Chapter 8: Teaching Teenagers Who Are Still Learning English

"I want to learn their culture and their language. And they could learn my culture and my language." p. 149

-This quote from the chapter reminded me of my high school experiences in Spanish class. The high school I went to is private, and has a wide variety of nationalities each year that come on exchange. The students that were from Spain, there were three of them, were in my Spanish three class. Having them in our class gave us a great first hand perspective of what life is like in Spain, and they were very helpful in learning the Spanish language. When we would be doing class exercises to learning Spanish, they would be doing the same learning English. These students could speak some English, but they became much more fluent by being in our class. I learned more my junior year in Spanish then I did in any other year, and I believe it was because I had the opportunity to learn from the exchange students from Spain.