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VBlog #2

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  The person I interviewed is my mom. She was born and raised in Taiwan. She started learning English in middle school which was required. She explained to me that the teachers weren't the best at teaching English since it was not their native language. The audiobooks had an American-speaking person, but her classroom teacher taught reading and writing in Taiwan. Later on in life, both of my parents came to the United States for graduate school, and that is when they started to learn English formally. I agree with the monitor hypothesis because when learning a new language, there will be mistakes being made. However, we learn from our mistakes and monitor what we acquire and then correct the mistakes.  "Lightbown and Spada (2013) identify four major perspectives from which theories about second language acquisition (SLA) have emerged: behaviorism, the innatist perspective, the cognitive/developmental perspective (psychological theories), and the sociocultural perspective"...
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VBlog #1

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  According to Wright, "Teachers who understand second language development and who engage in effective instructional and authentic assessment practices speak to their students and listen to them talk every day. They read with their students and ask them questions about what they read. They read their student's writing and discuss their work with them throughout the school year." This quote from chapter one resonated with me because I am not an ELL student, but I know what it's like and what it takes to learn another language which can be difficult with obstacles along the way. But then conquering on how to speak, read, and write is the best feeling.  Knowledge is power. With that being said, knowledge of languages is beneficial to teachers to think linguistically to integrate their teaching skills to create a language classroom environment.  We, teachers, are everything to these students because diversity is expanding in the classroom; therefore, we can be the studen...
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