Genoveva T. Palmieri
After having read and discussed many issues about language learning, it is important for students to find out for themselves about the experience of language learning. Students will have the opportunity to talk with and interview individuals that have had gone through the experience of learning another language and how it felt to have to do so.
One of the aims of the curriculum is to involve the students in becoming familiar with the process of learning a second language. The process will be to have them make an inquiry, become familiar with the process and write about it for class.
Many of the students being Puerto Rican or Latinos would have the opportunity to remember about their own language development. They would need to find out from their parents about their language learning, and how it has related to their lives at home and at school.
For those students who have someone who has had to learn English in their own family they would interview them, find out about their immigrant experience and how language affected their cultural experience.
In the case of students who cannot do either of these two options above, they will interview either another student or someone they know who is willing to share their language and acculturation experience.
