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    This document discusses Vietnam's National Foreign Languages Project from 2020. It outlines several challenges facing foreign language education in Vietnam, including teachers' low English proficiency, outdated teaching methods, and overcrowded classrooms. However, it also notes opportunities like government commitment, social demand, and new technologies that can help improve English learning. The project's goals are to help Vietnamese students achieve English proficiency levels to use the language confidently by 2020. Key tasks include establishing a proficiency framework, implementing new English programs in schools, training teachers abroad, and reforming exams to assess all language skills. International cooperation is needed in areas like teacher training and operating language schools and centers.

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    NATIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGES PROJECT 2020

    (E 2020 PROJECT)

    (Beijing, 9,10 September 2012)

    Dang Thuy Chi


    International Cooperation Department
    Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam
    NFLP 2020
    A. Challenges and Opportunities?
    B. Project: Objectives, Tasks
    C. Possible Solutions
    D. International cooperation
    E. Some suggestions
    A. Challenges

    1. WTO, APEC, FDI, Hi-tech investment.


    2. FTI, Asian Community after 2015
    3. Employability skill requirements
    4. Teachers: low proficiency, lack of training
    5. Students: poor self study, lack of LLL
    6. Teacher centered approach dominates
    7. Vocab, grammar and translation exams
    8. Over crowded classes: 50 -100
    Primary English Teachers’ proficiency Levels

    97 % under qualified

    35
    30
    25
    20
    Trình TA
    15
    10
    5
    0
    D i A1 A2 B1 B2 C1
    A1

    4/31
    Lower Secondary English Teachers’ proficiency Levels

    93 % under qualified
    50
    45
    40
    35
    30
    25 Trình TA
    20
    15
    10
    5
    0
    D i A1 A2 B1 B2 C1
    A1

    5/31
    High School English Teachers’ proficiency Levels

    98 % under qualified
    60

    50

    40

    30 Trình TA

    20

    10

    0
    D i A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2
    A1

    6/31
    B. Opportunities
    1. Government
    commitment
    2. High social
    demands and
    expectations
    3. Fast development
    of CNTT: 7.5
    million PC for
    education
    B. Opportunities
    4. New solutions for English
    learning: Internet, Open
    courseware, TV
    5. Strong supports and
    cooperation from
    international
    Governments,
    universities
    (scholarships,
    exchanges, training
    courses, workshops and
    conferences etc.).
    C. Decision 1400 by PM
    Decision 1400/Q -TTg dated 30 September, 2008 of the Prime Minister on the
    Approval of the Project entitled “Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages in the
    National Education System, Period 2008-2020”

    Goal:
    ... by 2020 most Vietnamese students graduating
    from secondary, vocational schools, colleges
    and universities will be able to use a foreign
    language confidently in their daily
    communication, their study and work in an
    integrated, multi-cultural and multi-lingual
    environment, making foreign languages a
    comparative advantage of development for
    Vietnamese people in the cause of
    industrialization and modernization for the
    country”.
    2. Tasks
    1. Establish Vietnam’s language proficiency
    framework consisting of 6 levels to be
    compatible with the Common European
    Framework of Reference
    2. Implement new compulsory English
    programs for schools: Primary school
    (A1), lower secondary (A2); high school,
    college and university (B1).
    3. Teach Math and science subjects in
    English at high schools: Need to train
    Math teachers
    3. Conversion Table
    2. Tasks

    4. Teach university courses at senior year in


    English: ICT, Engineering, Tourism,
    Business, Nursing etc. ESP for lecturers,
    curriculum development
    5. Train the trainers at foreign universities:
    Mater and PhD
    6. Renovate tests, exams to cover all 4
    language skills. Train item writers, oral
    and written graders
    7. ICT in English language teaching and
    learning: software and application
    AREAS FOR COOPERATION
    Partner with Regional Teacher
    Development Centers (RTDC) in Vietnam
    Proficiency and methodology for teacher
    training for local DOETs
    Operate language centers, schools
    Run TESOL certificate programs, train
    testers (graders), test item writers
    Train lectures to teach their courses in
    English at college and universities
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR LISTENING

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