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Six 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.

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Here are this week’s choices:

Clarkston, Ga., known for welcoming refugees, feels strain from influx of Afghans is from The Washington Post.

Appropriate Beginning Reading Instruction for English Learners? is by Timothy Shanahan. It’s an older post that has been updated. I’m adding it to The Best Articles & Sites For Teachers & Students To Learn About Phonics.

I’ve shared a lot in the past about browser-based video games that have written “walkthroughs.”  Students then play the games and have to follow those written directions in order to “win.”  They have always been super high-interest activities.  Unfortunately, though, many of the games I’ve used in the past were created by Flash and are no longer supported by most browsers.  There are many new ones that would work, like Six Cats Under, but people don’t write out walkthroughs anymore – they just show them in videos. So, unless you know of someplace where they are still providing written walkthroughs, this activity will become a thing of the past unless any of my peer tutors are gamers and willing to watch videos and write out the instructions.

Why Biden is struggling to revive the US refugee program is from Vox. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day.

This could be a fun video to show to students and then have them talk and write about what they saw:

This does not seem like a wise way to teach languages: