Blog Entry 2: Interviewing an ESL Learner ` Hello and thank you all for coming to my second blog post for SLA. For my interview, I sat down with my resident Christian who is from Vietnam. He started learning English while he was in first grade living in Vietnam, but he did not truly begin to practice consistently until he moved to the United States during high school. According to Ortega (2013), Christian would be classified as a mixture. Being that he started learning English in a formal setting he is an instructed learner, he also learned through interactions with his environment in Vietnam and in the states, he is also a natural learner (p.6). Parents also have an impact on a child’s ability to acquire language because they are one of the largest agents of socializations. As Christian had explained, his parents began learning English...