My understanding of the learning process in this class is one of increased cognition and insight into the learning process, techniques, skills, and so on, which I certainly need as an aspiring teacher. My understanding of the learning of a second or additional language is that it can be a complex and intensive task if both the teacher and students do not follow proven procedures. However, the teacher, such as myself, must be dedicated and persistent in this interdisciplinary field of imparting knowledge. Ortega (2013) points out that the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) must be associated with the four fields of language teaching, linguistics, child language acquisition, and psychology. As such, my understanding is that these must be developed along with other disciplines, such as bilingualism, psycholinguistics, education, anthropology, and sociology for the learning of a SLA. These essentially are key principles for the effective language learning, as I will use them in my strate...
I interviewed Miss Carver, who has been a Teacher for nine years, and who is a third grade bilingual teacher. She teaches English and Spanish and has encountered a lot of pertinent information I needed to know. She was happy to point out her findings as related to my questioning related to foreign language aptitudes (Chapter 7) and motivation (Chapter 8). Ortega (2011) points out that people greatly differ in how fast, how well, and by what means they learn an additional language, resulting in large variability in their rates, outcomes and processes. Miss Carver states that bilingual students encounter situations or challenges in terms of their fluency being a barrier to their learning. She feels that speaking or communicating with students who speak another languages to themselves present a struggle for academic achievements. She also states that these students are able to ‘catch up’ socially easier than academically, to their peers in class. This may be so because available evi...