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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


Shared Goals in Language Revitalization Programs

July 24, 2017
by Mary Leighton
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What can we consider from community organizing? I have been working this summer as an intern with Where Are Your Keys in the community of St. Paul, Alaska, where a local language team is leading the revitalization of the native language, Unangam Tunuu. The experience has directed my a
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Learning Spanish with My Baby

July 12, 2017
by Nicki Benson
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alfabeto en español
What my two-month-old has taught me in and about the Spanish language In my last post I wrote about my desire to raise my baby in my second language, Spanish. She was born two months ago and so far, so good: I have been speaking to her almost exclusively in Spanish, no matter who else
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Aprendizaje estético: el gusto adquirido

July 04, 2017
by Martin Urrutia
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Las muchas experiencias del café
El aprendizaje del paladar De niño, fui muy complicado para comer. Era usuario frecuente de las largas sentadas a la mesa, con larga mirada de mi madre, para que terminara “todo lo que hay en el plato”. Y no era que no me comiera las zanahorias o el hígado o cualquier otro
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New Slang for Summer

June 19, 2017
by Kathryn Stewart
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Teaching Idioms, Learning Slang Teaching idioms (a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., raining cats and dogs, see the light ) (from Google) is one of the more difficult lessons to teach in English language tea
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Interview with a Multilingual Person: Khelsilem

May 29, 2017
by Mary Leighton
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During my Master of Education program, I read an article in which the author speculated that the future belonged not to monolingual English speakers, but to multilingual people who could better understand and converse with people from different language backgrounds. I keep that in min
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Educación vs escolaridad

May 24, 2017
by Martin Urrutia
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Row of Desks
La historia de la escolaridad Ya hemos hablado en este blog sobre la diferenciación entre dos conceptos largamente distanciados pero fuertemente relacionados como la educación y la escolaridad. A nivel académico, este es un tópico recurrente. La distinción entre escuela y educación es
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Language Learners with Learning Disabilities

April 19, 2017
by Kathryn Stewart
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If your student is struggling with language learning, how do you know if they have a learning disability? This has been one of my challenges teaching high school EAL. It can be very difficult to determine where a language barrier might actually be a learning disability. I have recentl
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Dreaming in other languages

April 03, 2017
by Mary Leighton
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What it means to dream in other languages People sometimes talk about dreaming in a new language as a marker. It marks that the language is somehow now in you, lodged in your brain or your way of being. If your unconscious can access it, well, that’s something. Arabic…nightmares? When
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Raising Children in Your Second Language

March 22, 2017
by Nicki Benson
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  Is it Possible to Raise Children in Your Non-Dominant Language? I am expecting my first baby in early May and, of course, its linguistic future is on my mind. I’ve always planned to raise my children at least bilingually with English and Spanish but, given that I am curre
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¿Cómo escoger un colegio para tus hijos en Lima?

March 09, 2017
by Martin Urrutia
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Colegio Peruano Norteamericano Abraham Lincoln
Colegio Peruano Norteamericano Abraham Lincoln, tomado de http://www.abrahamlincoln.edu.pe/es/ Educación de oferta y demanda En el Perú, la elección de un colegio para tus hijos implica muchas dificultades. Yo no lo he experimentado como padre, sino como docente que es consultado cada
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