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Rubi Almonte Vblog #2

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 Vblog#2 Hello, my name is Rubi Almonte and I interviewed my brother Ricardo Almonte he is an ELL yet, he is also a second-grade bilingual teacher. Down below I will write his responses on how he teaches and approaches ELL students in his classroom.      As a 3-year 2nd-grade teacher, he has seen many different students and has worked most of his teaching career with ELL students.  The questions that I used were from our textbook research activities.  One of the questions that I asked him was, about what approaches or methods he uses in his classroom? He answers it by saying the approaches or methods he uses in his classroom are the usage of their background knowledge. An example he gave me was the usage of images when introducing new vocabulary for his students to be able to grasp what the lesson was going to be about. Another question I asked him was, why he has chosen to use those strategies and how effective they are in helping students learn English at...

VBlog#1

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Vblog#1:      Hi my name is Rubi Almonte. I was born and raised in Houston, Texas. I am a student at the University of Houston where I am majoring in Teaching and Learning for EC-6. I am currently doing my student teaching in HISD. Spanish is my first language and I didn't learn English until I was in second grade. I was mostly exposed to it by my older siblings when they started going to school. I felt like I was exposed to a great amount of both languages as I started to grow and started to get different interests in TV and music. Growing up I never saw the need to learn a different language yet I felt like I was exposed to it more because as my siblings grew up they started to communicate more in English than Spanish. I never felt the need to learn it yet I did feel the need of needing to understand the English language to be able to understand what people were saying around me. I felt that my exposure to a different language has always been positive. Now that I am doi...