Blog #10 - Watch Your Language!
As our nation becomes more diverse, it is not uncommon to see students learning English as a foreign language. I am studying Spanish Education and English as a Second Language (ESL) Education, so teaching language learners is something that I care about immensely. The two biggest research papers I have written in college so far were both about teaching language learners. Teaching language learners is so captivating to me because I am a language learner myself. English is my first language, but I have been learning and loving Spanish since I was 5 years old. I have had both amazing Spanish teachers and terrible Spanish teachers; I want to be one of the amazing teachers that my students have, whether I am teaching them Spanish or English. As I was reading the different texts for this blog, I read a lot of information that I was already familiar with, so I want to use this blog to highlight the things (I’m using a list form because that makes the most sense to me) that I either learned/