Grant Proposal

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Grant Proposal

• Catering for learner diversity

Presented by Mr. Yuen Chi Fai 29-8-07
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Statement of need

• Greater diversity of abilities among our F1
  students in recent years
• Over 90 of the F1 students come from Chinese
  primary schools.
• Under the current 3-banding system, the Band 1
  students are the top 33 instead of the top 20
  as that of the previous 5-banding system.
• Most of them find it difficult to adapt to the
  English learning environment in an EMI school,
  particularly with the existing big class size and
  the insufficient exposure to English Language in
  their daily life.

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Statement of need

• Appropriate support measure required at this
  transitional period
• Wider range of abilities
• Smaller learning groups
• Greater attention for individual students
• Tailor-made teaching materials to address
  different learning needs

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Special Grouping for learning English in F1

• The main objectives include
• helping F1 students adapt to the English learning
  environment in an EMI school
• catering for learner diversity
• developing students confidence mastery skills
  in learning English

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Class Structure in 2006-2007

• F1 2 (mixed abilities)
• Students were randomly allocated into 5 classes
  with 40 students in each class.
• F3
• The top 80-90 students were randomly allocated
  into 2 classes (i.e. F3 A B).
• The remaining students were randomly allocated
  into 3 classes, each of which was split into 2
  groups for language learning (i.e. 6 groups of 20
  students).

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Grouping for English Language Learning in F1
(07-08)

• Division 1 (40 Ss) elite rank 1-40
• Division 2 (35 Ss) rank 41-75
• Division 3 (35 Ss) average rank 76-110
• Division 4 (30 Ss) rank 111-140
• Division 5.1 (20 Ss) rank 141-200
• 5.2 (20 Ss) 5.3
  (20 Ss)

The less able students are randomly allocated
into 3 groups
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Teaching materials for English Language Learning
in F1 (07-08)

• 3 levels of difficulties for- elite students-
  average students- less able students
• An additional textbook for elite students
  (Upstream)
• More language activities
• More interactive approach

for less able students
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Grouping for English Language Learning in F3
(07-08)

• F3A (40 Ss)
• F3B (40 Ss)
• F3C
• F3D
• F3E

The top 80-90 students are randomly allocated
into 2 classes.
The students of these 3 classes are randomly
allocated into 4 groups with approximately 30
students in each group.
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English Language Learning Groups of junior forms
in 08-09

• Hopefully with the support of the SFXC
  Foundation, an additional English teacher can be
  recruited so that the scheme could be extended to
  F2.
• F1 5 classes (7 learning groups)
• F2 5 classes (7 learning groups)
• F3 5 classes (6 learning groups)

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Higher opportunity of academic success
?
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