Here is my 3rd video! Video
For my third interview, I decided to interview my co-worker's mom, her name is Maria Sagredo. Mrs.Sagredo has been a teacher for 22 years but has been at Edgewood Elementary for 17 years, she is a fourth-grade bilingual teacher.
Mrs. Sagredo states that ELL students struggle the most with vocabulary and due to this they tend to communicate in their native language over English. Ortega states that, Mrs.Sagredo made an interesting point she said that bilingual students are more well behaved than monolingual students, she believes that bilingual students behaver due to their culture. Although bilingual students are better behaved, she states that in the lower grades these students have higher academic disadvantages due to the lack of language, but as they move to the higher grades they acquire the English skills faster. One of the main reasons why these students have low English vocabulary it is because at home they only speak one language at home, this is also stated by Rowland (193).
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Entry 2
Hi everyone welcome back to my blog!
https://youtu.be/dFGtP3IY4kY
For Entry two, I decided to interview my long-time friend Viri. Her first language is Spanish, she was introduced to her second language English when she was about eight years old. She states that she thinks that was the perfect age to learn her L2 because she feels like if she had been introduced to her L2 earlier, she would've not been ready. She thinks that a younger age she would've not had the mental capacity to learn her L2. After speaking her L2 for over 10 years, she considers her dominant language to be English. Viri states that although she was able to find similarities between her L1 and L2, there were times that those similarities did not help. Ortega states that "sometimes certain L1-L2 similarities do not seem to help." (pg. 32) The book also states that sometimes the differences are not the ones that make learning an L2 more difficult, but it is the similarities. Viri mentioned that she connected the Spanish word "constipado" to the English word "constipated." unfortunately the connection she thought she found was not helpful. Luckily there was someone there to correct her, but if her friend had not corrected her, she would go around telling people she was "constipated" instead of "congested." Although Viri states that when she was younger, there were words with the "th" that she had trouble saying, now that she is an adult and daily speaks her L2, there are no words she avoids saying.
I enjoyed being able to interview my friend, I got to learn more about her, and share with her what I have been learning in this class.
References:
https://youtu.be/dFGtP3IY4kY
For Entry two, I decided to interview my long-time friend Viri. Her first language is Spanish, she was introduced to her second language English when she was about eight years old. She states that she thinks that was the perfect age to learn her L2 because she feels like if she had been introduced to her L2 earlier, she would've not been ready. She thinks that a younger age she would've not had the mental capacity to learn her L2. After speaking her L2 for over 10 years, she considers her dominant language to be English. Viri states that although she was able to find similarities between her L1 and L2, there were times that those similarities did not help. Ortega states that "sometimes certain L1-L2 similarities do not seem to help." (pg. 32) The book also states that sometimes the differences are not the ones that make learning an L2 more difficult, but it is the similarities. Viri mentioned that she connected the Spanish word "constipado" to the English word "constipated." unfortunately the connection she thought she found was not helpful. Luckily there was someone there to correct her, but if her friend had not corrected her, she would go around telling people she was "constipated" instead of "congested." Although Viri states that when she was younger, there were words with the "th" that she had trouble saying, now that she is an adult and daily speaks her L2, there are no words she avoids saying.
I enjoyed being able to interview my friend, I got to learn more about her, and share with her what I have been learning in this class.
References:
Ortega, L. (2013). Understanding second language acquisition. Routledge.
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Introduction: Karla Martinez
Welcome to my blog, below I have shared my first video. I hope you all enjoy my video and I cannot wait to watch the videos, you all have created it.
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. My name is Karla Martinez, I am currently majoring in Teaching and Learning with a certification in 4th grade through 8th-grade Mathematics.
As I mentioned in my video, I was born in Mexico City, and according to Ortega "most kids grow up speaking only one language." (Ortega 2013 p.4), which that was my case until I was about eight years old and we migrated to the United States. Once I was in the United States I was introduced to my Language 2 (L2), English. Ever since I was able to speak my L2 fluently, I considered myself to be bilingual, but after reading the difference between Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition (SLA), I now find myself being part of the SLA group. Ortega states that those who are bilingual are those who learned more than one language at a very young age specifically before the age of four. I learned to speak English at the age of 8, for that, I am part of the third study SLA. (Ortega 2013 P.4). Learning English was not the easiest task, but it was accomplished. Ortega states that there are two different ways to learn second languages. One way it is the naturalistic way were it is learned by the interactions you have with others without “receiving any organized instructions.” Then, there is instructed learning, meaning that you take formal or private courses/classes to learn the language. (Ortega 2013 P.6) Although these are the two ways to learn another language, according to Ortega most people fall in a mixture of both. I agree with him because that is the way I learned English. My aunt tutored me privately, and there was a lot of learning through the interaction I had with my peers in school, and while the process of learning English it was not easy it was accomplished.
After completing Module 1, I have been introduced to different information about my L2. I enjoyed reading this chapter, and it is information I can share with my friends and help them discover whether they are in the Bilingualism or SLA group.
References:
Ortega, L. (2013). Understanding second language acquisition. Routledge.
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