Pui+Tak+Canossian+College

This is a very nice catholic school for girls in Aberdeen. When I was still teaching there (which was a year ago), they had an independent English learning program for all their students. I think they should still be having it now. In this program, students were encouraged to be responsible for their English learning and practise their English outside the classroom making use of whatever resources they find helpful to them. These included online ESL resources, songs, movies, grammar practice books and even exam practice if this was what they decided as helpful to them. At the beginning of the term, students were required to decide the skills they would like to improve and some training and examples were introduced to them to give them ideas about what they could do to achieve what they wanted to achieve. They were then asked to draw up a plan about what exactly and how often they were going to do to improve their target skills. Oh well, this is simply too much to talk about in so short a time in this workshop, so maybe if you are interested, you could contact me to find out more.

Ciao! Ada Lam