VBlog 3
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...