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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


Visiting your Local Mosque

February 20, 2017
by Kathryn Stewart
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Language Learning at the Mosque The Ajyal Center in downtown Vancouver is an Islamic center and mosque. This past fall, I provided child care for children at the Ajyal Center during a Arabic / English language exchange through Language Partners BC . Many of the women participating had
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Etymology of Political Terms

February 06, 2017
by Mary Leighton
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Language within a language When I lived in Turkey, I began to learn some political language in Turkish, by capturing vocabulary from conversations, photographing and analyzing election billboards, and talking about political resistance with friends. Now I often wonder what it’s like f
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Liderazgo pedagógico: el director y los aprendizajes

January 23, 2017
by Martin Urrutia
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Estudiantes peruanos de colegios de alto rendimiento
El director y la administración Un estudio sobre el rol del director en la escuela peruana, realizado por Silvana Freire y Alejandra Miranda para GRADE (Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo), indicó que la mayoría de directores reconocen que invierten la mayor parte de su tiempo en la
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Values-Driven Language Learning

January 11, 2017
by Nicki Benson
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Nicki on a mountain
Starting Out Right for Sustained Language Learning Recently I watched my friend, clinical counsellor Elana Sures, talk about values-driven goal setting during a Breakfast Television spot about New Year’s resolutions. She spoke about the importance of focussing on our values and
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December Traditions from Around the World

December 20, 2016
by Kathryn Stewart
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December Traditions from Around the World This year I started working at an international school in Vancouver. In September the Mexican students celebrated Mexican Independence day. At around the same time, students from China celebrated the Harvest Festival. The holiday celebrations
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Let’s talk about Mongolian

December 12, 2016
by Mary Leighton
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The language of Genghis Khan I have been reading and loving a biography of Genghis Khan that came out in 2015 by Frank McLynn. Did you know that Mongols tamed snow leopards and used them for hunting? And that they fetishized small noses? And that Genghis Khan, when he was about thirte
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The 11 Official Languages of South Africa

December 05, 2016
by Nicki Benson
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How language sparked a revolution Last month I visited South Africa where my parents and grandparents were born, and many family members still live. My parents left South Africa in the early 1970s because they didn’t want to raise children in an apartheid state. In 1948, the Sou
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Retos del liderazgo educativo

November 28, 2016
by Martin Urrutia
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Docentes y estudiantes de la escuela peruana
¿Qué liderazgo se busca en la escuela? El tema del liderazgo educativo está en las agendas de muchos países a nivel de creación de políticas nacionales desde hace ya más de una década. La investigación muestra, desde los años 80, una relación directa entre el liderazgo y el logro de a
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Teaching During Trump

November 21, 2016
by Kathryn Stewart
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What does social justice teaching look like now? The day after the US election results, I sat in my Social Studies 9 classroom and wrote an email to… myself? my best friend? the future? I just needed to get it down, and I’d like to share it with a wider audience. What am I
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A ‘seahorse’ in any language?

November 15, 2016
by Mary Leighton
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Is a seahorse a ‘sea’ ‘horse’ in any language? In English, we know that the marine fish with the long snout and the curled tail is called a ‘seahorse’. It makes sense; the shape of the head resembles the those of our familiar land horses. Evidently
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