Recently, the winners of the 4th "Heblin English Reading" National Excellent Course Competition have been released. Lizzy Wei and her students from Shude International won the first prize in this competition.

The "Heblin English Novel Reading" National Excellent Course Competition, co-sponsored by the China Foreign Language Strategy Research Center and Shanghai Overseas Language Education Publishing House, is an important event that has received wide attention and strong support from the basic education circles of all provinces and cities across the country, attracting the active and wide participation of primary and secondary school teachers across the country.

As one of the most well-known international department in Chengdu, high-quality extracurricular reading has always been advocated and practiced by Shude International.The novel chosen was Dracula by British writer Bram Stoker. It is also the novel listed in the reference books by the organizing committee. The book tells the story of the vampire Count Dracula and his old enemy Van Helsing in the form of letters, diaries and news reports. Because the English proficiency of students in Shude International Department is very high (the average TOEFL score of some Grade 10 classes has reached 104), there is a high learning need for literary reading. If the teacher only leads students to do text analysis, draw character map, write plot summary, etc., it is unable to meet the students' English level and cognitive ability. Therefore, the whole classroom adopts the constructivist theory and scafolding teaching method to guide students to think independently on difficult points. Teachers become helpers of learning rather than knowledge indoctrinations. At the same time, based on the school mission of Shude International to cultivate “national builders with global competence”, Lizzy also weaves Chinese stories into text analysis and cultivates students' cultural thinking ability.