Blog Entry #2: Interview with Joe
Hey, everyone ! Click HERE for my Blog Entry #2 For my interview, I met up with Joe who I met through a mutual friend. Joe was born in Austin, Texas into a Spanish speaking family. As a matter of fact, his grandparents were the ones that raised him, and to this day, they do not speak very much English. Joe started Kindergarten at a new school and it was the first year his school had Kindergarten classes. Surprisingly, Joe was not the only one who spoke Spanish. He explained to me that his class full of about 30-40 children and almost half of them spoke Spanish. His teacher had a teachers aide who helped the Spanish speaking students transition to English, and Joe still remembers her to this day. To start of my interview, I asked Joe what the process was transitioning from Spanish to English. He said that it was hard and overwhelming to connect English words to things that he already knew in Spanish. This made me think about the Input Processing Model developed by VanPatten. This m...