Learning a Second Language Documentary

As part of the documentary journalism class that I took at Ithaca College this past spring, I completed a short video documentary with a class partner. Our documentary, “The Bilingual Bicycle” followed elementary, high school and college  students who are learning a second language. Ultimately, the documentary illustrated the importance of becoming bilingual and portrayed students from a variety of backgrounds and demonstrated the challenges that come with learning another language. To accurately portray the process of learning a second language, we filmed featured students learning and interacting at school speak with teachers who teach English as a Second Language (ESL) or a second language in school. We showed the final documentary at a class screening in May, and we also posted the video on our production website.

Here is the final copy of the documentary, “The Bilingual Bicycle.”