1. Describe your experience in how you found your mentorship. If you haven't found one yet, describe your experience so far in the search of a mentor.
- Since I have changed my topic to something that doesn't pertain to what I did for the summer hours, I am still searching for a mentor that will help me with my senior project revolving around Language Acquisition. So far, I've e-mailed about ten language teachers at Mt. SAC for convenience, all of them teaching a language at the elementary level. Many of the teachers I have e-mailed have given me a reply yet. I kind of question if they ever opened up their inbox in the first place (which to me, foreshadows a bad mentor). To the one that has replied to me, Professor Salinger, I interviewed him for the interview component in order to test the waters. a great guy, but I didn't feel like I would enjoy having him as my mentor. Our personalities didn't seem to click and I couldn't see myself working with him for a whole year, thus I decided to just interview him. I am still currently in the search for a mentor.
2. What has been your most important article you have read so far and why?
- I feel like the most important article I've read so far has been "Brain Development and Mastery of Language in the Early Childhood Years" by Elaine Shiver. It goes into great detail about what goes on within a child's brain as they live through their early childhood years, develop communication skills for first language acquisition, and try to learn a new language later on in life (more specifically once the child is 6 years old). This article also talks about why children are able to learn a new language faster and what periods of time should they learn a new language before that opportunity window closes off.
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