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Language, Learning, and Culture

Welcome to the Esperanza Education blog! Here you will find regular posts from our teachers that explore diverse aspects of language, learning, and culture. We share our experiences as language learners and teachers, tips and resources for learning specific languages, travel and cultural advice, and more. We are a diverse group, each with our own interests and background, so expect to find an eclectic selection of entries. Enjoy! Disfruta! Amusez-vous! Divirta-se! Tadını çıkar! !التمتع به


Supporting language learners in conversation

February 14, 2020
by Mary Leighton
additional language, language exchange, language learning
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Being a good conversation partner is about more than just listening and responding - it's about making choices based on a range of important factors.
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Esperanza Education 2020

January 09, 2020
by Nicki Benson
collaboration, consulting
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It's a new year and a new decade! Here's a recap of 2019, including some of our favourite posts, and some of our plans for 2020.
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Parentese and Baby Talk

November 21, 2019
by Kathryn Stewart
child development, language learning, language play
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Parentese and Infant Led Communication Adults that spend time with young children will notice a difference in the way that they talk to other adults and the way that they talk to babies. Adults draw out and exaggerate words, their pitch is higher and speech is slower and emphasized. W
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Respect and Reconciliation: A New Standard for BC Teachers

October 01, 2019
by Mary Leighton
Canada, indigenous, public education
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Recognizing First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada On June 19th, 2019, a new professional standard came into effect for K-12 public school teachers in British Columbia. This change may have been off the radar for many, but it impacts 72,000 teachers and hundreds of thousands of stud
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My Bilingual Baby’s English: 27 Months

August 13, 2019
by Nicki Benson
bilingual children, home learning, niños bilingües
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Linguistic Leaps Since my last post, my daughter’s language has taken a huge leap. I don’t plan to provide quarterly updates on her language development, but so much has changed in the last 3 months that I felt compelled to share again. Almost everything I wrote about the
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Infant Sign Language

June 20, 2019
by Kathryn Stewart
communication, infant, sign language
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How Small Children Communicate: A few weeks ago I spent time with a friend’s 15 month old daughter. She has learned some baby sign language recently, specifically the sign for “done”. What this has translated to is, when she is put into her high chair (and she doesn&
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Azerbaijani vs. Turkish

May 16, 2019
by Mary Leighton
communication, self-directed learning, travel
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New country, new language I crossed in the border into the Autonomous Province of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan with curiosity. How much would my intermediate level of Turkish help me to read, understand, and communicate? Azerbaijani, also known as Azeri, and Turkish are from the same family
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My Bilingual Baby’s Spanish: 2 Years Old

April 10, 2019
by Nicki Benson
bilingual children, home learning, niños bilingües
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Toddler on beach
The Linguistic Quirks of a Spanish-Speaking Toddler The last time I wrote about raising my baby in my second language, Spanish, she was only 2 months old. I can’t believe that in just a few weeks she will be 2 YEARS old!! By age 1 she had many one-syllable words, and by 15 month
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Historical Thinking and Reconciliation

March 18, 2019
by Kathryn Stewart
historical thinking, museums, truth and reconciliation
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Historical Thinking: Last month I attended the Historical Thinking Winter Institute at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. The institute was designed for history / social studies educators and museum curators to look at historical thinking and how we teach about the past. The Royal BC Mu
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Where are the language memoirs?

February 11, 2019
by Mary Leighton
living abroad, reading, writing
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A life-changing experience Learning a new language changes you. Your brain shifts as you begin to think and perceive in a new way. Research shows that people even express personality differently. With this in mind, I wonder why language memoirs are not more popular. After all, many pe
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