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Aaron Chen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nHsinchu, Taiwan<\/p>\n
Reason for Induction:<\/p>\n
Becoming a DreyerCoaching.com<\/a> student when he was in seventh grade, Aaron has taken both year-long writing classes<\/a> as well as a Chinese New Year intensive class reading the novel 1984<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In early 2017 he applied for a highly-competitive program run by the governments of Taiwan and Israel<\/a>, called International Convention for Environmental Leadership in Israel. Taiwan has over 20 million people, and only ten are chosen for this program each year<\/em>.<\/strong> About two hundred students applied and they had to submit two essays–one in English and one in Chinese–explaining why they wanted to join the group. Aaron told me his writing class<\/a> helped him, especially with word choice, organization, and grammar. Twenty finalists were selected for interviews in Taipei–and Aaron was one! He obviously impressed the interviewers, because he was one of the ten<\/span> chosen to join, and next thing you know, he was flying to Israel<\/a>! What a great way to “go above and beyond<\/a>” and help foster international understanding and cooperation!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can read about a day in Aaron’s trip to Israel in this blog post<\/a>. <\/p>\n His story in English His story in Chinese <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hong Kong<\/p>\n Reason for Induction:<\/p>\n Cindy joined DreyerCoaching.com<\/a> in its early days–around Chinese New Year 2011, during Scott’s first year teaching online full-time. Cindy was just our second student in Mainland China, and our first student in South China, Shenzhen.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When she started her DreyerCoaching.com basic English class<\/a>, she could not understand what Scott said and she could hardly speak English either. However, she persevered<\/a> with a great attitude daily, and with her mother’s constant help and encouragement at her side, she gradually was able to both speak and understand spoken English. She attended classes faithfully year by year, without stopping. At least twice she came to the USA and visited us with us here in Roanoke, Virginia, which also boosted her English skills, confidence, and willingness to “press on<\/a>.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By the time she was in high school, she scored in the TOP 1% in English skills in all of Shenzhen, a city with almost 12 million people! Later, thanks to her work ethic and English skills, she was admitted to an American school in Hong Kong. In 2017 she earned an impressive 110 on her TOEFL. Fantastic success story!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the spring of 2019, she gained acceptance to New York University. Congratulations to Cindy! <\/p>\n Hear Cindy’s story in her own words in this video.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Vinton, Virginia USA<\/p>\n Reason for Induction:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Deron came to us in the fall of 2014, when his mother saw a poster on a bulletin board at her church explaining our services. He joined both a vocabulary<\/a> and a writing class <\/a>that year. A US citizen by birth, he had attended school in Utah<\/a> up through grade 2 and thus had a strong English foundation. However, he had lived and attended grades 3-8 in Hsinchu, Taiwan so his English had gotten a bit rusty. His online classes helped him boost his fluency.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Later in 2014, his mother asked me about letting him attend school in the US. We arranged for his family to visit us here in Virginia<\/a> over Chinese New Year 2015, where he toured two schools. He made his choice, and that fall moved in with us and began ninth grade. He has been a consistently pleasant host student to live with, and he has done consistently well with his school work, earning a high GPA. During his junior year of high school, he took on the additional challenge of taking online college classes that will give him dual-enrollment credit. In addition to his excellent English and Chinese, he took on the challenge of learning college German this year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On most Sundays–one of his days off–he wakes up early on his own volition<\/a> to catch a ride to church where he manages the PPT and projection system, for both the 8:00 a.m. worship practice and 10:00 a.m. service. At this point, Deron is one of those rare and blessed people who is essentially a native speaker of both English AND Chinese. Deron is making his community a better place! <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Update May 2021:<\/strong> After high school graduation, Deron attended two years of a Virginia community college. This is a great option for many families. Students can earn full college credits for two years, and parents can easily save thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. After his two strong years at a community college, Deron gained admission to the prestigious University of Virginia. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n His story in English His story in Chinese <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hsinchu, Taiwan<\/p>\n Reason for Induction: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n From the Summer of 2007 until 2013, my family and I presented a Summer Institute of Champions on the campus of the International Bilingual High School in Hsinchu (IBSH<\/a>), Taiwan, helping students with their English, and Ricky was one of our summer campers back then, starting in 2010.