This study drew light on educational product constituents, discussed students¡¦ needs in higher education and attempted to find out the connection between Taiwan¡¦s educational supply and Vietnamese demands in terms of products in education. The final purpose of this research is to contribute to Taiwan¡¦s foreign student recruitment strategy in the midst of globalization. A questionnaire survey was conducted on Vietnamese students (experienced and inexperienced) who are the most dominant group of foreign students in Taiwan. The study produced four major findings: 1. The common core need of Vietnamese students in the pursuit of overseas higher education was to gain foreign degree for a better career prospects. 2. Fourteen factors were ranked in importance in which Availability of appropriate faculty, Quality of lecturers, Quality of teaching methods, Recognition of the qualifications in Vietnam, Curriculum, Cost of living, Tuition fee, Quality of academic facilities and Financial aids were on top of the list, followed by Cost of transportation between Taiwan and Vietnam, Required language for study medium, Quality of students, Campus environment and Religious facilities. 3. Among the fourteen factors above, only three of them were assessed as strongly satisfactory by experienced students (students who have experienced Taiwan higher education). They were Quality of academic facilities, Quality of lecturers and Campus environment. Seven of them were rated between satisfactory and neutral: Required language for study medium, Quality of teaching methods, Availability of appropriate faculty, Curriculum, Cost of living, Financial aids and Tuition fee. The remaining four factors which were Recognition of the qualifications in Vietnam, Quality of students, Religious facilities and Cost of transportation between Taiwan and Vietnam, were evaluated to be between neutral and dissatisfactory. 4. Students who were using Chinese as language medium in Taiwan were found to be more satisfied than those using English as the medium.

This study examines the perceptions of low socioeconomonic status, high academic achievement Vietnamese middle grades students in the Vietnamese community with respect to the roles that their parents and communities play in supporting academic achievement. Previous research has established the positive relationships between parent involvement and student achievement, and between high SES and student achievement. However, this study explores the perceptions of high achieving middle grades students with low SES. Through focus group discussions and interviews, this study examines student achievement within the theoretical framework of social capital.

ASTRACT Viet nam labor market is facing with a huge need when the investment from outside and inside the country are rising dramatically. Oversea educated labor was such an important part of the need. However, Vietnamese oversea students will be influenced by a set of factors on their job choice as a long time career. Students in different education background or personality characters may have significant different expectation on job so they will have different attitude to every different job factors. This study researched Vietnamese students in Taiwan as a part of Vietnamese students oversea in term of their attitudes to job factors then explain how job factors influenced their career choice. The research issues were covered from individual factors to job related factors. That may make sense to organizations who want to attract those labor forces. That may be helpful to universities to adjust the education methods and that may help student to understand themselves better which may correct the direction of career orientation studying. The result of this research was satisfied the purpose of study when it found out many factors and conditions of working had influenced on career choice of Vietnamese students in Taiwan.

Today linguistic hybridity is often conceptualized as translanguaging. The present study of translanguaging was a linguistic ethnography, which meant investigating cultural issues as well as linguistic practices. The focus was on bilingual speakers of Vietnamese and English, two "named" languages that differ considerably in morphology, syntax, and orthography. This study, conducted over four and a half months, was situated in the Vietnamese Student Organization of a U.S. university, and it included 37 participants. The research was intended to answer two questions: what forms of translanguaging did these bilinguals use? and what reasons did they provide for instances of translanguaging? In capturing the language use of this community, my role was participant-observer, which entailed observing and audio-recording conversations in three kinds of settings: group meetings, social gatherings, and Facebook communications. Additional insights came from discourse-based interviews, focused on instances of translanguaging by 10 individuals. In the group meetings and Facebook conversations, it was conventional for the major language to be English, whereas in the social gatherings it was Vietnamese. My attention in analyzing these interactions was on patterns of translanguaging that occurred within sentences and those occurring outside sentence boundaries. Overall, most translanguaging occurred intra-sententially, as single words from one language were segmented within a sentence being spoken or written in the other. As to extra-sentential forms, this translanguaging in the group meetings mainly took the form of Vietnamese honorifics, and Facebook conversations included some extra-sentential double postings. Participants provided reasons for translanguaging that included community factors, discourse-related factors, and individual-related factors. This inquiry provides further insights into the multi-competences of bilingual individuals. The Vietnamese-English bilinguals drew flexibly from their linguistic repertoires, merging two languages that are quite different. Use of hybridized language was conventional for them and was central to their practices. This linguistic hybridity was a mutuality—one of the ways in which these students were, in fact, a community.

