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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


Daily rituals and language learning

May 16, 2018
by Mary Leighton
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What do your days look like? I’ve been reading Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, a book describing the days of famous artists, writers, composers, and thinkers. Apparently the psychologist B.F. Skinner ate cornflakes every morning at the same time. The novelist Toni Morrison squeezed i
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La Viajadora Ridiculosa! Learning Language by Inventing Words

May 03, 2018
by Nicki Benson
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The Importance of Language Play We’ve written many times about the importance of having fun with language, and my recent linguistic adventures have got me thinking about an important aspect of language play: making up words. I often tell my students that when they don’t kn
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Diseño de experiencias de aprendizaje y calidad educativa

April 23, 2018
by Martin Urrutia
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Aventura de D&D
Juegos, diseño y aprendizaje Hace poco retomé los juegos de rol. Efectivamente, Calabozos y Dragones (D&D) ha sido una parte importante de mi vida lúdica durante muchos años, hasta que la adultez y la responsabilidad me llevaron a pasarme el tiempo apagando incendios profesionales
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My Conversations with Canadians

April 05, 2018
by Kathryn Stewart
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Indigenous Perspectives Over the past two years the Province of British Columbia has started to implement a new curriculum for students in Kindergarten to Grade 9. Over the next two years the new curriculum will be implemented for students in high school. This overhaul represents chan
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Language Partners BC Year 3

March 21, 2018
by Mary Leighton
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This is the third year of Language Partners BC, a volunteer run language organization in Vancouver. The project started with an the influx of Syrian refugees in the winter of 2015-2016 and the idea that a partner-based language program might offer connections and solidarity between pe
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The Indigenous Languages of British Columbia

March 08, 2018
by Nicki Benson
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Halkomelem - BC Language Map
Language Love on the West Coast Last month the government of British Columbia announced that their 2018 budget would include $50 million to support Indigenous language revitalization across the province. I’m very excited, of course, as there is more and more support for the work
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Orcas Can Speak

February 12, 2018
by Kathryn Stewart
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Orcas imitate human speech Researchers from institutions in Germany, UK, Spain and Chile published a paper last month on their experiences with an orca whale named Wilkie. Wilkie has been trained to mimic human sounds. Wilkie was exposed to six human sounds including “hello̶
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Instruction Checking

January 25, 2018
by Mary Leighton
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No more “Does that make sense?” This pro tip – or pro reminder – is for anyone teaching and facilitating out there. Do you ever find yourself in front of a group of people, explaining an activity, and then asking something like, “Got it?” “Does that make
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Esperanza Education 2018

January 10, 2018
by Nicki Benson
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New Year, New Focus Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that another year has passed already! 2017 was a great year for our contributors at Esperanza Education – a year of personal and professional growth for all of us. It has been a year of change too, and 2018 brings a
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Aprendizaje estético: decidir sin conocerse

December 13, 2017
by Martin Urrutia
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Narciso, por Caravaggio (1594-96)
“I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist… he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable love… poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point&#
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