Vietnam: According to VietnamNews, a school offering instruction in both Vietnamese and English will open next September in An Giang Province. The Provincial People’s Committee and Department of Education and Training have spent more VND4 billion (US$226,000) to build the first bilingual school in Long Xuyen City’s My Hoa District. Construction has begun on the [...]
Vietnam: Low efficiency in teaching English at universities is a thorny issue (nothing to do with the students, obviously), especially since the State has invested money and resources in improving courses. A first-year student at the Ha Noi National University summarised his English learning process from the sixth grade to university as a stretch of [...]
Vietnam: Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Education and Training Banh Tien Long has asked universities to help students improve their English so that they can use it confidently and competently by 2015. Mr Long said that to improve the quality of teaching and English language skills, universities should attach more importance to upgrading infrastructure [...]
With English language centres seemingly on every street in HCM City, local educators and officials question the quality of instruction available at many of these schools. According to Nguyen Van Cuong, an official with the city’s Education and Training Department, many of these centres exist not to meet pedagogical requirements but to make big profits.
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In 1996, The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) kicked off the trial programme on teaching English as an optional subject to primary school students, reports Vietnamnet. 12 years later, the ministry plans to teach English as a compulsory subject to primary school students throughout the country, though there still exist a lot of problems [...]
English will be taught from the primary school onwards under a program that the Prime Minister has just approved, an official of the Ministry of Education and Training said Thursday.
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Thousands of youth volunteers have been doing social work for the last three weeks under Ho Chi Minh City’s Green Summer campaign, with nearly 200 students teaching children and workers English and other languages in the city.
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Nguyen Ky Nam, PhD, of Australian nationality, has noted that when he returned to Vietnam in 2006, he spent a lot of time choosing a school for his son, Ky Anh, who had finished the first class in Australia. Nam wanted his son not only to speak English fluently and understand foreign cultures, but also [...]
Every time I present one of my ELT news roundups, it really sinks in how little the buggers in power know about language teaching. No matter where you are in the world, it seems there’s some moron beating on about some new initiative absolutely guaranteed to strike fear into the hearts of any self-respecting TEFLer. [...]
I myself have never had the dubious pleasure of teaching English in Asia. For those of you who have, or are, or will, here’s the latest lowdown on TEFL in the Asia Pacific region:
Vietnam: Teaching English: TOEIC Suitable to Vietnam?
Many, ahem, ‘experts’ say that TOEIC (Test of English International Communication) will not be suitable to [...]