This study reports the food habits of Vietnamese college women in association with college life and their cultural background. Their food habits, food associated beliefs, and the influences on their food choices were examined. Interviews, using semi-structured questionnaire, were conducted with 25 Vietnamese college women at Oregon State University. The questionnaire included general and particular food consumption, cooking/eating out practices, and food associated beliefs. The busy schedules of the Vietnamese college students in college life greatly influenced their food choices. They preferred eating the same foods as before college, which were mainly Vietnamese foods. However, they also considered convenience for their food choices since they did not have enough time and/or skills to prepare and eat meals. Generally they kept eating Vietnamese foods, such as rice and Vietnamese flavored dishes; however, they increased eating easy to prepare food, such as pasta, sandwiches, and fast foods in college life, which were not often eaten with their families before college. All of them had rice cookers, chopsticks, and fish sauce, that are substantial for a Vietnamese diet. Their preference of eating Vietnamese foods led to their unique meal patterns. They tended to adjust mealtime in order to eat Vietnamese foods at home and avoided eating meals on campus. Instead, the high frequency of snack consumption was reported. They had strong beliefs that Vietnamese foods were healthy. The Vietnamese foods, which consisted of rice, a wide variety of vegetables, and small amount of meat, tend to be low in fat. It led to avoidance of commercialized low-fat and low-calorie foods. The Vietnamese diet was also believed to be a balanced diet. This was associated with the small credibility of a vegetarian diet in spite of the fact that they considered vegetables played an important role in their diets. Generally they were comfortable to keep eating Vietnamese foods because of their health concerns, as well as their taste preferences. In college life, they consumed some foods that were not Vietnamese and not often eaten with their families before. However, it could be temporary mainly because of their busy schedules. They preferred to eat the same foods as before, if their schedule allowed, and they considered that Vietnamese foods should be eaten as their real meals. / Graduation date: 1999

The process of second language vocabulary acquisition (L2VA) is investigated by looking at the learning, teaching, learner and environmental factors that affect the ways that adult Vietnamese learners of English acquire, store and use words. Data were collected by examination of informants' diaries, recorded classes, free conversations, interview-questionnaires and regular interviews during the English program. The data show that the process of building up the mental lexicon is slow, long and complicated. For adult learners coming from different English and job backgrounds, full time classroom learning is the biggest and most important source of L2 word input. It is also in this environment that the word storage and recall mechanisms are most facilitated. The L2VA process varies according to individual learners at different levels, with different learning goals, motivations, determination, areas of interest and word learning methods. It is hoped that the findings of the study help increase Vietnamese teachers' awareness of how to teach English vocabulary effectively and how to help learners work out individually suitable word learning methods.

La rédaction à l'université constitue une tâche complexe car les scripteur-étudiants ont à gérer, non seulement, leurs idées mais aussi les moyens linguistiques servant à les exprimer. Le travail devient plus difficile lorsqu'on rédige dans une langue étrangère. Une des difficultés majeures des étudiants vietnamiens francophones dans leur rédaction universitaire en français est d'enchaîner leurs idées pour produire des séquences cohérentes et abouties. La recherche menée dans le cadre de cette thèse aborde l'utilisation des connecteurs argumentatifs dans les écrits universitaires des étudiants vietnamiens en vue d'une perspective didactique. Les problèmes de cet emploi (fréquences, erreurs…) sont montrés à travers les analyses quantitatives et qualitatives des connecteurs argumentatifs mobilisés dans les écrits des étudiants de géographie. L'accent est particulièrement mis sur l'analyse des utilisations erronées réparties selon une classification des erreurs et anomalies de ces termes de liaison. Les propositions didactiques issues des résultats obtenus servent à améliorer l'enseignement de ces articulateurs et peuvent être élargies à tous les publics d'étudiants vietnamiens. Le développement d'un enseignement sur la diversité des connecteurs argumentatifs tant, au niveau de la forme, qu'au niveau du sens, des notions de cohésion textuelle et de cohérence argumentative (acte d'argumenter, opération discursive, séquence argumentative) est l'enjeu de cette étude sur le terrain. / Writing at university is a complex task because the writer-students have to manage not only their ideas but also the linguistic means that are used to express them. The work becomes more difficult when the writing is in a foreign language. A major difficulty of vietnamese students in their academic writing in French is to link their ideas to produce consistent and accomplished sequences. The research conducted in this thesis concerns the use of connectors in argumentative academic writing of Vietnamese students for a didactic perspective. The problems of this use (frequency, errors ...) are shown through quantitative and qualitative analysis of argumentative connectors which are utilized in writings of Geography students. The emphasis is on the analysis of erroneous uses distributed according to a classification of errors and anomalies of these linking terms. From the obtained results, we propose some didactic improvements that are used for teaching of these articulators and can be extended to any vietnamese students public. The development of a teaching, based on the diversity of argumentative connectors, both in the form and at the level of meaning, of notions of textual argumentative cohesion and coherence (act of arguing, operation discursive, argumentative sequence) is the issue of this research on the field.

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