Entry Blog 2 - Research
“Less than 1 percent of American adults today are proficient in a foreign language that they studied in a U.S. classroom. That’s noteworthy considering that in 2008 almost all high schools in the country—93 percent—offered foreign languages, according to a national survey” (Friedman. 2015). That is an extremely low percentile. Unfortunately, I fit in this statistic. Personally, I took multiple years of a foreign language in school and did not comprehend much of it. I think the reason I did not grasp the understanding of Spanish after taking it for 6 years in school is because I did not think it would pertain to me, therefore, I did not focus purely on it as I should. Another factor in my not learning Spanish was my teacher used the Classical Method, teacher centered, with memorization of grammatical rules and vocabulary, translations of texts, and written exercises. Being forced to memorize the language English to Spanish was merely memorizing words the night bef...
