Reflection
Taking this course over the summer has definitely been hectic. Nevertheless, I’ve enjoyed learning about what second language acquisition is and actually begin to understand second language acquisition a bit more. Before this course, all I knew was that I am bilingual due to the fact that I am able to understand two languages; I am able to read, speak, and write in both Spanish and English. However, I never really sat down to think about what my learning process was like with learning my second language until now. Throughout this course I got to learn more about actual influential factors that are involved in an individual’s learning process with a second language. I have learned about factors such as, age, crosslinguistics, cognition, and motivation to name a few. At first I found age to be an obvious factor since I have always thought that of course those who learn a second language at an early age will have better language proficiency than those who start later in life. To my surp...