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Saving the Wahyanites
知情者的忠告
面對事實
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自反而縮，雖千萬人，吾往矣
Why didn’t I enjoy an annual remuneration of over $800,000?
My letter of Application for the Post of Assistant Principal
HK500,000, a Disproof or an Alternative wanted
Is an admission rate of 75.5% too far-fetched ?
Is any of these the real reason against the Vocablearning Project ?
The Will is Strong but the Flesh is Weak
譚校長是在誤導大家嗎？
Presentation Slides presented to the School Management Committee
People Often Don’t Want to Hear the Truth
Leaflets to stakeholders
Why Vocablearning?
Understand the difficulties encountered by an ordinary Wahyanite
System Thinking – Creating a virtuous circle of learning
How did the project start and what was the result so far?
Result in action (a television Interview)
Effect of not knowing the words beyond Oxford 3000 word list
Importance of Vocabulary in all kinds of language related learning (Video)
Comments from Parents and Students
Lessons from Life: Perseverance Is the Key to the Success in Everything
Answers to Queries
A foreign language is best learnt in context.
Students don’t need to know so many words.
Learning vocabulary through Vocablearning has no advantage over guessing from context
Students can guess the meaning of the unfamiliar words that they encountered.
The scheme may have adverse effect on English learning, in particular, the students will misuse the words that they learn through the scheme.
Learning Vocabulary is not as important as other aspects in learning a language.
The school is using English Builder and Vocablearning is a duplicated effort.
Even though the students have marked improvement, it cannot prove that there is no other more significant factor affecting the performance of a student.
The promised improvement seems to be miraculous and questionable.
About a quarter of the students got an “H” in the assessment, so the exercise should be discontinued.
The exercise can be carried out as a voluntary activity.
The scheme by-passed the formal decision making channel
The scheme costs the school $4500 a month.
Paul Yip may have financial interest in the project.
Reference and Related Materials
Who am I ?
Background
Paul Yip
Paul Yip之二
青出於藍・之一
Paul Yip 教英文
幾幾乎不
再談Paul Yip
Links
Vocablearning
Does reading make you smarter – Matthew Effects?
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Why Vocablearning?
Result in action (a television Interview)
http://www.vocablearning.com/VideoArchiveBackup/interviewWithGrace.mp4
青出於藍・之一
Paul Yip 教英文
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