Tutorial: Twitter 101

Do you use Twitter to help you learn English? Other uses? Still don't get Twitter? This micro-blogging network is a useful tool for finding out what's going on with the people and things that matter to you the most. It is also a good learning tool. More and more learners are using Twitter in the classroom and learning on their own. With this simple and engaging tutorial, you can learn various ways to use Twitter.

Free Twitter 101 Tutorial at GCFLearnFree.org

ESL/Twitter Links

♦ Learn English on Twitter

♦ Twitter Tips for ESL Users

♦ How to Use Twitter with an ESL Group

♦ Using Twitter as an ESL Resource

♦ ESL Tech ~ Everyone's all a-Twitter

♦ Larry Ferlazo ~ Twitter Chats for ESL Teachers (& How to Participate)

♦ Larry Ferlazo ~ Best Resources for Beginning to Learn What Twitter is About

♦ Teaching ESL to Adults ~ How Twitter Helps ESL Students

♦ ESL Daily ~ 10 Tips to Twitter in theEFL Class

Want more? Just search the #ESL hashtag

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Review: Educating Emergent Bilinguals

 Not much about computers or writing but definitely about language learning.

reviewed by Lynn Zimmerman — January 04, 2011

Title: Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Language Learners. Search for book at Amazon.com
Author(s): Ofelia Garcia and Jo Anne Kleifgen
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 0807751138, Pages: 192, Year: 2010  

For Garcia and Kleifgen the question: What’s in a name? is more than an existential question. In their book, Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Language Learners, they assert that how the question is answered not only gives a different meaning to the experience of people who are labeled in various ways as learners of English, but also has profound implications for educational policies and practices that impact them. Rather than using the “deficit model” of naming which has been the norm in the education of non-English speaking learners, Garcia and Kleifgen suggest calling them “emergent bilinguals.” This critical act of “re-naming” shifts the focus to the knowledge that they have and to the possibilities of bilingualism instead of focusing on their lack of English and the narrow goal of learning English.