Trilingualism Through Language Service Reflection

Different from other service learning course, Enhancing Biliteracy and Trilingualism Through Language Service is peculiar and meaningful as this subject provides a valuable opportunity to perceive a deep understanding of the whole life. This course allows us to write life stories to the elderly, which has significantly strengthened our social responsibility. The detailed reflection of the course will be illustrated in depth from the summary of our project, learning outcomes, achievements, difficulties and solutions and further suggestions perspectives in the following part.

The summary of our project

Since we need to write a life story and take a video for the elderly, the whole project involves three main parts: preparation, visit and interview the elderly and write the story or make the video.

To ensure that the abundant information could be obtained by the whole interview, we made some meaningful preparations. Firstly, we conducted a discussion about the interview process and the questions that we need to ask. Based on the knowledge learned in the seminar, the

These skills tend to be also helpful for us to interacting with others. Therefore, my social competence, especially communication capability, has been improved remarkably. In addition, as this course is related to writing Chinese story, it has considerably strengthened my bilingual ability. In the seminar, some excellent essays were analyzed in depth, leading to my mastery of various writing techniques. Also, although I was not responsible for shooting, I also learnt some useful shooting and making peculiar videos skills in the seminars. As far as I am concerned, the course can perfectly combine the theoretical knowledge with the practical utilization, which can be beneficial for us to acquire these skills taught in the