SLAAlcantaraCarinaSpring19

For my third blog I decided to interview Mrs. Delgado who is a teacher at my campus that is a part of the quad I am. Mrs. Delgado teaches 4 th grade reading, this is her first-year teaching fourth grade, but she has taught reading for 13 years now. Her homeroom class is our bilingual group. She is an ELL teacher and she is an ELL herself. Mrs. Delgado stated that the most challenging part ELL students have to go through is having the vocabulary necessary to develop their ideas. It can become challenging for students to communicate with their peers if they don’t have the vocabulary needed. Mrs. Delgado also talked about how it is important for ELL students to feel like they can relate to their teacher. Therefore, being an ELL herself, she finds it to be a benefit for her to be able to relate to them and understand where they are lacking. Our bilingual group is mostly Hispanic students, which means their first language is Spanish. Because Mrs. Delgado speaks the language, she al...

For this blog I decided to interview my best friend, Lily, she is an English Language Learner who learned the language at a young age. We have been best friends since high school. During this interview, I actually learned a lot about her journey with learning a new language that I did not know. Lily grew up speaking dominantly Spanish. She was raised in a Spanish speaking house hold. It wasn't until she was four years old when she started school when she was exposed to English.  According to Ortega, "the individuals learning an additional language are still young children when they start acquiring the L2” (Ortega, 2013, 4) In this case, that is what happened. Of course, when she went to the stores with her parents, she would hear other people speak English, but she did not start learning it until she actually started school. She mentioned that in school she would surround herself around kids who spoke Spanish just like her, I imagine it made her feel more comfortable si...