With the increasing contact between Vietnam
and English speaking countries and the growing demand
for foreign language professionals in the last decades,
the teaching of foreign languages, especially English,
has gained considerable prominence in Vietnamese
education. However, English has been taught in Vietnam
for a relatively short time, there are significant
deficiencies in this area. If these deficiencies are
to be addressed then methodology is a crucial variable
worthy of examination.
Many of the EFL teaching (Teaching English
as a Foreign Language) methods developed in the last
twenty years are unfamiliar to a great number of the
Vietnamese teachers, although they may be introduced
to Vietnam in the near future. In this study a historical
overview of language teaching development is provided.
Since language teaching methods are products of
Western experience, a scrutiny of their relevance
to the Vietnamese teaching situation is necessary. In
particular it is important to focus on the psychological
and cultural appropriateness of different methods to
the Vietnamese settings. A number of most crucial
psychological issues such as the learner's motivation,
aptitude, personality and learning style are discussed
together with some social and cultural influences
which may affect the learner's psychological attributes,
The study also provides a specific investigation of
the psychological attributes of Vietnamese students
and a number of cultural problems faced by this type
of learners in their English learning process. Finally
some practical, though tentative, suggestions are made
in the hops that more and more Vietnamese teachers of
English will respond to the problem of teaching
methodology and search for ways to bring about
effective learning.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219021 |
| Date | January 1985 |
| Creators | Pham, Khai Hoan, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Information Sciences |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Khai Hoan Pham |
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