Interview with English Second Language adult
Thank you for watching my Vblog #2, I decide to do option 1 which is an interview with an English learner. She is also a Monolingual teacher at Fort Bend ISD, and been working at Fort Bend ISD for 26 years. Her experience learning English was actually harder than she expected, she moved here to the United States as an adult. I can only imagine how difficult that was for her to adjust to a new culture and language. She did take English classes as soon as she moved here, and that's how she got into the school system as a paraprofessional. As time went by, she was able to get into school to become a teacher and she finally did. Now she's working as a monolingual teacher and working for a bilingual certification. She shared how newcomers come to her classroom as a transitional place while they get tested, and placed where they belong. Most students spend about a month and a half up to 2 months in her classroom, and students don't...