Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Being An ELL Student In The Classroom

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Journey West
1. I have had a few language learning experiences, the first being in spanish class during my freshman year of high school. Taking this class showed me that it is very difficult to learn another language, it is not just going to come to you overnight. I took two years of spanish and would say that I am not even close to speaking the language. I could imagine that this is very similar to what it feels like to be an ELL student in the classroom. Trying to do assignments, while learning the language is a very difficult and frustrating process, especially when you are learning your language and English at the same time. As stated in Freeman and Freeman, “his teacher thought he might do better in English. When he failed in English, he was put into a bilingual class” (7). It can be hard for these students understand what language they are suppose to be speaking, sue to all of the intermingling of the two languages.
I have also traveled to Spain and Mexico where spanish is spoken. This is an interesting experience because they have their own slang, making it difficult to understand what little spanish I know. It makes ordering food, a simple task, incredibly difficult. It is also very interesting when we would be out and about …show more content…
It is very easy for people that speak the language that you are trying to speak to just write you off and forget about you. I feel that in our country we often do this, we discount the person before we have even taken the time to help them understand. In other countries, from my experience, they do a better job at trying to understand you and speak our language to better communicate with us. This could also contribute to the difference in culture between the countries. If we, as a country, were more patient and took the time to make ELL’s more successful, we could have a better interaction and reputation with
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