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:

How States Can Reinforce English Learners’ Civil Rights is from New America.

How Duolingo Aims to Diversify Beyond Language Learning is from The Harvard Business Review.

Do Teachers’ Political Beliefs Shape Outcomes for English Learners? is from Ed Week.

What makes certain L2 learners better monitors of their writing than others? – Part 1: Cognitive and affective factors identified by research is from The Language Gym.

LinkedIn has a game called Pinpoint. It shows you one word, and give you an opportunity to guess what category you have in mind. You guess it, and if it’s incorrect it will then show you another word. Most ELL teachers do a category game with students where the teacher gives them a category, and then students have to write down items in it. This Pinpoint “take” on categories would be a fun new kind of category version to play in class. I’m adding this info to The Best Ideas For Using Games In The ESL/EFL/ELL Classroom.

ELLs could watch this video and then write and talk about what they saw. It could also provoke an interesting discussion about school:

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Using PBL to Support Young English Learners is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING HOW TO USE PROJECT-BASED LEARNING & PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING IN YOUR CLASSROOM.