Hi! I'm a sophomore in college majoring in Spanish Education and getting certified to teach ESL. I've noticed with a LOT of the ESL students I work with, they will refuse to speak Spanish to me or sometimes even pretend they don't know it. If I ask them for clarification on how to say or pronounce something, they'll tell me, in English, that they don't know. But if I continue working with the same students for awhile, eventually they will acknowledge the language and sometimes converse with me in it, although still hesitantly. From personal experience it seems like ESL students don't like to speak their native language with native speakers of another language until they have grown to trust the person. It could also be because speaking Spanish in the school environment is taking the language completely out of context for them. I was wondering if any ESL teachers have noticed this pattern with their students at all?