Lacking money, teachers, English program goes at snail’s pace

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VietnamNet English 1 week(s) ago

Lacking money, teachers, English program goes at snail’s pace

VietNamNet Bridge – In the 2012-2013 academic year, only 20 percent of first graders in HCM City could learn English in accordance with the 2020 national foreign language teaching program.

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School daze

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 1 month(s) ago

School daze

It’s selfish, I know, but I was grateful when I first learned that Vietnam had made the teaching of English as a foreign language a national priority. The only language I speak is Russian, which had supplanted French – all quite pragmatic on the path to “market-oriented socialism” in a globalized economy in which English is the language of international business.

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Vietnamese children get confused with too many English certificates

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VietnamNet English 2 month(s) ago

Vietnamese children get confused with too many English certificates

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese parents urge their children to attend foreign language training courses and attend the exams for certificates, even though they don’t understand the meaning of every certificate in the “forest” of certificates.

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Vietnam hires Filipino teachers despite concerns

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 1 month(s) ago

Vietnam hires Filipino teachers despite concerns

Despite the debate over the use of Filipino English teachers in Ho Chi Minh City, local education officials have decided to hire them as part of a national English improvement project.

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Lecturer pans ministry for testing English teachers

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 1 month(s) ago

Lecturer pans ministry for testing English teachers

A college lecturer in English slams the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) for suddenly checking local English teachers’ language command against a European framework, saying it is “unfair” and “arbitrary.”

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English teaching in Vietnam: Teacher ‘re-education’

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 2 month(s) ago

English teaching in Vietnam: Teacher ‘re-education’

English learning and teaching have been a bone of contention for years in Vietnam as teacher qualifications and assessment methodologies are blamed for students’ failure to use the language in real life. These two issues are a major problem.

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Ministry asks students to disregard rumour on change in curriculum

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SaiGon GP English 2 month(s) ago

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Publisher wins VND 700 mil copyright lawsuit for first time

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SaiGon GP English 2 month(s) ago

Publisher wins VND 700 mil copyright lawsuit for first time

Publisher First News has announced it was compensated with VND 700 million by American International School of Foreign Language Training in Hanoi for reprinting English language books that First News has been given exclusive rights to copy in Vietnam by a foreign publisher.
Books illegally reprinted by American International School of Foreign Language Training

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Learning society in the pipeline

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Hanoi Times English 4 month(s) ago

The Hanoitimes - Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has given the green light to a project to create a society of learning for the 2012-2020 period.

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Study-abroad consultant regulations tightened

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Báo Dân Trí English 4 month(s) ago

Study-abroad consultant regulations tightened

Consultancy organisations for study abroad must deposit VND500 million ($23,800) in a commercial bank to operate in Vietnam, according to a regulation to come into effect on March 10.

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Ambitious plan hailed to lure native English language teachers

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Báo Dân Trí English 4 month(s) ago

Ambitious plan hailed to lure native English language teachers

Thousands of native-English speakers will be invited to work in Vietnam for language teaching under a recently signed education cooperation agreement.

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Study-abroad consultant regulations tightened

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VietNam News English 4 month(s) ago

Consultancy organisations for study abroad must deposit VND500 million (US$23,800) in a commercial bank to operate in Viet Nam, according to a regulation to come into effect on March 10.

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Project to build learning society approved

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Hanoi Times English 4 month(s) ago

The Hanoitimes - A project to create a society of learning for the 2012-2020 period has been approved by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan.

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English teaching not up to expectations

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VietNam News English 4 month(s) ago

English teaching not up to expectations

The beginner-level class has only 10 students, who practice with up-to-date textbooks and CDs and sometimes are even taught by an English teacher, he said. After only three months, his English skills rapidly improved.

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Project to build learning society approved

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Nhân dân English 4 month(s) ago

A project to create a society of learning for the 2012-2020 period has been approved by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan.

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