English

This course provides students with grammatical structures and terminology used in international business contracts and related rules and laws. During the course, students’ listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation skills will be developed and reinforced in order to enable them to apply previously learned knowledge in business environments. After the course, students can be able to draft some kinds of English business contracts in compliance with the laws.

The course is designed to highlight the learning objectives, requirements and professional orientation in English Applied Linguistics program at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education . In this course, students are provided with fundamental knowledge of Translation and Interpretation as well as Business fields in a systematic, scientific, complete and detailed way with practical situations. The course also aims to introduce the students to the methods and learning skills in general and the method of learning English in particular at the university level to help students achieve the desired results in order to gain general knowledge, necessary professional skills, as well as future career attitudes.

This course provides second-year students majoring in EFL education with fundamental knowledge of popular methods to teach the English language. Characteristics of different groups of learners, effective teaching activities and teachers’ roles in each session or in the whole course are examined to propose teaching practices that best facilitate students’ learning. Topics such as class size or the diversity of learners’ levels are also discussed. Moreover, popular teaching methods used to teach the English language throughout history are also introduced for students to analyze the characteristics of each method and its appropriateness level in particular scenarios. Students are exposed to a set of topics related to classroom management such as grouping, mistake correction and feedback that significantly contribute to the success of a lesson.