Magazine opens up the world

Trần Thị Thúy’s world opened up after she read a magazine that was in both Vietnamese and English. She then became an English teacher. Her classroom has often been on a computer screen because she wants her students to make friends all over the world.

English teacher makes dream come true

Teacher Trần Thị Thúy uses innovative methods to help local students study English and connect with thousands of friends around the world.

National foreign language project fails to fulfill targets

An English survey conducted in 2015 on 4th and 5th year students of HCM City’s Transport University showed fewer than 20 per cent of students could reach the output criteria.

Good assessment helps improve English teaching: symposium

Their huge workload, limited teaching hours and large numbers of students in classes prevent teachers from improving their classroom-based assessment practices, considered vital to improving English teaching, an expert has said.

Foreign language project falling short of "unrealistic" goals

The national foreign language project was threatened to be failed to meet its target by 2020 and drastic measures should be adopted to make it feasible, said Education Minister Phùng Xuân Nhạ.

UK, VN collaborate to raise English-teaching standards

This year’s British Council New Directions in English Language and Assessment conference will be held in Hà Nội on 13 and 14 October 2016.

Educators urge more training for English-language teachers English-language teachers need continued professional training to achieve national foreign-language targets by 2020, education officials have urged.

UK publisher to advise on English textbooks The Viet Nam Education Publishing House on Tuesday hired UK-based publisher Pearson Education South Asia PTE Ltd as a consultant for publication of English textbooks for the seventh and 10th grades.

English teachers to get more training Six hundred teachers at junior high school level will have their language and teaching skills improved under a training agreement signed on Saturday.

Viet Nam to get tough on English Education and training departments in many provinces and cities have drawn up plans to improve the quality of local English teachers through further training after discovering that most achieved very low scores in international English tests.