Ever since Chinese was used as a medium of teaching
students feel fear, alienated and want to shun from English
This reflects in their lack of an English sense & feel
in their writing
They read not, they write little
Teachers teach a lot, but have no time for consolidation
Some don’t even have time to mark enough compositions
Therefore, they assign less
And students write even less

The whole school, every form is in danger
Our Titanic, which has been sailing steadily for years,
may not necessarily stay afloat next year

Parents give their children to you
hoping that you will churn out something
So pressure we have though some may not feel it

Our target
is not only the F.4, not only the cream
It's the big bunch in the middle.
The bottom few, if they can't be helped
let them go,
quietly

But at the beginning, you have to assign
You have to check their homework, classwork, be tight, demand! So they feel you are demanding.

Our approach
Speak English in Class
give them something solid they can hold on to
give them a reasonable amount of work in class
but let them work a lot at home, on their own

Our materials:
Back to basics
They must read, and write
That's our demand, bottom line.

Our students don’t like English
21 in 2C
29 in 2D
17 in 3A
16 in 3B
Quantity may not become quality
But quantity do guarantee those willing ones take in
what you give them
So
Be firm, have some demand

 A summary of the Principal’s ideas after chatting with him on 5^th February in his office

 Invitation for reflection:

1. In language learning, there is something called the affective filter(Krashen). When it is low, they take in a lot. When it is high, we can’t get anything in them. Now how do we deal with the fact that ‘most students don’t like English’ ?
2. Affective filter don’t seem to be taken care of in the principal’s agenda.If they hate English, they wont take in, no matter how much you give them. So how do you make them like to learn, just ignore it?‘Don’t talk about motivation!’?
3. There are some who like English, how about we find out why they like it.

4 .  Please scribble any ideas you have, whether you think they are useful or crappy.

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