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By Nancy Gomez

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Get to know me!

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Get to know me!

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Getting to Know You

A. Fernandez

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Kendall Trevethan

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Since a young age I have been exposed to both English and Spanish. My first language was Spanish and English was later taught to me by my siblings and school. My cultural background has influenced my education in a way that I wouldn't have expected. As a student coming from a Spanish speaking household I was automatically put down as an EL. I vividly remember constantly being taken out of class to do testing to see if I was still an "EL". In fact I still remember one of the questions they had asked me which was "what is this" and it was a picture of a telescope which back then I didn't even know existed! Another cultural factor that influence my education was being expected to get straight A's in school. I always had to do better because the bare minimum wasn't enough. I constantly pushed myself to over achieve things in school such as good grades, not getting in trouble, or participating in school events.

One of the main reasons I chose this course was due to the connection I had with it. Being able to identify as a bilingual student who since a young age was put up against many other to be better and do better is not easy and then being told to only speak one language at home but them go to school and be told the opposite was challenging at times. Im overall excited to see how I can help others who might be like me or maybe not be bilingual and only speak Spanish.

Within my future teaching career I hope to make English easier for my student. It's not easy to be leaning 2 languages at the same time, I hope that what I learn in this course I can take it back to my classroom allow students to want and like to learn the English language.