I joined the online teacher community Tesol.  

It is a professional online community for educators with an emphasis on international education in the field of English.  This community offers an online 

• Career center
• Career development
• Live learning center
• Online courses
• Advocacy action center
• Journal
• Bookstore
• Bulletin, and much more! 

The first article that I read and interacted with was Providing a Sounding Board for Second Language Writers.  

This article addresses the challenges ESL students and teachers face when encountering the need to write papers.  Where ESL students find it arduous to write in a second language, the educators find it equally challenging to create new approaches to the task of writing that excites and delights their students.  

Enter the primary topic of this article:   

SOUND BOARDS.

ESL students may need to see prefabricated phrases, ideas, etc. in order to effectively produce sentences that convey their thoughts.  They can look upon example work of other students, use a phrase-searching activity in which clusters of words and sentences are presented and they fill in blanks or match accordingly.  These are templates of sentences, sentence structures, phrases, ideas, etc. that the students can work with to navigate through the English language with which they will be writing, and lending them the tools to create a piece of work in the language of their future readers.