Information: Teacher: Señorita (Miss) Amarisa Gombis (Spanish I‚ II‚ Intro to Spanish‚ and ELD @ RHMS) V-mail: 408-341-7000 x5125 E-mail: agombis@campbellusd.org *BEST way to contact me. Website: www.schoolrack.com/agombis/ *Updated daily! Room: M-6 ¡Hola! My name is Señorita Gombis and this is my 7th year at RHMS. I was born and raised near Chicago‚ IL and attended Hope College in Holland‚ MI. I graduated with a Major in Secondary Spanish Education and a Minor in Psychology. During my
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Culture has always been important part of my life. I am a first generation American; my father is a Greek immigrant and all of my mother’s family was born in Greece. Learning about my family’s history and visiting their homes in Greece has given me a worldly perspective. I want to travel to Guatemala to not only learn the language‚ but also fully immerse myself in the culture and create life long relationships. My friendships‚ family and connecting with new people are all special to me. I feel comfortable
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Normalmente voy a España con mi familia. Viajamos en avión‚ que dura tres horas‚ y conseguimos un coche al hotel. Permanecemos en un hotel grande con una piscina y una barra. Durante el día descanso a lado de la piscina‚ o hago natación cuando hace sol. Por la noche salimos a comer‚ después yo y mi hermano nos vamos explorando la ciudad. Normally I go on holiday to Spain with my family. We travel by plain‚ which takes 3 hours‚ and get a coach to the hotel. We stay in a big hotel with a swimming
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Learning a second foreign language As is known to all‚ with the increasingly tight communication in the whole world‚ English grudually becomes the general laguage in this communication. Many international files‚ documents and contracts are printed in English and especially it is becoming the first main language that global people wants to learn. In China‚ learning English unfolds a vigorous upsurge in students and it becomes a major class in various kinds of schools. Howerver‚ with the number
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born in NY‚ her first language is Spanish. The struggle she has to go through to “keep up” w/ her own language thinking as its somehow superior then what she already knows. Summary of My English Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American writer. She describes the struggle and the achievements she had in the essay ‘My English’. She lived in the Dominican Republic with her family‚ who spoke only Spanish at home. She grew up learning Spanish by heart. It was her first language. She and her sister joined
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native Chicano Spanish language needs to be preserved in order to maintain cultural unity when used as a private form of communication. Her statement‚ " for a people who cannot identify with either standard (formal‚ Castilian) Spanish‚ nor standard English‚ what recourse is left to them but to create their own language?" suggests that despite the societal pressures of needing to learn more formal and properly’ accepted English and Spanish‚ the very nature of the Chicano language is a unique creation
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4. Fluency Activity • Genesis scored a 2 for both oral and written language for her SOLOM results. To help Genesis with her fluency I provided her with 2 different stories. One story focused on “th” sounds and the other focused on “sh” sounds. Genesis is only 5 years old and does not know how to read many words so I helped her with this activity. For both of the stories‚ I read out loud and Genesis had to find and circle the words that started with “th” and “sh.” After she circled all of the words
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dictates assimilating into a common culture and language. Views on this issue are very polarized‚ which make a compromise seem hard to accomplish. Two articles that pertain to this topic are "American Multilingualism: A National Tragedy‚" by Franklin Raff published on WND.com‚ and "English Only Laws Divide and Demean‚" by Warren J. Blumenfeld published in The Huffington Post. Both articles are direct contradictions of each other with Raff saying languages other than English are unduly practiced and embraced
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experience in school learning grammar. How much preparation will you need to be ready to teach in the ESL/EFL classroom? Or‚ do you prefer to “learn as you go”? Since I was 3 years old‚ my mother took me to English classes once a week until I was 13 years old. I went to a Spanish school‚ and I vaguely remember learning grammar at that school. As I´m bilingual my Spanish teacher let me read English books or even do my homework from my private English classes. I remember my Spanish schoolmates asking
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philosophy of working with Latino Students My personal philosophy of working with Latino students whose primary language in the home is Spanish‚ is that of understanding‚ encouragement‚ and guidance. I personally have first-hand knowledge and understanding of what it means to grow up in a home where the primary language was Spanish. I grew up in a home where both my parents spoke nothing but Spanish and understood very little English. Based on my experiences‚ I found that the understanding of my teachers
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