Four years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention.

You might also be interested in The Best Resources, Articles & Blog Posts For Teachers Of ELLs In 2016 – Part Two

Here are this week’s choices:

Duolingo, everybody’s favorite language-learning tool, unveiled a new feature – the ability for users to create “clubs” so that they can exchange messages and share a “leaderboard” with their friends.  It sounds like it’s having some initial “hiccups,” but I could eventually see it as a useful tool for peer encouragement.

Students, some of them immigrants, write children’s books inspired by their own life’s journeys is from The Washington Post.

Five tips for using authentic video in the classroom is from The British Council and is pretty interesting. I’m adding it to The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL.

This is from 2015, but still interesting: Nine interesting foreign language research findings you may not know about from Language Gym.

ELT Sparks has a nice lesson idea in Most Influential Images. I’m adding it to The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons.

I’ve written several posts about TimeSlips, a program designed to assist dementia patients whose strategy I think is also useful for language-learning.  Here’s a new Voice of America video report on what they do:

I’ve previously written about Kahoot, and it’s on a couple of “Best” lists.  Here are a couple of tweets about a new feature that it has added:

This would be depressing if it happened: