Interview with Amy! My mother, Amy, has experience as a 4th grade math and science teacher, where she dealt with English Language Learners (ELL) on a daily basis throughout her career at Dickinson Independent School District. Amy had several perspectives that connect heavily with the ideas and research conducted by Ortega, Gass, and Wright (2013; 2015). Both the researchers and Amy agree that motivation and confidence in the content help ELL students learn the material and objectives more efficiently (Wright, 2015). Amy also ensured students participated in the maintenance of the classroom culture, allowing them to insert aspects of their backgrounds and culture into the classroom environment. This type of inclusion closely relates to Wright's views on how second language acquisition and learning benefit from the inclusion of a sociocultural perspective in the classroom (2015, p. 56). In combination with including students' backgrounds in the classroom, Amy also engag...