Blog 4- Course Reflection
The Course The art of second language never ceases to amaze me. I have attempted to learn a second language myself and have taken a Second Language Methodology course. Both of these have taught me a lot about the depths of second language. However, after taking this course, Second Language Acquisition, I can see that second language has so many subtopics that I never knew about. For, there is a lot of research behind how we as humans best acquire a second or additional language. This information helps me better understand how my ELL students learn English. For example, I learned that “…learners who begin acquiring the L2 before a certain age, which these studies locate to be around puberty, will tend to exhibit intuitions that are very close to those of native speakers of that language” (Ortega, 2011). This explains why some of my third grade ELL students do not have an accent. This is just one example of t...