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This course is designed to provide the students of Technical English Translation and Interpretation as well as of the Business English programs basic understandings of pragmatics in English communication, the meaning of sentences and utterances such as implicature

This ESP course is to enable students to widen their knowledge and improve their communication skills in the field of environmental technology. The course provides a variety of learning activities and facilitates different learning strategies to help students achieve the goals. Particularly, students are exposed to authentic texts and oral language in technical situations relevant to environmental science, atmosphere, ecosystem, water pollution, noise pollution, air pollution and solid waste. Specific reading skills to be nurtured include dealing with technical texts and reading diagrams. Lifelong learning skills are promoted throughout classroom activities. 

This course aims at equipping third-year students who major in Translation and Interpretation with background knowledge of American literature and culture. In terms of cultural aspects, the students will look at the overview of factors such as geography, history and politics that have had impacts the foundation of American culture. The analysis of these factors will help the students understand more deeply and be able to explain cultural phenomena in the countries which have been significantly influenced by American culture. Regarding American literature, the students will be provided with the introduction to acclaimed literary works and authors within the context of the work. Based on their knowledge of culture and literature, the students will practice translating extracts from the literary works in order to have a better understanding of literary language and be able to translate literary works.

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.