Entry 3: Interview with a Foreign Language Teacher
I interviewed Mrs. Garcia, a Spanish teacher at Kahla middle School. I found out that Mrs. Garcia went to school to become a history teacher, but she struggled on the Texas History part of the content exam. This led her to teach Spanish instead which she is extremely happy about, and said she is glad things played out the way they did. When reading out chapters, several things stood out to me that I wanted to talk to Mrs. Garcia about. First, I was curious whether or not she believed it took a special kind of person to learn another language. Chapter 7 talks about how greatly people differ in how fast and how well they acquire an additional language (Ortega, 2014, p. 145). Mrs. Garcia stated she doesn’t believe it takes a special kind of person to learn a new language, and that children all have an equal opportunity. It is about applying themselves. Another question I wanted to be sure and ask Mrs. Garcia, was how she gets her students motivated to learn a new lang...