In fact, Dinny achieved high scores in most English tests in middle school and high school, being the teachers’, especially high school teacher’s favorite student. She was a good student from the traditional perspective of teaching and learning English in China, which emphasized memorization of “forms” such as grammatical rules, vocabulary, sentence patterns and so on. As Dinny revealed, however, she started to “go different way” as soon as she realized “[her] A+, [her] 100 percent marked papers doesn’t mean anything” because she found herself “totally out of place” in an English corner she was brought to by her friend.