Hi everyone! Welcome back to my blog. To see my interview with an ELL teacher click here ! For my interview, I talked to my mentor teacher, Kelli Recchilongo who is a first grade teacher at Foster Elementary. I have worked with her throughout all of student teaching. We have three English Language Learners in our class and a few ESL students as well. One thing that I found in my interview is how important it is to be patient when you are working with ELL and ESL students. They deserve the same education as other students, but it might take them a little longer to process everything. In the text, according to the usage-based theory, learning constructions and their meanings does not require any specialized innate knowledge of linguistic rules or principles. One of the skills needed for this is analogical reasoning which allows the student to compare across different constructions and work out what commonalities are. This happens through socializing with their classmates. Rowland, C....