Entry 2 Hi everyone! For my second blog entry, I interviewed a family friend of mine named Joe. Joe grew up with his grandparents who were new to the U.S. from Mexico. His native language is Spanish and he spoke only Spanish until about first grade. Joe grew up in a city outside of Austin and his class had about 30-40 students. The majority of the class spoke Spanish. Throughout the interview Joe talked about how the process was for him to try to learn a language that was so different than what he was used to. Joe gave some advice to me as a future teacher to remember to be patient with ELLs. Take the time to work with them and to understand where they are coming from. Part of being patient made me think about Ortega talking about working memory in the textbook. The text talks about how working memory helps us integrate new information with known information already encoded in long-term memory (2013, p. 90). This helps explain why it is so important that we give students the time t...