VBlog 2- Maddison Hadaway
Hi All! For my ELL interview, I interviewed Francisco. He grew up in a home with Spanish as his primary language, with little to no English up until third grade. His journey began in elementary. His parents came to the United States, to give Francisco and his siblings better opportunities. In VBlog 2, Francisco discusses the activities and techniques used to help him learn English, as well as what he wished the teachers could have done differently to help him succeed. In the first part of the VBlog, I asked Francisco what kind of activities or lesson plans teachers used for ELL students. He described methods such as matching games, booklets in Spanish and English, and weekly/daily pullouts for English learning. Francisco also mentioned that his teachers and curriculum focused on vocabulary. This strongly correlates with the concepts in the Vocabulary chapter from the textbook The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition . In the tex...