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Post 3- Interview with ESL Teacher

Welcome to my blog. Click here to view my interview!         For my 3rd vblog I decided to interview my mentor teacher, Rosy Patel. Mrs. Patel is a first-grade teacher, she has been teaching in a public-school for around 10 years. Apart from being a teacher who has taught many English language learners she is also ESL certified, and bilingual herself.          One of the things that Mrs. Patel mentions is that most ELL tend to have a hard time processing English at a fast rate and therefor struggle when reading in English. She even mentions that often she feels like students try to translate English words to their native language which of course would take quite a bit of time. Not only does it take a long time, but it also can create misconceptions. As I have seen first-hand, and later adopted from my time in Mrs. Patel’s classroom, she was able to recognize these patters by observing her students and taking n...
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Post 2- Interview with Kenia

Click here to watch my interview with Kenia! Reflection: I have known Kenia for around two years, after many late nights up studying this semester, I thought I knew her very well. That being said this interview with her taught me many things that I would not have known otherwise. While I did know that Kenia was bilingual and that her L1 was Spanish I did not know how she came about learning her L2. During my interview with Kenia I learned that she came to know Spanish at a very young age. Using the knowledge provided by our textbook, I know that Kenia acquired Spanish, that is she gained her knowledge about Spanish subconsciously without her trying to formally learn the language (Wright, 2015, p. 51). However, she learned English since this occurred in a formal instructed way, though school (Wright, 2015, p. 51). Another interesting take away that I learned though my interview with Kenia is that she feels more confident reading and writing in English, her second lang...
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Post 1- Introduction

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Hello! My name is Karen Lazcano. I am currently a senior at the University of Houston. I will be graduating in May with a Bachelors of Science in Teaching and Learning. I am a first grade student teacher in FBISD, and I absolutely love it! As a bilingual student myself, I look forward to learning more about teaching English language learners.
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