Progress Report on Cindy

Cindy is a talented, energetic and studious girl. Always with a sweet smile, she gets along well with classmates and tutors. She behaves well in class, and her hard work after class is obvious reflected through the examinations, oral presentations and essays. During the English study in Phase 1, Cindy has already progress a lot in many respects, but she also need to improve in some aspects

Understanding of English

Cindy’s general comprehension of English is good. According to reading passages in RATJ and reading comprehension papers, we can see that Cindy is able to understand the whole passage and choose the right answers for most questions. She can quickly find the sentences closely related to the question, and infer the answer by looking through the context. However, Cindy’s vocabulary is still limited, which might lead to confusion and misunderstanding. Therefore, she should keep taking down unfamiliar words and memorize them.

Use of English

It is obvious that Cindy is trying her best to use English appropriately in speaking as well as in writing. She organizes her essays well before writing and edits a lot after finishing the first draft. So vocabulary is relatively academic and formal, and she uses transition words to make essays flow fluently. She follows a plan throughout her essay and clearly presents the thesis statement so that paragraphs develop naturally. Cindy is able to write out the main idea of a passage, but the words used in the summary are not so accurate. Additionally, she is able to speak out her opinion confidently though her utterances aren’t fluent enough and there are some grammatical errors.

Work attitude towards English lessons and a predictor of future progress

Cindy is struggling student and she’s always eager to learn new things. She attends every class on time. She also finishes her homework seriously and makes effort after class. Apart from listening carefully to tutors, she also reads other novels in English, English magazines and visits some websites which help writing better essays and using English correctly. When working in a group, she is able to cooperate with other group members and dose her role responsibly whenever she is leader or not.

Class participation

In the classroom, Cindy uses English instead of Chinese as much as possible. When she is doing a group project, she is able to come up with some ideas and persuade other members to agree with her. She is enthusiastic to make the group project or class activities better by making some comments and doing what she has to. In oral presentation, she listens attentively. But she seldom asks questions. She is likely to be too shy to ask a question. She should improve this by constantly speaking in public.