We have four goals for our students:
✓ To develop students into independent learners Students are already doing this: when they read their text books and do their school homework by themselves. Our email courses are confirming that they already know how to do this, and we are training them to do this well. If students are not reading their textbooks and doing their homework by themselves, our courses will give them the confidence to do so.
✓ To develop students' confidence in their writing talents and abilities (a long term solution rather than a short term solution) Students become confident in writing, when they can apply their writing abilities to any writing situation. For composition writing: It is the ability to write confidently and score on any composition title. For comprehension: It is the ability to answer any question in any comprehension passage correctly, fully and in their own words where necessary. For secondary and 'A' level students this also includes writing concise and clear summaries.
Memorisation does not help build students' confidence. In fact, it undermines students' confidence in themselves. When students are told that they need to memorise composition models to reproduce word-for-word in the exams, students hear that they do not have the writing talent and abilities to score in the exams. When students are told they need to memorise big words and phrases in compositions, students hear that again they do not have the ability to write higher scoring compositions. This does not help, but hinders, students belief in their own writing talents and abilities.
Students become more anxious in the exams rather than more confident, because they have to remember the words and phrases; and they are not sure how and when to use the words and phrases. It also does not work because composition titles in the exams may be different from what students have memorised. Teachers are also unlikely to give students higher marks when all students' have the same words and phrases in their compositions. (For the short term, while we build students' writing abilities and talents, we have provided students with our free 'Big Book of 200 phrases', which explains how to use words and phrases correctly in compositions.)
Reading is still the best way to acquire a large vocabulary and gives each student an individual way to write compositions, which results in higher marks. Like reading, our email courses provide a long term solution, which is developing students' writing talents and abilities. This will be useful and rewarding to students in school, university and for the rest of their lives.
✓ To develop students' love of the English Language through the development of students' writing skills.
✓ To give sincere and total dedication to our students so as to draw out and develop their unique writing abilities therefore becoming confident to score in the exams.
When you invest in our courses for your children, you are investing in the success of your children in school and for the rest of their lives. This we guarantee.
Click on links in green below to read more about:
K Rajamanikam (Raja) our master teacher
Merle Celine Magness, our Director
Primary Schools we have taught
Secondary Schools we have taught