Hi! Welcome back to my third blog! I decided to interview my mentor teacher because she has had a lot of experience with having ELL’s in her class and this year we have one ELL. The student in our class has learned English as his second language but his native language is Spanish. I know that he learned Spanish first and then when he started school he learned English according to Ortega “Most people, therefore, learn additional languages from a mixture of both naturalistic and instructed experiences” (Ortega, 2013, 6). He has learned English both in the classroom and with his friends. My mentor teacher knows that his family only speaks Spanish at home and when he comes to school he has to switch to English. As I talking with her about how being an ELL has impacted his learning she did say that he might have trouble with switching from Spanish to English especially in his writing and when he is talking. I have noticed that in his writing he sometimes uses the word mi for my and when I am talking to him he says some words in Spanish but quickly corrects himself when he notices he used the wrong language. I can understand his confusion because when I was learning English I had a hard time knowing what word to use and how to write because switching from English and Spanish can be confusing.

Ortega, L. (2013). Understanding second language acquisition. Routledge.

Here is the link to my video: https://youtu.be/mNIPH64wx7U