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Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
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 all my Best lists on teaching ELLs. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In addition, look for our latest book on teaching ELLs, The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox 2.0. Here are this week’s choices: I’m adding this video to The Best Resources For Using “If This Animal Or Image Could Talk” Lesson Idea In Class:
Here are some recent research studies that are worth reviewing: Empowering ESL Learners: Crafting Effective Strategies for Comprehension Enhancement
AmgiDex is a nice and simple free tool for learning languages (not English, though). I’m adding it to The Best Multilingual & Bilingual Sites For Learning English & Other Languages. Model English Learner Policy for School Boards is from New America. How States Can Reinforce English Learners’ Civil Rights is from New America. ELLs could watch this video and talk/write about what they saw:  Best recording – enhancing reading aloud and metacognition through a fully student-centred task is from The Language Gym. A 13-year longitudinal study of students who enter kindergarten as English learners: early vs. late reclassified fluent English learners is sort of a weird paper. It suggests that the actual reclassification of ELLs as English-proficient younger rather than older is the cause of increased academic achievement, without providing proof that it’s anything but correlation. Do better, researchers! I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The Ins & Outs Of Reclassifying ELLs. Helping EFL/ESL Students Develop Basic Conversation Skills is a useful paper. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Developing English Conversational Skills.      Sentences Of The Week geralt / Pixabay
I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful. Each week, I highlight several sentences, with links to their sources, that I find interesting/concerning/useful. And they may, or may not, be directly connected to education. I may also include my own comments or related links. This regular post will join my other regular ones on teaching ELLs, education policy, Artificial Intelligence, infographics, and Pinterest highlights, not to mention sharing of my regular Education Week posts. Here are this week’s sentences: The state education agency estimates that the population of English learners in Massachusetts schools has dropped by 7,000 since 2024. There is a morality to verbs, especially in political speech. There’s a growing body of research showing that classroom environments can create a sense of belonging, and that should also guide what you include in your classroom. The longer the lesson—we looked at a 10-minute versus a 30-minute instructional block, for example—the less students were on task. Students in Utah will soon be studying Bible passages in social studies classes after the legislature passed a new bill to that end, signed into law this week by Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican. When “we love other persons or serve causes other than ourselves,” Dr. Viktor Frankl said in a 1975 lecture, “we actualize ourselves by way of a side effect.” A literacy advocate is running as a Pencil in the race for Oregon governor to get candidates talking about education issues in the state. “AI is going to help,” said Khan of this reimagined Khan Academy. “But I think our biggest lever is really investing in the human systems.” If you want students (really anyone) to put effort into learning, then you must center their interests, goals, values and perspectives so they can endorse doing what is asked of them and, in turn, regulate their own behavior. Analyzing results of student and teacher surveys, the research team found that attendance was strongly connected to relationships between peers and teachers, students finding value and meaning in classes, a sense of safety and teacher-parent relationships. If this was victory, I’d hate to see what failure looks like. So the war stands as a strategic failure and a moral calamity. For the second year in a row, Trump is proposing to zero out longstanding federal education programs that support educators’ professional development (currently $2.2 billion a year), services for English learners ($890 million), academic enrichment and student supports ($1.4 billion), before- and after-school programs ($1.3 billion), rural schools ($220 million), and support for students experiencing homelessness ($129 million).
 “Many Teachers Have Novels Living Inside. Here’s How to Write Them”Many Teachers Have Novels Living Inside. Here’s How to Write Them is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns. How do I start to write a novel? How do I get it published? Look here for those answers and more. Here are some excerpts:
 National Library Week Is From April 19th-25th – Here Are Learning & Teaching Resources
National Library Week is April 19th- 25th. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Teach ELL’s About Libraries.  Research Studies Of The Week Mohamed_hassan / Pixabay I often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature. You can see all my “Best” lists related to education research here. Here are some new useful studies (and related resources): Peer relationships and student motivation: Discussion of methodological approaches is a new study that doesn’t actually say much about the impact of peer relationships on student motivation, but it does identify several other studies that do. In the past, I’ve found it difficult to find research on this topic. Evidence-Based Approaches to Designing Effective Career and Technical Education Programs is from Ed Research For Action. The Impact of Gamification on Student Engagement An International Literature Review is a new study. I’m adding it to The Best Posts On “Gamification” In Education — Help Me Find More. The Impact of Social and Emotional Learning Programs Among African American Middle School Males Community-Connected Redesign at Fremont High School is from The Learning Policy Institute. Sleep duration and subject-specific academic performance among adolescents in China is from Nature. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Helping Teens Learn About The Importance Of Sleep. Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains is from The Guardian. I’m adding it to The Best Resources About Wealth & Income Inequality .  More Recent Articles
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