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Hello everyone, For my second video blog I decided to interview my mother Giovanna Arthurs,she was born and raised in Panama and her first language is Spanish, she also learned English as her second language. In the video, my mother mentioned that she learned english natuarally as a child at home with her family whose first language is English. But when she came to the United States at the age of 13 she was placed in ESL classes. Even though she knew english she needed additional help with reading and writing. My mother social enviroment allows her to use her dominant language, which is spanish on a daily basis because she gets the opportunity to interact with speaking people.  As a child my mother grew up in Panama speaking spanish and english at the same time. This idea corresponds to what Ortega (2013) states that "in any parts of the globe, most children grow up speaking two or more languages simultaneously. According to my mother, she believes that it is easier to learn a ...

Katiana Munro's Blog Hello! My name is Katiana Munro, and I am a senior at the University of Houston. My major is teaching and learning with a EC-6 certification. I would love to teach 1st or 2nd grade,knowing that i can make a difference while kids are still young motivates me to become an elementary teacher. I was surronded with spanish around me my whole life, but it wasnt spoken as much for me to learn in my household. My mother and her side of the family speaks fluent in spanish, she is from Panama.She spoke to my brother and I in English most of the times and sometimes she would say some of the the the basic spanish words to us. Ortega mentions in the article, that "A Second language learner needs to learn the grammar." (Ortega,2013). My mother who speaks spanish always have problems in her grammar,For example she may send a email and ask me to look over it just to make sure it sounds correct.Her grammar was not 100%, it was just enough to get her by, so I de...