Students Raise Silkworms to Boost Chinese Language Learning NYU Shanghai


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Students Raise Silkworms to Boost Chinese Language Learning Students Raise Silkworms to Boost Chinese Language Learning Mar 26 2021 Weibo About 70 new squirming creatures joined the Chinese department this Spring, as students launched a new initiative to raise silkworms and learn more about Chinese language and culture at the same time. The project is being spearheaded by Lancelot Zhang Qilin ’21, one of the ARC Learning Assistants for Chinese language. “I was brainstorming some activities to go hand-in-hand with textbook learning, and it came to me, ‘Why don’t we do silkworms?’” he said. “A lot of us [Chinese students]...