ESOL Endorsement: English Language Learners

Ever since I can remember I have always had an interest in people who are not from the United States. It was always their language that gave me an excitement about their lives back home and their now life in the United States. Once I became a Junior in college my advisor told me I should consider an ESOL Endorsement, However at the time I knew nothing about it or what it meant. After furthering my research and learning more about the endorsement and classes, I knew it was something I would be interested in while furthering my teaching career in my future. I was excited for a new journey while learning about English Language Learners (ELL). I’ve always wanted to be a teacher and now knowing that I can become an ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages) teacher is like a dream come true. While doing classroom observations with English Language Leaners I

I will tell you about a few errors that Spanish speakers have; Gender Confusion, Is when Spanish speakers commonly get confused to words like ‘’him’’ and ‘’her’’ because in Spanish the word ‘’su’’ signifies both male and female. Another popular error that Spanish speakers make is regarding the order of adjectives and nouns, In Spanish the noun usually comes before the adjective, but in English the noun come after the adjective. For example in English a sentence would say ‘’that is a lovely dress’’ and in Spanish the sentence would say ‘’that dress is lovely’’. We can see the difference is sentence structure and the voice of the sentence just by the place of nouns and adjectives. One last common error is when Spanish speakers shorten their contractions. When this takes place they often forget to finish a contraction in a sentence, such as for the word ‘’won’t’’ they would say