Blog Entries

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...

This is my interview with my best friend Alexa ,who is bilingual. For this interview, I chose to use my best friend Alexa, who is a bilingual college student. Alexa’s mother language is Spanish and her second learned language is English. This interview really opened my eyes as to the struggles of someone who has learned more than one language at a relatively young age. During the interview she talked about the certain struggles she had to overcome when learning English and how it affected her school career and her family. Alexa learned Spanish prior to moving to Texas, where she then learned English. Alexa talked about how learning two languages had both its advantages and disadvantages, in life and in school. According to Alexa, learning her first language actually helped her learn her second one. This also helped her in school because she was able to connect her mother language vocabulary to the English language vocabulary. This connects to the theory that learning your first ...

This is my first blog entry, click on the video to watch!