Entry 3
Entry 3 Interview with Bilingual Teacher. Click here to watch the video. For this interview I decided to do Ms. Revollar which is one of our bilingual teachers on our second grade team. She went to school in Venezuela and graduated with her EC-6 degree. She was super nervous because she did not want to say something wrong. Her accent is very strong and so she said she did not want to make any grammar mistakes. Glass and Selinker talk about "how native speakers of a language know when certain sounds are possible in a word and when they would not be used"(p.9). She said that she doesn't know certain words in English and only knows them in Spanish so she was nervous to say something if she couldn't think of the English word so we practiced before we recorded so she could feel comfortable with her answers. Ms. Revollar showed us some of her strategies for motivating her students and how she uses materials in English and transfers them to Spanish herself. A lot of Ms. ...