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This course presents an overview of countries in the Southeast Asia region in general and the ASEAN network in particular on their formation and development. In particular, this course focuses on providing students with a thorough review on the economic-historical-cultural-political aspects of these countries.

This intensive course is designed to provide TESOL students with a deeper insight into characteristics of young learners and adolescents regarding learning styles, attitude, and needs. This knowledge enables them to choose suitable teaching approaches, methods, strategies and technique for different groups of learners. Students have a opportunity to design lesson plans and sharpen their teaching skills during the micro-teaching session. The course also fosters students’ competence in communication, collaboration, critical thinking and reflection through a wide range of teaching and learning activities.

This course provides third-year students majoring in TESOL Studies with a systematic overview of key concepts, methods, instructional strategies and classroom management techniques relevant to English language teaching. Students are required to work in groups, to practice designing lesson plans and conducting micro-teaching sessions of language components (Grammar, Vocabulary, Pronunciation) and the four macro skills (Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking). They also observe classmates’ performance and give comments in relation to teaching principles. Feedback from peers and lecturers supports students’ learning to better their teaching practices. 

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.