This course aims to help first year English majors reach the upper-intermediate level of their reading ability (B2). Through exposure to reading texts of different academic topics and text types and engagement in a variety of reading tasks, students are given chance to practice not only basic reading skills but also advanced ones such as making inferences, identifying tone and mood, recognizing the writer’s attitude and bias, identifying source of information, recognizing cause and effect, and reading statistical data. In addition, this course aims to enrich students’ vocabulary resource and develop their critical thinking. Last but not least, through the engagement in classroom activities and homework assignments, students are able to build up their skills of communication, presentation, individual work and teamwork.

This course is designed for the first and second-year university students in order to equip them with basic understandings about the history, development process and characteristics of the Vietnamese language; to help them consolidate and strengthen Vietnamese language skills in five primary aspects, which are spelling, lexicon, grammar, styles and texts. From that, students can actively use the mother tongue in an appropriate manner for the purposes of learning and researching, as well as contribute to maintaining the purity and richness of the Vietnamese language.  

In addition, this course also focuses on helping students shape and consolidate several active learning skills such as researching, public speaking and teamwork.

This course is designed to provide second-year English-majored students with basic and systematic knowledge of the history of major ancient and medieval civilizations such as Egypt, India, Chinese