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I apologize for the sounds in the background but we conducted the interview in the library during recess so there were a couple of students assisting the librarian. Carlos Rosario is from Puerto Rico where he graduated college from mostly using Spanish. He is a 5th-grade math teacher who works in HISD. This interview was very helpful for me to learn about the relationships that ELL students develop while working with a teacher they can communicate with.             Mr. Rosario brought up a point about trying to reach out to a student’s cultural background when working with a student who is an ELL. This is a connection with the Sociocultural Perspective when it comes to second language acquisition (Wright, 2015, p. 55,56). This refers to the understanding of an ELL’s background to assist in the language learning process. I thought this was a good point for Mr. Rosario to make as since he has a background growing up in a diffe...

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In my interview with Cesia, we discussed the different times that she used her first and second language. During the interview, she marked Spanish as her primary language and English as her second language. There were several times where we discuss how she used the different languages and her primary language was used in the home to speak with her parents while her secondary language used with her sisters and at school. This type of learning is additive bilingualism for her as she learned both languages and has not lost the ability to use Spanish but has also learned English. Cesia learned how to speak English at a young age and was not able to remember much of the different things that occurred to her as she learned English due to them occurring in elementary school. There were a couple of examples where she had wished that there were more pictures and that the vocabulary that she had been learning was a little more explained. Cesia grew up in a Transitional Bilingual Environment...

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