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The course is designed for English-majored students to obtain listening and speaking skills at intermediate level (B1+). To be more specific, students can achieve listening-speaking strategies (getting main ideas and details) and can comprehend common themes of work, school, entertainment, hobbies, experience description, dream, etc. and then discuss, give reasons as well as explain ideas about the given topics. Moreover, students can broaden their general knowledge and pool of vocabulary through units. Furthermore, academic skills, such as inferring, summarizing, giving presentation, group-work, test-taking are emphasized during in-class activities to develop learners’ critical thinking and study skills.

The course is designed for English major students in order to achieve reading ability at the elementary level (B1+). Specifically, the course helps students develop reading skills such as reading for main ideas, reading for detail information, distinguishing topic and key words, critical thinking skills, guessing meanings of words in context, and word analysis. In addition, the course offers students a chance to practise standardized PET exam  become familiar with the self-study and standardized PET exam format and provides important reading strategies and skills in preparation for FCE exam.

This course is to help English majors at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education achieve intermediate grammar (level B1+). Particularly, students not only comprehend the structures and meanings in various contexts of clauses as well as conjunctions but they also use these structures to improve the skills. Moreover, they can have an overview of difficulties in studying grammar in order to have solutions for their future work. Also, students are trained to study independently as well as work in groups effectively.

The course is designed for the first-year English majored students in the second semester in order to introduce a new language as the second language. This course aims at enhancing students’ ability to communicate in Japanese at elementary level. The course also provides the students with familiar topics related to self-introduction, greetings, family and so on.