Progress Report on Bella

Phase 1 has already finished with scholars’ talent show. Based on the performances of Bella, this report is made to review and evaluate her progress in phase 1.

Understanding of English

General comprehension is the basic ability of foreign students in learning English. Bella behaved averagely in this part, for instance, she could deal with the basic problems in English and did not have much problem in using English after 6-month learning. Meanwhile, for reading comprehension, she was skillful to answer the factual questions after the training of teachers and herself; she was also good in solving inference questions while in the part of understanding words in context, she was quite weak. Consequently, she must focus on vocabulary part and make consistent efforts in phase 2 and phase 3.

Use of English

The use of English is a broad gamut which contains several abilities. The first one is writing ability. Writing contained essay and summary this term. Using academic vocabulary is the basic require. She could use the words appropriately; however, she was poor in vocabulary. Then comes the sentence accuracy; some sentences of her were not so fluent. Nonetheless, paragraphs in her academic writing were well-organized and the transition words used between paragraphs were correct. She could summary the main points well but the synthesis skill was relatively weak. In addition, essay cohesion was good because she could make the structure excellent, but the flow of language needs to be improved by working hard in language and spoken English also needs development in pronunciation and fluency. Last but not the least, she must focus more on self confidence which is significant in delivering opinions and making speeches.

Work attitude towards English lessons and a predictor of future progress

She followed the schedule strictly and attended every class punctually. As for homework, she met the deadline strictly and treated homework seriously. Once found the mistakes, she will try her best to avoid such mistakes in the future. In project Singapore and project happiness, she cooperated with group members harmoniously and sometimes came up with some fresh ideas. On the contrary, she did not do well in references part because she seldom gave references in essays.

Class Participation

Being active in class is the best way to improve one’s English, so it is necessary to evaluate students in class participation part. Class has a good atmosphere of speaking English; however, she sometimes cannot help speaking Chinese to classmates, which was a bad habit. Likewise, this term they had Project Singapore and Project Happiness which trained several good abilities of them. Firstly, they learnt to cooperate with other group members. She did well in this part and came up with some creative ideas. Secondly, they learnt to think fast and answer questions to the point; she did well in project Singapore during the Q&A session but did not answer the question appropriately in Project Happiness. Furthermore, learning to listen patiently to others is also important to students; at this point, she did quite well. Not only did she listen attentively to classmates, but also asked a few questions about their presentations. She participated all the activities actively but did not make them an enriching learning experience to some degree.

To sum up, Bella performed normally but not excellently during phase 1. There is still a long way for her to go in the English world.