One way she explains is that when she needs to go to the restroom she will give the teacher a signal of her fingers crossed up in the air and the teacher understands that she needs to use the restroom. The discourse of the English and Spanish have different patterns. When Jessica is using the English language she explains the difficulty between the two languages is hard and that the English language is much harder than Spanish. She mentioned in the interview that the sentence structure is different such as where the subjects go a and verbs go. She struggles with understanding all the parts of speech in the English language. After giving this interview, it is evident that there is a difficult struggle with pragmatics for ESOL students. While talking with Jessica, I could tell that she is very passionate about learning the English language, but at the same time, she is very frustrated. She struggles everyday trying to translate her language to the English speakers understand as well and translating English to Spanish in her head to understand the English Speaker. There are many things that she struggles to pick up on in everyday casual conversation as well as her written work. Grammar is very confusing for her and she feels it will always
One way she explains is that when she needs to go to the restroom she will give the teacher a signal of her fingers crossed up in the air and the teacher understands that she needs to use the restroom. The discourse of the English and Spanish have different patterns. When Jessica is using the English language she explains the difficulty between the two languages is hard and that the English language is much harder than Spanish. She mentioned in the interview that the sentence structure is different such as where the subjects go a and verbs go. She struggles with understanding all the parts of speech in the English language. After giving this interview, it is evident that there is a difficult struggle with pragmatics for ESOL students. While talking with Jessica, I could tell that she is very passionate about learning the English language, but at the same time, she is very frustrated. She struggles everyday trying to translate her language to the English speakers understand as well and translating English to Spanish in her head to understand the English Speaker. There are many things that she struggles to pick up on in everyday casual conversation as well as her written work. Grammar is very confusing for her and she feels it will always