SLA VBlog 2
Hey Guys! Welcome to my VBlog two. For this VBlog I decided to interview my friend Cristian Servin. Cristian is 25 years old, and was born and raised in Houston, Texas. His parents migrated to the US before he was born, however their household remained pretty Spanish oriented. In this video Cristian talks about how up until the time that he was put in school, he only spoke Spanish at home and even when he was placed in school, he was placed in an ESL class so he never felt too stressed out as opposed to being placed in an all English speaking class where he would have felt very stressed and confused. According to Rowland (2014), “the second pre-requisite we need to acquire language is an environment in which we are exposed to a language.” (p. 16) He believed that because he was placed in an ESL class, it allowed for an easy introduction and transition into the English learning experience. Cristian talks about what his drive for learning English was, and oddly enough he...