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He participated successfully in those camps, and he also registered for our online classes<\/a> when we began to offer those. In fact, as I write this in March 2019, Ricky has attended DreyerCoaching.com<\/a> English classes, non-stop, longer than any other student! For that reason alone, Ricky belongs in the Hall of Fame, but there is much more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ricky attended grades 1 and 2 in Singapore, where the instruction was in British English. In third grade, his family moved back to Taiwan where he attended grades 3-5 at the Hsinchu Bilingual School, where he had to study Chinese and the main language spoken was AMERICAN, not British, English. However, as he prepared to enter middle school, his parents decided to transfer him to a Chinese-language school, the prestigious National Experimental High School in the Hsinchu Science Park. In that rigorous school, which he attended from grades 6-12, all the instruction for all classes was in Chinese, except for an ESL class, which was very basic for Ricky’s level. Such adjustments from British English to American and then to Chinese instruction would be a difficult adjustment for anyone, but Ricky has handled it masterfully.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Also, when he was in fifth grade preparing to enter the Chinese middle school, Ricky, his mother, and I discussed a strategy to keep his English skills sharp, despite his moving to the new school. Over the decades I have observed many students move from an English to a Chinese school, and their English skills go downhill. In this case, Ricky and his mother decided to keep him with DreyerCoaching.com<\/a> classes, two or three times a week, both advanced vocabulary<\/a> and writing<\/a>. Even though he has been in the Chinese-language school for seven years and is now a high school senior, I am DELIGHTED to report that his English is still at a native or near-native level, and he tells me his continued studies with DreyerCoaching.com, where he gets “real English” delivered to his home several evenings a week, have helped him do this.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In late 2017, he took the TOEIC<\/a> exam and achieved a 950 (perfect score is 990), far exceeding the average Taiwan score on that exam (534)<\/a> by over 400 points. His TOEFL was a whopping 113 ( perfect score is 120) and his SAT an impressive 1390! Congratulations to Ricky, for always having diligence, focus, and a great attitude. Plus, he has demonstrated that a person can study in an all-Chinese environment but with DreyerCoaching.com, maintain a native-speaker English level! <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As I write this in March 2019, Ricky has received college offers from Purdue, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Virginia Tech! Ricky eventually chose to attend Purdue University. Congratulations to Ricky!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hsinchu, Taiwan<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tim’s Story:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Update May 2020:<\/strong> Tim attends the University of California and Berkeley. <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u8ddf\u968f\u5353\u6587\u8001\u5e08\u7ebf\u4e0a\u5b66\u4e60\u82f1\u8bed\u5df2\u7ecf\u4e00\u5e74\u591a\u4e86\uff0c\u638c\u63e1\u4e86\u5f88\u591a\u9ad8\u6df1\u7684\u5355\u8bcd\u548c\u5730\u9053\u7684\u7f8e\u8bed\u8868\u8fbe\u65b9\u5f0f\uff0c\u8bed\u6cd5\u53d1\u97f3\u4e5f\u90fd\u63d0\u5347\u5f88\u591a\uff0c\u5e76\u4e14\u80fd\u66f4\u52a0\u5a34\u719f\u81ea\u4fe1\u7684\u7528\u82f1\u8bed\u63a2\u8ba8\u7b80\u5355\u5b66\u672f\u95ee\u9898\u3002\u5353\u6587\u8001\u5e08\u535a\u5b66\u591a\u8bc6\uff0c\u7279\u522b\u4e13\u4e1a\u656c\u4e1a\uff0c\u70ed\u60c5\u5730\u4e0e\u5bb6\u957f\u4fdd\u6301\u6c9f\u901a\uff0c\u968f\u65f6\u53cd\u9988\u5b66\u4e60\u60c5\u51b5\uff0c\u8fd8\u79ef\u6781\u5e2e\u52a9\u89e3\u51b3\u7ebf\u4e0a\u7f51\u7edc\u7b49\u6280\u672f\u6545\u969c\uff0c\u5c24\u5176\u662f\u4ed6\u7684\u4e2d\u6587\u4e5f\u7279\u522b\u68d2\uff0c\u6c9f\u901a\u8d77\u6765\u987a\u7545\u597d\u591a\u3002\u8c22\u8c22\u53cb\u5584\u53ef\u7231\u7684\u5353\u6587\u8001\u5e08\uff0c\u5e2e\u52a9\u6211\u6253\u5f00\u4e86\u5168\u65b0\u7684\u82f1\u8bed\u5b66\u4e60\u4e4b\u8def\uff01 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ryan Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n Hsinchu & Taipei, Taiwan<\/p>\n Reason for Induction: <\/p>\n In English we have a saying, “So-and-so should be a poster child for that group.” <\/p>\n <\/p>\n That means, a particular person is the ideal embodiment of an organization. group, or cause. (The fancy word for this is quintessential<\/em><\/a>.) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, writing this post welcoming him to the Hall of Fame, I think “Ryan Chen is the poster child<\/a> for DreyerCoaching.” (Of course Ryan is now a young man and not a child, but the metaphor still works.) Here is Ryan’s story:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ryan first joined DreyerCoaching<\/a> for our Summer Camp of Champions, held at the International Bilingual School in the Hsinchu Science Park, in July 2013. My daughter Harmony and I were the teachers that summer, and Ryan immediately stood out head and shoulders<\/a> in his class by virtue of his already strong English and–more importantly–willingness to use it freely<\/em>. We asked him why he already understood so much. It turned out, Ryan had lived in California for a few years as a very young child, so he had a strong foundation in English. However, he had been back in Taiwan and attending an all-Chinese school for several years. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n That summer of 2013, Ryan was a rising 5th grader.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since my first arrival in Taiwan in 1989, I cannot count how many children I have met who move back to Taiwan with excellent English. However, as the years go by, they lose their English and it gradually morphs into “Chinglish<\/a>.” Seeing that happen over and over to so many people hurts my heart and almost drives me crazy! And what I find really frustrating is, it is totally avoidable!