Analyses
In this section, you will be able to read the analyses our group made for each interview and how the views of our interviewees relate to those of scholars specialized in language learning. Mrs. Li discusses how learning a second language as an adult was beneficial to her and how she preferred learning it this way rather than at a young age. The other three interviewees do not share this view. Kabir Mohideen discusses how learning how to speak a language before one can read it or write it is better than the standard way second languages are taught in America, in which one learns how read and write before one has good proficiency in speech. Professor Ristaino discusses in her interview how socioeconomic status can in fact, contrary to the opinion of scholar P. Collier, affect the learning of a second language. Jennifer Zhang talked about the gradual loss in proficiency in her first language, a Chinese dialect, Fuzhou Hua, once she began using her second language, Mandarin, more often.