CUIN 4361 Blog Entry 2
Links to my 2nd blog: CUIN Blog Entry 2 Overview I interview with my friend, Stephanie Zuniga, about her experiences of learning English as a second language. Like me, Stephanie grew up in the US with her family from a foreign country, only that her family speaks Spanish, and she is the first in her generation to learn English as a second language. Growing up, she managed to pick up English language by watching her childhood tv shows and then reading a lot of books, which were mostly given to her by her teachers. Eventually, she was able to socialize with her friends at school in English fluently. This is one of the few things I found interesting, because some people made some misconception that ELL students are born in a foreign country. However, there are some ELL students who are born in the United States and are exposed to English language growing up. According to Wright (2010), language plays a major role in developing the identity to students, and they formulat...