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Eight 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 2021.
Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners.
In addition, look for our book on teaching ELLs, which was published in the Spring of 2018 and learn about our new book.
Here are this week’s choices:
ELL students could watch this video and write/talk about what they saw:
Effects of educational technology on reading achievement for Chinese K-12 English second language learners: A meta-analysis is a new study. I’m adding it to The Best Research Available On The Use Of Technology In Schools and to The Best Sources For Ideas On How To Use Technology With English Language Learners.
Carving out space for mother tongues* in the YL classroom is from IATEFL. I’m adding it to The Best Resources Explaining Why We Need To Support The Home Language Of ELLs.
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What you do AFTER you co-create text is key. Here are 5 ideas for how to repurpose that text with #Newcomers.
Thx to everyone who is listening! 🎧#BoostingAchievement #SLIFE #SIFE #MLLs #BeyondLanguageExperienceApproach pic.twitter.com/lHtZX08N2R— Dr. Carol Salva (@DrCarolSalva) March 6, 2023
Years ago, I showed a clip to ELL Newcomers as part of the Language Experience Approach. The principal came in to observe. I asked students what they saw. First student to speak said, “The man licked the ball.”
Needless to say, the principal looked at me a bit oddly https://t.co/W3BfiS0dZ9
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) March 6, 2023
She Drew on Her Love of Soccer and Dolly Parton to Create Schools for Immigrants is from Ed Week.
“Schools frame your primary or home language in pejorative terms as something that’s not useful as a resource. It’s … framed as something that is harmful, and that you need to lose in order to learn English.” – Dr. Ramon Martinez, @StanfordEd https://t.co/8GcLab7cJy
— Antero Garcia (@anterobot) March 9, 2023
I visited PS 24 in Sunset Park in Brooklyn recently, which has received asylum seeking students and has a dual language program in English and Spanish. https://t.co/x5vwZsiuz2
— Madina Touré (@madinatoure) March 9, 2023
NEW: A Lesson Template That Works for All Students. #mschat @Larryferlazzo #MLs #ELs
This lesson plan template serves the needs of both multilinguals & non-MLs in any subject & assures the planning is highly structured & intentional, writes @TanKHuynh.https://t.co/10E3TtoUxW pic.twitter.com/52Ly5yyHbl
— MiddleWeb (@middleweb) March 8, 2023
I’m adding this tweet to THE BEST STRATEGIES FOR “ENGINEERING” TEXT SO THAT IT’S MORE ACCESSIBLE TO ELLS:
This is text engineering:
Thanks, @MrsGill_ https://t.co/4Bu94qwpF1
— Tan K Huynh (he/his) 🇱🇦🇺🇸🏳️🌈 (@TanKHuynh) March 8, 2023
Governor Lamont Proposes Establishing the English Learners’ Bill of Rights To Safeguard the Provision of Bilingual Education is from Connecticut.
Listen to @sawsan24 sharing her reporting on how two San Juan Unified schools are going well beyond a classroom to find ways to engage hundreds of families– many of whom are recent refugees– who don’t speak English.@CapRadioInsight ⬇️https://t.co/cjLigXlmtc
— Vicki Gonzalez (@VickiLGonzalez) March 7, 2023
They arrived at an airport a couple of miles from our school. How can DeSantis look at himself in the mirror after treating refugees like this? https://t.co/BVZDEuTGzO
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) June 5, 2023
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