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.

This course is designed for English majored students to achieve intermediate level (equivalent to B1 – CEFR) in reading. The meaning of new English vocabulary provided before main readings is inferred from examples or paragraphs; the students, thus, can develop their guessing the meaning of new words through various contexts. Distinct tasks of the vocabulary skills also help them acquire much more vocabulary after the reading process. In addition, with a variety of reading tasks, the students are taught skills of reading for gist and details and the skill of speed reading by using the “keyword’’ technique. Moreover, they learn to use charts and graphs for reading texts faster and more efficiently. Last but not least, the students can enhance their critical thinking, creativity, and inferences.

This course provides senior students with the opportunity to practice English-Vietnamese, Vietnamese-English translation at companies in need, thereby having the opportunity to experience the real working environment and obtain job skills needed to expand career opportunities. During the process, students will observe working process, conduct translation, report work, then learn to manage time effectively to meet job demands.

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.

Due to the rapid development of smart devices, a number of applications have been exploding. The demand for popularizing these applications to users worldwide is increasing. However, with cultural differences, languages of those applications need to be customized to suit users of diverse markets. To meet this demand, the course of IT translation is designed to provide Translation and Interpretation students with background knowledge and terminology of information technology. Based on this platform, learners will be accommodated with translation techniques of documents, software applications, hardware and software manuals, etc.