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BLOG ENTRY 3  "ELL TEACHER INTERVIEW" I wanted to compare three different point of views on the same questions for my interviews. https://youtu.be/T4hvO_NE4fE For my 3rd Video Blog Entry I wanted to see what different opinions three ELL Elementary school teachers had to say for the same three questions. I do apologize for background noise I tried to do the interviews when the teachers weren't as busy. First I started with Ms. Curbow in which I was actually a student in her class as a pre-kinder. Ms. Curbow's class consists mainly of Spanish speakers. Ms. Curbow loves teaching and working with her students parents. Ms. Curbow says being patient is a main concept for any future ELL teacher coming into the field.  For my second interview I went to Ms. Hawson who teaches Pre-kinder as well. Ms. Hawson much like I stated in my previous blog says one of the challenges is learning the alphabet in both languages. Ms. Hawson likes working with EL...
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Entry 2: Interview with a young adult or an adult who learned English as a second language in the United States in the public school system

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https://youtu.be/lrTwIFrLk90 I interviewed a guy named Paulino who wished to not be recorded on camera but voice was fine. Paulino was from Mexico like me so we both had to learn the English language as a second language. I know that from the interview I could relate to mostly everything he had to tell me. Paulino had many interesting things to talk about on the education side of learning the language. For persons that were born or brought here at an early age here they have it easier since they would only know one language (English), while others move here from other countries by learning the language and adjusting to the culture have it harder which is actually true. We also had the same view on how Teachers should help ELL students that were struggling with English. By letting them be themselves and expressing their culture and values is a way to help the students out by showing you care about their background, thus making it easier to interact with them to help them out to...
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Entry 1: Course Introduction

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Hi, my name is Jesus Ramirez. Welcome to my first entry of my blog. I am currently a junior at the University of Houston and above is a video for my first V-blog!
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