Entry 4: Final Reflection
This class has been very informative, and I have learned a lot in such a short amount of time. When I entered the class, I thought it was just going to be about how people gain a second language, and the best way to do so. I soon came to find out it was much more than that. Teaching English language learners is a large part of being a teacher, especially for the area we live in. I learned that there are a lot of things that influence how well a person learns a second language. Ortega (2011) called these influences “universal influencers”, which include age, mother tongue, environment and cognition (pg.9). These factors have a greater impact on a person development of a second language than most people think. As a teacher, this information is vital to ensure that the English language learners in a class are being treated fairly and equally. By a teacher knowing that age effects how well a person can learn a second lan...
