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:

Wonderful Words: The Winners of Our 11th Annual 15-Second Vocabulary Video Challenge is from The NY Times Learning Network. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING TO USE THE VIDEO APPS “VINE” & INSTAGRAM.

Learning from Long Shadows appeared in Language Magazine.

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for Newcomer and EL students is from ELLevation.

US Education Department launches review of LAUSD’s English Language Learner programs is from The LAist.

How Schools Can Better Support Teachers of Newcomer Students is from MindShift.

ELL students can watch this video and then talk/write about what they saw:

English Learner Scores Have Been Stuck for Two Decades. What Will It Take to Change? is from Ed Surge.

Have students watch this video and then talk/write about what they saw:

I’m adding this video to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT TRANSLANGUAGING: