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This course is intended for year-4 students of English major at UTE-HCMC. It is designed to assist students in developing public speaking skills.  Students are trained in selecting and organizing ideas; adapting a message to a particular audience; supporting ideas clearly, vividly, and logically; and delivering an effective message with self confidence and enthusiasm.

During the course, attention will be focused upon providing an atmosphere of positive reinforcement and constructive feedback. Students are encouraged to help each other with suggestions for improvement. The basic philosophy of this course is that public speaking involves skills which can be mastered by anyone with motivation and determination.

This course is designed to provide English majors with basic knowledge of semantics in terms of word meaning and sentence meaning, with which students can develop their capacity for deep understanding and skills in linguistic meaning analysis. Also, students are expected to be able to apply the acquired knowledge and skills in the process of language learning and research as well as in daily communication. Moreover, students are equipped with a system of English semantic concepts, terminology and study skills helping them enhance their foreign language capacity.

This module is to help second-year translation students understand the basics of translation types, translation techniques and mistakes to be avoided. By the end of the course, students will be able to apply translation theory into practical exercises at gradual levels of improvement: practice translating basic sentence patterns, translating clause types and translating short informative paragraphs such as newsletters, articles, etc. on many different topics including culture, entertainment, basic science, tourism, etc. In addition, students will be able to translate standard texts, improve their reading comprehension ability and develop grammar knowledge, vocabulary, and rhetorical measures.