I have attached the instructions and an example. You will interview a non-native speaker of English who started to learn English between the ages of 6 and 8 in a United States Public School (Puerto R

Instruc tions for the Ca se Stud y Inte rview component Inte rview a non -native spea ker of English who learned English throu gh an ESL program in one of the United States public schools (Puer to Ri co, United States Vi rgin Island s, Amer ican Samo a, and Gu am are included) after the age of 5. The pa rticip ant may not be a relative and must be 18 yea rs or olde r. You will conduct the inte rview using the 20 qu estions that are below. It is stron gly sug gested that you record the Q/A so that you can cond ense your time wi th your inte rviewe e and be comes ea sier for tran scription. Subm it the que stions and sub sequ ent respon ses from the inte rviewee in a typewritten form at. P lease be extrem ely respec tful of your inte rviewee s. Pse udo names for your inte rview ee are strongly encou rag ed. Demon strate your grati tude ve rbally. Qu estions for your Interv iew: 1. Wh at is your first langu age? How many languages do you spe ak? To what degree of fluen cy? 2. Wh at is your do minant language? 3. Do you use d ifferent lan guages in different settings? 4. How old were you when you first we re expo sed to English? 5. How did you lea rn English? 6. De scribe your school ing exp erien ce s. 7. Wh at were the hindrance s? Wh at help ed you? 8. Wh at would your teac hers have done differently to help you learn? 9. Are there ways th at you furthe red your English development out side of school? 10. Wh at are the major differen ce s b etw ee n English and your first language in the following are as:

a. Ve rbs b. Wo rd order c. Alphab et and M orphemes d. Phonemes e. Oral Communic ation No rm s f. W ritten Commun ication No rms g. Iss ues of Respec t h. Othe r? 11. Wh at pa rts of English are the mo st diffi cult for you tod ay? 12. Are you doi ng anything to imp rove your second lan guage skill s? 13. How would you sugge st someone goes about learning anoth er language? 14. Did you rece ive any form al schooling in your first lan guage? In the U.S. or anoth er co untry? In or out of school? Oral? W ritten? 15. How we ll do you spea k/read/w rite/und erstand your first language? 16. Have you exp erien ce d any language loss? If no, how have you mainta ined your f irst lan guage? If so, wh at are the effects of language loss for you? 17. Have you enga ged in oral or w ritten tran slatio n? For what pu rpo ses? 18. Wh at do I nee d to know to teac h other emergent bilingual students that will be in my class? 19. Is there anythi ng else you think I should know about your exp erien ce learning English? 20. Any other follow -up que stions you ne ed to identi fy two strong theme s. Wr itten component After condu cting the intervie w, you wi ll align the an swe rs and relate them wi th at least two SLA prima ry topic s/theme s. Sele cted topics/them es may include, but are not limited to the one disc ussed in class. For the pap er you will use A PA form and style. Avoid wr iting in fir st person. You must use at lea st four di fferent schol arly sou rce s from books or pe er rev iew jou rnal s. You will be pe rmitted to use two of your sourc es from your prior resea rch pap er on SLA prima ry topic s. Re frain from using info rmal lan guage and submit your pap er by the due date. Include at the end of your paper the 20 inte rview que stions with the an swers. Eve rythi ng mu st be in one docum ent. Be low are spec ific instruct ions on what should be includ ed in your pap er: • An introducto ry paragr aph that stat es the pu rpo se of the assignment and ba sic inform ation about the person who is the subje ct of the case study. • An ove rview of this pe rson’s exp erien ce s in U.S. schools and society. This section wi ll culminate with the following senten ce : “b ased upon the information provided by this inform ant and the resea rch, the following two themes we re selec ted for further resea rch and . • Sever al pa ragraphs will be requi red to synthe size wh at is stated in the resea rch about eac h theme with the inte rview ee ’s story. Di scu ss tho roughly one theme at a time. Con clude this large sec tion of your pap er with a sentence like the followin g, “F rom the resea rch and the case study the following rec ommend ations for teac hers m ay be mad e...” You will want to bul let your recommend ation s. • After the recommend ations have be en mad e, a con cluding parag raph where you wi ll reite rate your most impo rtant poin ts will be prov ided. • Re member to submit ev erythi ng in one documen t and submit on time by the due dat e.