VBlog #2
For this vblog I interviewed someone who learned English as a second language mainly through the help of the education system. Her first interaction with English began at home since she had older siblings that spoke it but her actual learning journey initiated once she entered school. My interviewee's native language is Spanish and she expressed that when she started to learn the English language she needed the help of her teachers in order for her to understand what she needed to do. "When teachers make space for translanguaging, they purposefully leverage students bilingualism for learning" (Wright, 2019, p.99). I think this is a very important quote that emphasizes the idea of providing support to bilingual students regardless of whether or not we are ELL teachers. When telling me how she learned English, she mentioned that her teachers would give her books to read and then she would have to write about what she had just read. Her teachers would use this as a way to ...
