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I interviewed a second-year bilingual math teacher for my blog 3 entry. When I asked about what motivated her students in the classroom. She talked about how making the content easily relatable to their lives, made it more interesting to them. In the text, Orientation refers to reasons for wanting to learn the second language. One of the reasons is knowledge; so, the language learner wants to become a more knowledgeable person. I think that this could apply to Ms. Ramirez’s students because they want to become better in their second language so that they can become more knowledgeable in math. Also for the students who are new arrivals Ms. Ramirez told me outside of the interview that they tend to be self-conscious for themselves and push to learn English because they want to be able to fit in with the rest of the students who speak English (Ortega, . This also fits with the other orientation of Integrativeness, which is where the second language learner has a genuine desire to becom...