Interview

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=Interview Transcript: =

Teacher: Okay, I’m going to ask you some questions about Spanish and stuff okay? So can you read in Spanish?

Student: No.

Teacher: No? Okay, what country is your family from?

Student: From Mexico.

Teacher: Did you ever go to school in Mexico?

Student: No.

Teacher: No, you just went to school here?

Student: Yes.

Teacher: Okay, how long have you been learning English?

Student: Like five hours?

Teacher: Five hours? That’s not very long, so just since you’ve been in kindergarten?

Student: Yes.

Teacher: Did you speak Spanish only before you came to kindergarten?

Student: Yes.

Teacher: Okay, do you like learning English?

Student: Yes

Teacher: Is it hard?

Student: No.

Teacher: No? Are you picking it real good?

Student: Yes.

Teacher: Do you think it’s fun?

Student: Yes.

Teacher: Okay, what do you think is the hardest part about learning English?

Student: I don’t know.

Teacher: Is reading hard? Or learning new words that could be hard do you think it’s hard?

Student: Yes.

Teacher: What does your teacher do to help you learn English?

Student: She reads.

Teacher: Anything else?

Student: She shows me sight words. We do fun centers.

Teacher: Do you like to read?

Student: Yes.

Teacher: Is it harder for you because it’s in English?

Student: Yes.

Teacher: What kinds of books do you like to read?

Student: Super Heroes.

Teacher: Yea those are good, anything else?

Student: No.

Teacher: What do you like to do?

Student: Play games and play with my little brother and my friends.

Teacher: How old is your brother Victor?

Student: My litter brother? He’s 6 his name is Alex.

Teacher: He’s 6? Aren’t you 6?

Student: Yea he’s a boy.

Teacher: Well, all brothers are boys.

Student: Are there any sounds in English that are hard that you don’t say in Spanish?

Teacher: Yeah? I know in Spanish you roll your Rs right?

Student: Yeah.

Teacher: You don’t really do that in English huh?

Student: No.

Teacher: Do you feel like you’re good at speaking English now?

Student: Yes.

Teacher: Yeah, I think you’re good.

Student: I think that’s it, do you have anything else to say about learning English?

Teacher: I like it.

=Analysis:=


 * much more comfortable speaking in Spanish
 * Spanish may have influenced his friend choice
 * he likes learning English even though it is hard
 * motivation to understand TV
 * loves learning new sight words and listening to stories
 * needs to have visuals with vocabulary words to build background knowledge
 * play sight word games
 * should be open to new experiences for background knowledge
 * needs work with sentence structure
 * should work on verb-noun agreements
 * loves to speak and answer questions
 * needs work with differentiating Spanish and English phonemes