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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


Estandarizando la escuela: la educación peruana en números

December 21, 2015
by Martin Urrutia
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La educación pública peruana
La educación en el Perú En el Perú, se habla de una necesidad de reformar la educación desde el siglo XIX, poco después del nacimiento de la república. Mientras que la moderna noción de ciudadano, extraída de los principios que motivaron la Revolución Francesa, era aplicada a la joven
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Cinema – Um bom programa para os brasileiros

December 14, 2015
by Yane Brogiollo
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The Second Mother
Sou louca por cinema, como grande parte dos brasileiros. Em São Paulo, minha cidade natal, ir ao cinema é um dos programas mais concorridos. Segundo o site Visite São Paulo a cidade possui 282 salas de cinema. Mas ainda assim, principalmente aos finais de semana, é praticamente imposs
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Discussing Terrorism with Kids

December 09, 2015
by Kathryn Stewart
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Every week in Social Studies we have a current events day. I ask students to bring in a news item to talk about with the class. The past few weeks there has been a lot to talk about. As the days are getting shorter and darker, it’s starting to feel like the world is becoming dar
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Turkish Film Festival Recommendations

November 30, 2015
by Mary Leighton
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The 2015 Vancouver Turkish Film Festival The Vancouver Turkish Film Festival is now 5 years old, and has grown from its modest start in the classrooms of Langara College to its new venue of Vancity Theatre. I remember the inaugural year in 2011, when I caught the great doc, On the Way
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Learning through Place Names

November 23, 2015
by Nicki Benson
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Musqueam Place Names Map
The Musqueam Place Names Map In an earlier post about learning one of Vancouver’s local Indigenous languages, hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, I reflected that if I had learned the original names for the places around me as a child, it might have led to a deeper understanding of our local histor
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Aprender olvidando: la experiencia en el extranjero

November 16, 2015
by Martin Urrutia
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Tortugas mirando Vancouver desde Stanley Park
Vancouver: tres semanas después Hace poco más de tres semanas regresé a mi ciudad después de dos años y dos meses de vivir y estudiar en un lugar diferente. No voy a hablar directamente de grandes choques culturales ni diferencias de ciudades o idiosincrasias. No quiero hablar de eso
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Procurando companhia?

November 09, 2015
by Yane Brogiollo
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Procuranco companhia
Os benefícios de um bom papo Se você não é brasileiro, mas está passando um tempo no Brasil, a estudo ou quem sabe a trabalho, nosso papo de hoje pode ser útil sempre que você se deparar com uma pessoa nativa que desperte o seu interesse. Além de poder praticar o português, a companhi
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Language Teaching With Movies and TV

November 02, 2015
by Kathryn Stewart
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English Language teaching through movies and tv shows: Can we watch a movie? …Can we watch a movie now? During mid-terms and into the half-way point of the course, something has happened. It’s a bit of a slippery slope when you start showing movies in class. After some dis
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Hasta luego! See you later!

October 28, 2015
by Heather Escobar
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It’s been a great two years Sadly, after more than two years of regular posts on the Esperanza Education Language, Learning and Culture blog it is time for me to say hasta luego!  Raising a Bilingual Child Writing for Esperanza Education has given me the opportunity to explore m
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Languages and alphabets of Central Asia

October 26, 2015
by Mary Leighton
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Central Asia Map
A basic linguistic guide across the “stans” History has marched and galloped back and forth across Central Asia – which guide books tend to describe as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikisitan, and Afghanistan – and to which I’ll add Pakistan bec
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