TESOL Studies

This course is designed for HCMUTE English majored students at upper-intermediate level to achieve low-advanced level (equivalent to B2 –CEFR) in listening and speaking. It really reflects a thoroughly integrated academic listening and speaking spectrum. The purposeful integration of critical thinking and an enhanced focus on academic skills such as making inferences, analysing, synthesizing, problem-solving, note-taking and test-taking helps students develop strategies for success in the classroom and on standardized tests. Besides, the productive tasks in the course can galvanize content, language and critical thinking skills.

This course is designed to help English majors at HCMUTE progress their listening and speaking skill to the upper-intermediate level (equivalent to B1+ - CEFR). It provides students with opportunities to enhance their academic oral communication skills, such as listening and responding to the authentic broadcasts, short lectures, and long conversations, and taking good notes.  They then discuss or debate the issues mentioned in the listening tasks. Besides, an introduction to public speaking is included, with a focus on speaking to inform, which helps develop students’ confidence in delivering effective informative speech.

Translation 2 Module is designed for third-year students. This course enables students to analyze, choose relevant translation methods, practice translating long texts of different types, discover and find ways to solve the difficulties that arise in the translation process. In addition, learners are provided with methods to exploit open-source resources and self-study methods to do group exercises and to translate for personal interests.

The module draws students closer to the real-world work environment in the future because this module gives learners access to documents of various functions that often appear in everyday life and academic life which require translation: advertising, regulations, product manuals, and professional articles.

The course is designed for English-majored students to enable them to obtain listening and speaking skills at higher pre-intermediate level (A2+). The course provides students with communicative actitivities based on contemporary topics such as presentation, simulation, debate, case study and public annoucements. Besides, academic skills, i.e. inferencing, consolidation, note-taking and exam taking skills are also emphasized to help students succeed academically.