Holistic English Goals
In the Holistic English Program we do NOT teach English language or English culture.
We facilitate English communication at whatever level the students find themselves capable. There is no individual mandatory accomplishment level to be obtained. In other words, the academic pressure is completely off.
The goals of Holistic English, in their order of priority are:
- Correct the 4 Great Lies the students have been told for the past 10 – 16 years.
- Confidence to speak (Chinglish is OK)
- Self-discipline
- Intrinsic motivation
- Autonomous learning skills
- Creative thinking
- Expanded world view
As the above goals are reached the students will experience growth and development in their listening, speaking, writing, and reading abilities.
Holistic English is a process of growth and development that can not be measured incrementally. No single class can be evaluated on what was learned by any particular student. The assessment comes at the end of the process.
What is important is motivating the student’s interests.
The most problem that chinese students can not spesk English is that they have no confidence to spesk English,to expression themselves.They afried that there pronunce is not perfect.This problem also in my.
Though chinese students have learned English for many years,they have no chances to use it.They learn English just at shool,so it’s difficult for them to learn well.In order to import the student’s level,they should be given more speaking reading and writing opportunities.
Holistic English is not a fixed method to teach but a free and supercalafragalisticexpiadoctious way to learn English in which you can use any kind of methods to as long as it is effictively! As for me ,I don’t like the blinding mode of learning English at all,so Holistic English is the best way for me to improve my English.I like is more than I can say when first contacing!
I’m so happy to be your student!I’m sure I can imprve my English via your Goals!!!
As to my experience to learn to speak English, I think the confidence to speak is really important. The reason that I have not spoken English fluently by the time even though I have learnt English for so long time is lack of practising.But the reason of being lack of speaking is lack of confidence.And the reason of being lack of confidense is that I alwars been corrected when I make mistakes in conversations.As the time goes by,I have less and less confidence and have less and less practices.So I think the permissibility for mistakes is also very significant to learning to speak English
Without question,The Holistic Program is designed greatly and I like it very much.If our previous English class can be taken like this,I think our students’ English can be much better than now.
This class give us brave to speak English without feeling afraid. I like it.
What we need is the environment to speak English.In the Chinese spoken environment ,we have no courage to speak out our poor oral English .In this class ,we don’t have so many misgivings .It is very helpful for us to improve English .
It is very important that the goal which we are to complete is very encential to our future development.So we must make a goal in the daylife and work.If we do so ,we will make more efforts to do the good thngs and our life becomes more meaningful.
For this goal really different with other english teaching method,and make me exciting,I have never experience it before,and I confident in believing that my english listening will better than before,for I have learned english for ten years,but what I feel is that for these ten years,I learn little about it,my listening,writing,speaking are so poor.
Professor tells us that we must learn to use English even we think we won’t have the chance to go abroad. It is a language for communication. Though after class we are tired of much homework, our English improved much. I think we if we can consider English learning as a kind of entertainment we may get much from it .
I think it is a great chance to speak english.I like it very much.