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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.

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Here are this week’s choices:

The Evolution of Terms Describing English Learners: An ELL Glossary is from Ed Week.

UC Davis Study: teens struggle in multicultural environments without consistent, positive messaging about other cultures is from Ed Source.

Making Assessments More Equitable for Multilingual Learners is by Tan Huynh.

ELLs could watch this short video and then talk/write about what they saw:

Beat the heat -Jigsaw lesson idea is from The TEFL Zone. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE JIGSAW INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY.

Here’s another video to show ELLs and have them talk and write about what they saw:

Sentence Builders looks like a great site if you teach a language other than English. I’m adding it to THE BEST MULTILINGUAL & BILINGUAL SITES FOR LEARNING ENGLISH & OTHER LANGUAGES.

Many Fresno Unified students spend years becoming fluent in English. Why that’s a problem is from The Fresno Bee.