For this interview, I decided to interview my oldest sister, Wendy. Wendy was born in Mexico and was brought to the U.S. by our parents when she was just 4 years old. In Mexico, she remembers wearing uniforms and being in a structured school. She thinks our parents wanted her to have a better education so the private school in Mexico was what they chose vs public. In the U.S, for the next 2 years, she was in a bilingual class where other students were also learning English and their first language was Spanish. Wendy felt like she thrived in this environment, she felt more comfortable and was able to learn English while using her first language to learn this new language. By third grade, she was in an ESL class where she had other students who knew English for the most part at that point, but their first language wasn’t necessarily Spanish. “Teachers can then determine what is likely to be challenging about a particular activity, lesson, or unit for those students and select appropriate...
