Janelle, (please correct me if I spelled this incorrectly) It sounds like you have had some amazing opportunities to learn other languages. It is so special that one of your elementary schools offered a German choir for students at such a young age! Maybe if you had more time being involved in the choir you would have developed more of a memory on words that you learned during that time. I can completely relate to you on the struggle of taking a foreign language in high school. When you were taught your required language course in high school was it mostly vocabulary and grammar? In Ortega (2013, p. 8) it talks about how many language teachers debate regarding the best way to teach an L2. During my experience learning Spanish it seemed to be a lot of vocabulary memorization which is why I am wondering if we had similar experiences which lacked effective instruction. This is something Ortega (2013, p. 8) mentions can be a struggle when teaching L2.
Thanks for replying Emily! I felt very blessed to be able to have so many opportunities to learn a second language. But, yes in high school most of what I was required to learn was vocabulary and grammar. In Ortega (2013, p. 6) it talks about how their are two types of learners of L2, naturalistic and instructed. I believe that I had an opportunity to be bother learners. High school and middle school was more instructed while my early years and elementary were naturalistic learning opportunities.
Hi Janelle and Emily, I can also relate to you in learning another language through naturalistic and instructed instruction (Ortega, 2013, p.6). I am fluent in both Spanish and English as a child I learned through a bilingual system, so we would switch languages from time to time, once I was home it would be a pure naturalistic instruction. I would learn through cartoons speaking to my younger cousin, trying to read certain labels or books and so much more I was a little sponge trying to soak everything up. I proud of both of you ladies for trying to learn a second language I know it is not an easy task!
Janelle, (please correct me if I spelled this incorrectly)
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you have had some amazing opportunities to learn other languages. It is so special that one of your elementary schools offered a German choir for students at such a young age! Maybe if you had more time being involved in the choir you would have developed more of a memory on words that you learned during that time. I can completely relate to you on the struggle of taking a foreign language in high school. When you were taught your required language course in high school was it mostly vocabulary and grammar? In Ortega (2013, p. 8) it talks about how many language teachers debate regarding the best way to teach an L2. During my experience learning Spanish it seemed to be a lot of vocabulary memorization which is why I am wondering if we had similar experiences which lacked effective instruction. This is something Ortega (2013, p. 8) mentions can be a struggle when teaching L2.
Thanks for replying Emily! I felt very blessed to be able to have so many opportunities to learn a second language. But, yes in high school most of what I was required to learn was vocabulary and grammar. In Ortega (2013, p. 6) it talks about how their are two types of learners of L2, naturalistic and instructed. I believe that I had an opportunity to be bother learners. High school and middle school was more instructed while my early years and elementary were naturalistic learning opportunities.
DeleteHi Janelle and Emily, I can also relate to you in learning another language through naturalistic and instructed instruction (Ortega, 2013, p.6). I am fluent in both Spanish and English as a child I learned through a bilingual system, so we would switch languages from time to time, once I was home it would be a pure naturalistic instruction. I would learn through cartoons speaking to my younger cousin, trying to read certain labels or books and so much more I was a little sponge trying to soak everything up. I proud of both of you ladies for trying to learn a second language I know it is not an easy task!
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