<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n After class one day that summer, Ryan’s mother invited Harmony and me to join her for lunch so we could all get better acquainted. His mother herself has impeccable<\/a> English skills; therefore, she is able to judge for herself what kind of English she wants her children to learn. She is also a sophisticated, professional woman, so she had an open mind to online learning being provided from overseas. In other words, she did not feel she was trapped to only use the traditional, brick-and-mortar<\/a> bushiban<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, before the summer in-person classes were over, she enrolled Ryan in his first online classes with DreyerCoaching for the 2013-14 school year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then, she and her husband kept doing something wonderful. They kept re-enrolling Ryan every year, eight years in a row, and including may summer and Chinese New Year break intensive classes too! <\/em> Ryan began with intermediate-level reading and vocabulary classes<\/a>, then later added writing classes<\/a> and SAT reading and vocabulary classes<\/a>. As a result, from grades 5 – 12, Ryan kept getting personalized English instruction from an experienced, native speaker of American English. <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Over the years, we have seen many students join DreyerCoaching for a short time, then they stop. The parents often tell me, “This year my child has to prepare for Exam A, then next year for Exam B, etc.” Plus, some families often hop around from English program to program, looking for the “perfect school” that will give them some magic “short-cut.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In contrast, Ryan’s parents know there is no “magic short-cut.”<\/em> They know that learning a new language well is a long-term commitment<\/em>.<\/span> They have made the commitment, and it is paying off. In addition to Ryan’s classes, they later enrolled their daughter Eleanor with DreyerCoaching. (See “Most Improved Award<\/a> 2020-2021 1st 9 Weeks.) They have also introduced many family friends to DreyerCoaching, so those friends can benefit too.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (Each spring, when we offer re-enrollment, Ryan’s parents enroll promptly so they can enjoy special loyalty rewards and free bonus classes so their children can keep their English skills growing over the summer.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In these past few years, I have had the pleasure of working with Ryan in the SAT-level classes. I often joke with him that he should win the “most punctual<\/a> award.” He is almost always the first student to log on to every class. Ryan knows every minute counts! But all joking aside, what Ryan has accomplished is truly amazing.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Despite having grown up in the Chinese-language environment of Taiwan, Ryan now has his own impeccable English skills. He speaks with a fluid, American accent. His writing skills are strong, his vocabulary broad, his listening sharp, his grammar excellent. Ryan is always focused, engaged, and respectful. He can engage in a full conversation with native speakers of English and participate 100%. The other DreyerCoaching team teachers are always amazed after a class with Ryan. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ryan will be a freshman at Taipei University in the fall, but his English skills are strong enough that he could easily attend and thrive at a competitive US university if he so chose. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We will miss Ryan but wish him well. He has truly earned his spot in the Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ************* <\/p>\n What is the DreyerCoaching.com Hall of Fame?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n During the 2017-18 school year, Scott’s 10th year teaching English online, he was filled with deep gratitude. Looking back over the past decade, he was profoundly moved by what wonderful students and families the DreyerCoaching.com team <\/a>and he have been blessed to work with, and continue to work with. He was also grateful for the great learning and progress the students have made, and continue to make, over the past ten years. ALL the DreyerCoaching.com students are CHAMPIONS, because they invest the extra time, energy and focus to improve their minds, lives, and English skills. We salute ALL our students! At the same time, Scott realized a certain number of students had been associated with DreyerCoaching.com for a particularly long period of time and had achieved especially remarkable accomplishments. In hopes of recognizing those students and also encouraging all the other students to “go the extra mile<\/a>,” this Hall of Fame was established. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n How is a person inducted?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Students are inducted into the Hall of Fame based on their long-term, positive association with DreyerCoaching.com; their exhibiting our core values;<\/a> and their other ways of “going the extra mile<\/a>.” Examples may include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n
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Cindy Cai<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Deron\"](\"https:\/\/dreyercoaching.com\/beardeddragonmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/deron2.JPG\")
Deron Geng<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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Ricky Li<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n![\"76188354](\"https:\/\/dreyercoaching.com\/beardeddragonmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/76188354_745320099227830_416116686702247936_n.jpg\")
Tim Lin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n![\"IMG](\"https:\/\/dreyercoaching.com\/beardeddragonmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_5089.JPG\")
Lucy Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"IMG](\"https:\/\/dreyercoaching.com\/beardeddragonmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_5088.JPG\")
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