Five Tricks Card Game Analysis

After attending class and participating in the discussion on multilingualism and multiculturalism, I am more aware of the difficulties multilingual and multicultural students face. The Five Tricks card game we played in class really opened my eyes to what these students experience. During the card game, I became frustrated and agitated with those around me because I thought they did not learn to play the game correctly. It was important for me to play by the rules, because my family and I get into card games at home, and we take them very seriously. I found myself frustrated because I could not correct my peers when they made a mistake. I was also agitated because I believed they did not pay attention to the rules in order to learn the …show more content…
E. Andrzejewski, FOUN 3000 Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, April 13, 2017). Quique Aviles shares in his work, “My Tongue is Divided into Two” from Reading for Diversity and Social Justice that he first began to learn English by watching television and looking up English words in the dictionary. His story is just one example of how students learn English differently and not all students learn the same way. Furthermore, the game was very eye opening and allowed me to get a small glimpse of the frustrations that ELL and bilingual students must feel when they are trying to learn in school. I feel this is a very important understanding for me to make as a teacher, because I will have students from many different cultural backgrounds in my classroom. I need to learn how to incorporate my students’ backgrounds into my classroom to help them learn to the best of their abilities. Furthermore, I need to learn different strategies that help multilingual students learn, because more than ten percent of students in publics schools are English Language Learners (Ornstein, 2015). This number continues to increase as we have more families making their way to the United States from other …show more content…
This topic got me thinking about the ideals of country we live in and how many citizens of the U.S. believe we are superior over other countries and ethnic groups. Because of this, many people feel that those who immigrate into the U.S. should learn our language and our culture in order to fit in and make a living. But bilingual education would open up so many doors for current and future generations. However, if we chose to offer bilingual education in schools, it would be difficult to choose which language or languages to teach, because there are hundreds of languages spoken in the United