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Birth
Bayamon, Puerto Rico
Born in a -
Kindergarten
Started takinng English classes at Kindergarten.
Age - 5 -
New York
First visit to New York City, student trip. Had to communicate in English with the tour guides.
Saw the Twin Towers!!! -
Codeswitching!!!
In highschool I started codeswitching more and more everytime. -
Social Networking!
Started using social networking web pages like MySpace andFacebook.
The pages are in English, but I usually communicate in Spanish with my family and friends in there, so most of the time Im reading in both languages at the same time. -
Move to the USA
-Started speaking English at home with husband to practice my conversational skills.
-Eventually we started codemixing and codeswitching, specialy when I couldn't find the way to express in English a concept or idea.
-Starded working, had to speak English all day. -
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Move to USA
-Started speaking English at home with husband to practice my conversational skills.
-Eventually we started codemixing and codeswitching, specialy when I couldn't find the way to express in English a concept or idea.
-Starded working, had to speak English all day. -
Birth of my child
Washington, USA
Type 3 Home: Mixed Language
My husband and I spoke spanish most of the time, but we would codeswitch a lot and sometimes have english conversations at home. -
Return to PR
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Work as a Bilingual Teacher BEC-21
Urban Elementary School of Guaynabo
-Speak English AND Spanish to my students.
-Speak Spanish to my son.
-The mayority of the time speak Spanish with my husband, usually we speak English. We do a lot of codeswitching.
