523个项目在秋季2007

About Reference: http://www.cs.uic.edu/~i523/ In the diverse modern society, people are divided with languages. Kids at school unconsciously divide themselves into linguistic groups. Kids who speak Spanish at home are comfortable to talk to and mingle with kids from a similar background, similar things happen with kids speaking English, Chinese or Italian. This language barrier divides them and makes it difficult for them to be involved in an activity that needs the skills of all the groups of children. Hence it makes it necessary to teach children an easy and interesting way of understanding how languages work. National Standards for Foreign Language Education also states that, “The United States must educate students who are linguistically and culturally equipped to communicate successfully in a pluralistic American society and abroad” 9 This project makes use of tangibles in the form of modified Lego bricks to teach kids the importance of st