Jenny Tran's SLA Blog

Interviewer: Jenny Tran Interviewee: Ms. Vanegas Interview Questions:  1. Which language did you learn first and how did you acquire it? 2. What strategies do you use to engage learners who struggle with English? 3. How does their home life affect their learning of English in the classroom? 4. What are some ways their parents can help them even if they do not know English? 5. How does what you've experienced in your classroom connect with what you've learned in school? 6. What disadvantages do you see that your bilingual students have? What about advantages? 7. How does Spanish being their first language affect their English? 8. What area are your kids struggling with the most when it comes to learning English? The writing, reading, or speaking? 9. How do you target specific areas that your kids struggle in? 10. What kind of differentiation strategies do you utilize to help students comprehend the language? Watch my interview here! Reflection: In ...

Interviewer: Jenny Tran (self) Interviewee: Mrs. Hernandez  Interview Questions:  1)     What age were you when you began learning English? 2)     Were you taught instructionally, or naturally? (If instructional, how often were you taught the language? Hours/days a week?; If naturally, in what ways did you learn – tv, social gatherings, work, etc. and how often were you exposed to the language daily?) 3)     How long did it take you to learn the English language proficiently? 4)     Do you think it would have been easier to learn at a younger age or an older age? 5)     Did your knowledge of the Spanish language help you when you started to learn English? 6)     Do you speak English or Spanish at home? Watch my interview here!   Reflection: In this interview, Mrs. Hernandez speaks about how she learned the English la...

Hi everybody! My name is Jenny Tran, and I am a senior at the University of Houston. My major is Teaching and Learning, EC-6, and I hope to teach somewhere between grades K-2nd. I am currently doing my Student Teaching 2 at HISD, and I look forward to graduating this spring and getting one step closer to my own future classroom! Thanks for reading my blog, and I hope you are able to get some insight into my life from watching my video.  Click here to watch my blog!