For this week's blog, I interviewed Mrs. King, a second grade bilingual teacher at Don Jeter Elementary. Click here to view it! Interviewing Mrs. King was very interesting. She is the type of instructor that always makes an effort to make her lessons relevant, hands on, and engaging for her students. As I was interviewing her, I learned that although her students all speak Spanish as their first language, they still come from many different contexts which affects their exposure to the English language. Some of Mrs. King’s students were born and raised in America but their parents only speak Spanish and therefore that is what they grew up hearing in their homes. Other students have just recently moved to the states and have had little to no exposure to English speaking individuals. In our textbook, Ortega talks about research conducted on school children that are learning a second language ...