Entry 2: Interview with an ELL
Hey Y’all welcome to my second Vblog! For this blog I decided to Skype one of my best friends Shirley from Dallas. I do not know very many people in Houston that know another language so I thought it’d be neat to learn a little more about my best friend and her experience with speaking two languages. Shirley primarily began speaking Spanish as a child; it was not until elementary school beginning of Pre-K when she began learning English as a second language. Shirley grew up speaking Spanish because her parents and siblings only knew Spanish. Her family migrated from Mexico to the United States and their happened to be a strong language barrier along the way. My best friend was considered a Successive early bilingualism student. She primarily spoke Spanish but at a very early age she was learning English as well. So she eventually became very fluent in both languages. She is now dominant in English but her parents in who she speaks to on a daily basis still primarily speak S...