية		33
4	Turkish (tr) Yabancı dil olarak İngilizce eğitimi		30
5	German (de) Englisch als Zweitsprache		25
6	Chinese (zh) 以英語為第二語言或外語		25
7	Spanish (es) Inglés como segunda lengua		8
8	Persian (fa) انگلیسی به عنوان زبان دوم یا خارجی		3
9	Finnish (fi) Englannin kielen opetus vieraana kielenä		3
10	Korean (ko) 제2언어 또는 외국어로서의 영어		3

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) English as a second or foreign language		4
2	Arabic (ar) الإنجليزية لغة ثانية		2
3	Simple English (simple) English as a second language		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) İngilis dili ikinci və ya xarici dil kimi		0
5	German (de) Englisch als Zweitsprache		0
6	Spanish (es) Inglés como segunda lengua		0
7	Persian (fa) انگلیسی به عنوان زبان دوم یا خارجی		0
8	Finnish (fi) Englannin kielen opetus vieraana kielenä		0
9	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa kedua		0
10	Korean (ko) 제2언어 또는 외국어로서의 영어		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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