Here is my interview with my friend whose second language is English. Second Language Acquisition Interview My friend Chenda is Cambodian and speaks the language of Khmer. She was born in the United States but grew up speaking Khmer as that was the language her parents and extended family spoke. She was fluent up until she started going to school where she started to learn English. She grew up surrounded by people who spoke Khmer to her, and this helped her learn this language growing up. However as she grew up, the surrounding environment involved the learning of English. As she watched American television and went to school, the need for her to learn English as a second language increased. Schumann was correct in his prediction that the more acculturated a learner can be can correlate to how successful they are when learning another language (Ortega, 2011, p. 59). The environment plays a large role in language acquisition, and the motivation for learning that language increases w...