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Great list of free tech sites for ESL teachers.

Nice article about foreign language instruction and ESL at this New York high school

I'll be interested to see the book Larry Ferlazzo has co-written - The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide. This is link to an excerpt

Well, this isn't really an ESL issue, but it's very interesting and could be useful in a TESL or Linguistics class...or just for anyone interested in word origins.  

The push of Common Core is strong...and Illinois is a state that has adopted the Common Core standards. This will have an impact of ESL instruction, so we all need to stay on top of this.

You might know about this tool already "Just-the-Word" which, as it says above, is a collocation thesauras concordancer and it creates word clouds. If you haven't seen it, it is certainly worth checking out.

This site offers so much more for the technologically savvy. And for those who have time and want to 'play', may enjoy things like pasting your face onto existing 'cards' on Personalized Flashcards or creating a word collage in Using Word Clouds to Remember Words. Ten sites are provide with instructions to create activities that can augment your curriculum for all students, especially ESL.

Very interesting website...this is just one of the pages with the top 10 teaching methods that work based on evidence. Not an ESL focus but it could be

I discovered this site that has tons of visuals to use for teaching ELLs (or foreign language)...some are multi-frame images which would be great for activities and assessment. Take look if you have a chance.