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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):
The five-year itch: Motivational factors that influence the career decisions of early career teachers in England is from Tips For Teachers.
Summer School Can Boost Learning Gains—Even When Programs Aren’t Perfect is from Ed Week.      This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom geralt / Pixabay
At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM: Enhancing Speaking Proficiency through AI-Based Tools: An Experimental Study of English Language Learners at Higher Secondary Level is a study that finds positive uses in students using TalkPal.AI. Qzlly lets you create assessments that can be tracked. It has a pretty good free plan. MathBlast is for math worksheets. Canary is an app that lets you “Learn languages through Music. Practice with People.” Color Craft is yet another coloring page generator. Prosody looks like an interesting language-learning tool with a decent free plan, as is Canonically.
3 Ways to Use MagicSchool to Support English Language Learners is from Edutopia. This next resource comes from Wonder Tools: Sophisticated image editing with AI usually requires careful prompting. What I like about Leonardo AI’s new Blueprints feature is that you can just upload an image and pick from dozens of styles, without knowing what words to use in a prompt. You can transform boring or sloppy headshots into creative images. Here’s an experiment with one of my headshots, and another. I’m adding this video to The Best Resources For Creating Infographics:   The Best Resources About Cognates
I realized that I had never created a “Best” list about cognates. Here goes: Cognates: their Power, Pitfalls and Untapped Potential and implications for the classroom is from The Language Gym. Teaching Tip: Cognates are Everywhere! Introducing Cognates to Language Learners (thanks to Anabel Gonzalez)
A CASE FOR TEACHING WITH COGNATES is from The Learning Agency. Here’s a list of Spanish-English false cognates. 50+ Most Popular English-Spanish Cognates and False Cognates
This is just a beginning!  The “Best” Lists Of Common Mistakes ELL Teachers Make & What They Should Do, Instead u_7x3atxgugk / Pixabay
Teachers have no shortage of mistakes they make, including teachers of ELLs. I’m not sure that I agree with all the ones listed in the resources on this list, but I do with many of them: Before the New Term Begins: Twelve Research-Backed Pitfalls NOVICE MFL Teachers Should Avoid is from The Language Gym. This is a series from my Ed Week column: Nine Mistakes Educators Make When Teaching English-Language Learners 12 Common Mistakes Made by Teachers of English-Language Learners Don’t Make Assumptions About Your ELL Students Teachers Must Create Ways ELL ‘Students Can Show Us What They Know’ Teachers With ‘Deficit Perspectives’ Do Not Help English-Language Learners  Teaching ESL: 7 Common Mistakes That English Teachers Make is from Jeff Davis. 7 Common Mistakes Every ESL Teacher Makes is from ESL Lab. 5 Common Mistakes English Teachers Make (and How to Avoid Them) is from ESL Base. 5 Signs A Teacher Isn’t Truly Teaching is from David Deubelbeiss.   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: Adapting to Changes in California’s English Learner Population is from PPIC. Here are two videos that ELLs could watch and then talk/write about what they saw:   Research in brief: Harnessing the translanguaging corriente is from ELT Planning. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT TRANSLANGUAGING. Meet the researcher using sass and social media to transform bilingual education is from Ed Source. Thousands More English Learners Will Soon Be Taking a Popular Language Exam is from Ed Week.
I’m adding this video to The Best Resources For Using “If This Animal Or Image Could Talk” Lesson Idea In Class:  I’m adding this to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT TRANSLANGUAGING: I’m adding this video to The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons: 
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