Have we innovated a new conjunction? Does anyone care if my cousin comes and visits slash stays with us Friday night? I spent all day in the UgLi [library] yesterday writing my French paper slash posting pictures of cats on my sister’s Facebook wall. I went to class slash caught up on
The Question I Always Ask as a Language Learner, and the Importance of Context “¿Me entiendes?” (Do you understand me?) is one of the questions I have asked most frequently to Spanish-speakers around the globe. I really do wonder sometimes. I consider myself fluent in Spanish but I am
An Online Resource Humanising Language Teaching is a wonderful online journal in its 15th year. Free, well-organized, and complete with back editions—what’s not to like? The target audience is the EAL (English as an Additional Language) teacher, specifically the EAL teacher in countri
Procurando uma forma diferente de treinar o seu português? Olha só uma excelente oportunidade! Seguindo a tendência mundial de possibilitar o livre acesso da comunidade ao conteúdo didático produzido pelas comunidades científicas, a Universidade Estadual de Campinas – Unicamp de
One of the best things about teaching is realizing how much you don’t know. Every time I teach I’m asked questions that I don’t know the answer to. Sometimes I simply say that I don’t know. Other times I answer with confidence and then lie awake at night wondering whether I’ve led a s
This is the first of my posts about raising our daughter in a bilingual environment and I have decided to include a Spanish version below to be able to share my experiences with Spanish-speaking parents who would like to raise their children bilingually. I began actually researching h
Esperanza Education aims to provide and foster “progressive” language education. It’s something we pride ourselves on. But what does that mean, you might ask. In my mind, it means that the education is not an end in itself. For example, if I am tutoring someone in English, the learnin
How Language Teachers can Promote Social Change At Esperanza Education, we believe strongly in the importance of bringing together language learning and social justice education. In fact, we believe that this kind of education is important in all aspects of life. But what is social ju
