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woodschan says it made a huge difference.
\you could see a huge shift in the way that not only the mam - speaking students regarded the importance of learning mam and having it visible, but also in the way that the other students received it,\ woodschan said.
woodschan saw the difference in her students. she said they grew more confident after seeing their own languages on the whiteboard and hearing it in the video clips. they started making friends with each other - across cultural lines. other students who were not in that class would come in and see something written in mam on the board and exclaim, \hey, thats mam! i speak mam!\
researchers at the graduate center of city university of new york say when students see their home languages displayed in the classroom or around the school, they feel more comfortable at school, and it helps students feel like experts if they are asked to share their knowledge of their home language with their peers.
expertise in other languages can help woodschans students beyond the classroom, too. indigenous 1 languages like mam are becoming more and more common in the united states. several thousand mam speakers are estimated to now live in oakland, adding to a larger mayan community in the bay area. some oakland graduates have gone on to become mam - english interpreters to help fill a lack of indigenous - language interpreters in all kinds of settings, from schools to hospitals to courts.
11 - year - old willido, from guatemala, says woodschans video project made him happy because \everyone wanted to learn mam.\ he was also happy to learn some arabic, though he only remembers how to say hala hala, which is a greeting like \hi.\

1. the phrase \cultural lines\ in paragraph 7 refers to -

o a. misinterpretations of what a word means in another language.
o b. similarities between groups of people from different backgrounds.
o c. differences between groups of people from different backgrounds.
o d. the location of another persons country of origin on map or globe.

Explanation:

The phrase "cultural lines" in the context of students from different backgrounds (as the text discusses students with various home languages and cultural heritages) refers to differences between groups of people from different backgrounds. The text mentions students interacting across these "lines", which are barriers due to different cultural and background - related aspects.

Answer:

C. differences between groups of people from different backgrounds.