Hey everyone!

Welcome back to my blog, My name is Elyse Ramos and I am so excited that this is my last semester of my senior year!! I hope everyone has a great semester and that you enjoy this class. Good luck to you all!


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  1. Shelly GarzaFebruary 3, 2019 at 10:51 AM

    Hey Elyse! I really enjoyed watching your video! We had some similarities growing up, as where Spanish is something we grew up speaking and English was something we tended to respond with. It was a well mixture of learning and knowing bother languages. I never knew you took French or tried to learn it. That is awesome, Ortega said “whether we grow up with one, two or several languages, in most cases we will learn additional languages later in life” (Ortega, 2013, p.18). I think you should actually give French another chance! When traveling the world that may actually help you and can benefit in other ways. I say give it a try you never know!

    Ortega, L. (2013). Understanding Second Language Acquisition. London and New York: Routledge.

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    1. Vivianne PinedaFebruary 10, 2019 at 8:56 PM

      Hi Shelly and Elyse! It makes me so happy to hear that many teachers have had similar experiences to me in regards to our English language learning. According to the textbook, “In some parts of our world, most children grow up speaking one language only." (Ortega, 2013, p.20) The fact that we were fortunate enough to grow up speaking two will help us to relate to our ELL students and sympathize with their struggles.

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    2. ElyseFebruary 11, 2019 at 3:13 PM

      Hi Shelly, thanks for watching my video. Yes we do have similarities that is awesome. haha I would not say I know french but I did try learning it but I did not retain the language at all much. I think I can barely count to 10. You are right though I should try to learn again. I do want to travel the world and if I plan to go somewhere overseas it would be better to learn that language. You never know what the future holds I might end up learning french.

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    3. ElyseFebruary 11, 2019 at 5:49 PM

      Hi Vivianne, thanks for watching my video and commenting on my blog yes we do have all things in common. As teacher its good to connect with other teachers that have things in common. As teachers who learned a second language I think we are more understanding of our students who are ESL since we went through the same things so we kinda have that connection which I think is great.

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  2. Kanwal ShiwaniFebruary 3, 2019 at 12:41 PM

    Hey Elyse! Thank you for sharing your experiences with us; I enjoyed watching your video. It is impressive to know that you were learning two languages at the same time, especially because you were so young! You mentioned in your video that even though you learned Spanish and English at the same time, you spoke English more because you started going to school. This caused you to lose some Spanish. I like how you mentioned that you’d want your future children to speak more than one language and this reminded me of when Ortega said, “in some parts of our world, most children grow up speaking one language only" (Ortega, 2013, pg.3). When a person learns a new language, he/she learns about a new culture which is important because we live in such a diverse country. I look forward to more blogposts from you!

    Ortega, L. (2013). Understanding Second Language Acquisition. London and New York: Routledg

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    1. ElyseFebruary 11, 2019 at 3:23 PM

      Hi Kanwal, thanks for watching my video and taking time to reply to it. Yes, I did learn two languages growing up but I lost my Spanish as I got older. I spoke english at home with my parents and I wish my parents spoke more to me in spanish that way I would still be good and confident in it. Since I started school and was not going to my grandma house to watch me I did not really get to practice my second language. Yes kanwal thanks for commenting on that I want to teach my children spanish because I think it is great and important for kids to know more than two languages.

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  3. LaurenFebruary 11, 2019 at 6:41 PM

    Hi Elyse, thanks for sharing your video! I think it’s great that you were exposed to Spanish at such a young age. It seems that you kind of went through bilingual acquisition when you were young because you were speaking English with your parents and Spanish with your grandparents. Ortega defines bilingual acquisition as “the process of learning two or more languages relatively simultaneously during early childhood – that is, before the age of four” (Ortega, 2013, p.4). But language is like a muscle, when we don’t use it, we lose it. Since you began to use English more when you started school and less Spanish because you were spending less time with your grandparents, it makes sense that you lose your knowledge of the language. In order to maintain a language, you must continually use it. Good luck this semester!

    Ortega, Lourdes. (2013). Understanding second language acquisition. London: Routledge

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