Entry 4: Reflection
My understanding of learning a second language is that there are many different factors that teachers must take into account when creating lesson plans such as socioeconomic status, ethnicity, students’ home language, prior schooling, etc. Therefore, as a future educator, I have come to the understanding that an important aspect of students being able to learn a second language is that their teachers need to make instruction comprehensible for their English language learners. “People acquire second languages only if they obtain comprehensible input and if their affective filters are low enough to allow the input in” (Krashen, 1985). Hence forth, when it comes to different content-area teachers, these teachers need to be able to differentiate their instruction or provide effective scaffolds that will allow all of their students to access the content equally. I now also understand the importance of providing students opportunities to interact with each other in meaningful conversations...
