Mod 5 - Blog Comment

On the blog site “Don Quijote” (http://blog.donquijote.org/blogs/spanish/ ) I choose to comment on the blog entitled “Felipe's study abroad experience: 8 weeks of learning Spanish”. It is a short entry, and intended for to pique student interest in traveling to Spain as part of a travel group sponsored by this company. The commercial nature of the entry does not bother me, however. I myself have studied in Salamanca and found the ring of truth in this testimonial. While I intend to rarely use non-source language materials in my classroom I feel that providing students with real life examples of language use and introducing them to the opportunity to study abroad is a great way to motivate them. I think that such as site as this would be a great resource, especially for seniors who are preparing for college and may want to consider studying abroad.