Entry 2: Student Interview
My second entry into my Vblog is an interview I conducted with a formal ELL student who was able to share with me her experiences as an ELL student placed in ESL classes. In this Vblog I interviewed a former ELL student, Mary De Leon, who gave me insight into her experiences with learning a new language and her experiences with being placed in regular and ESL classrooms. As a native Spanish speaker, Mary is a part of 3.5 million ELL students whose native language is Spanish, this makes up over 80% of students identified as ELLs (Wright, 2015, p. 8). I asked Mary who was her most memorable teacher while learning English and how did this teacher have a positive effect on her success as an ELL student. She mentioned one teacher that supported her and didn’t make her feel like an outcast when she did have trouble with certain words in English. This teacher made sure that the students helped one another when they were struggling, which created a positive atmosphere in the classroom ...