Entry 3
https://youtu.be/gW_6KcywSEI Blog 3 The educator that I interviewed has taught a bilingual class, specifically during the summer for elementary age children. I felt that we had a very good dialogue about a few different topics in regard to the topic of acquiring a second language and what that can entail. One of the questions that I asked was if she thought that children who acquire a second language at a younger age are at an advantage. Her reply was yes, she came to this conclusion from mainly from her personal experience of acquiring another language. “Children acquiring their first language complete the feat within a biological window of four to six years of age. By contrast, the ages at which different L2 learners may begin learning the new language range wildly. Thus, age emerges as a remarkable site of difference between L2 and L1 acquisition” (Ortega, pg.12). In her experience she said th...