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.

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In addition, look for our latest book on teaching ELLs, The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox 2.0.

Here are this week’s choices:

A STRATEGY TO HELP MLs with SENTENCE TRANSITIONS

Tan Huynh shares an effective, easy-to-implement process to teach multilinguals how to organize academic writing by building sentence-by-sentence transitions. #edusky #multilinguals @larryferlazzo.bsky.social

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— MiddleWeb (@middleweb.bsky.social) March 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM

For our #MLs to acquire academic English, we’ve got to ensure they’re actually using the words & phrases about which they’re learning. This is easier than you might think. All we have to do is ask. @NancyMotleyTRTW calls it targeting the talk. https://t.co/yTFDXjYxqv pic.twitter.com/u8HBF6qFdo

— Seidlitz Education (@Seidlitz_Ed) March 5, 2025

NEW: A STRATEGY TO HELP MLs with SENTENCE TRANSITIONS.@TanKHuynh shares an effective, easy-to-implement process to teach multilinguals how to organize academic writing by building sentence-by-sentence transitions. #ellchat #ELLs #ELs #multilingualshttps://t.co/EroCCeIjMa pic.twitter.com/HjfVVi2J0R

— MiddleWeb (@middleweb) March 4, 2025

Why the input we give our learners must be 95 to 98% comprehensible https://t.co/UDUPIiVFlB

— Dr Gianfranco Conti (@gianfrancocont9) March 3, 2025

The VOA Learning Challenge is a decent online English assessment.  I’m adding it to The Best Free Online Tools For ELLs To Use For Assessing Their Language-Level.

Here are two videos ELLs can watch and then talk/write about what they saw:

The Pros and Cons of Teaching Language by Topics According to Research is an excellent post from The Language Gym.

Federal Push for English-Only Services Worries Educators, Advocates is from Ed Week.