Foreign language

English as a foreign language (EFL) learners face various speaking challenges. Prior research has demonstrated that inadequate instructional methods and students' lack of motivation are the primary factors contributing to their low speaking competency. The use of scaffolding has received acclaim for its capacity to effectively engage a wide range of learners.

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As our world continues to evolve and education reforms are in progress, teacher change has become a focal point of attention. Teachers need to adapt themselves to meet new demands. This study examines teachers' changes due to their engagement in professional development. The study involved thirty-two English as a foreign language teachers from two universities in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

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This study is an additional endeavor to re-emphasize the impact of the systemic functional linguistic genre-based approach (SFL GBA) on teaching English argumentative genres to the third-year English majors, batch 11, at Dong Nai University’s faculty of foreign languages, both in terms of their improved written performances and positive perceptions towards the teaching-learning cycle (TLC).

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This study examines the frequency and function of nominalisation in English scientific discourse (ESD) through an analysis of 33 texts in engineering, biology, medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, geography, history, physics, environmental science, business, and information technology.

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This quantitative research aims to examine 75 EFL students’ perspectives of teacher creativity in teaching English speaking skills at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education. Using Kharkhurin’s (2014) conceptual framework of creativity, the paper focuses on four dimensions of teachers’ novelty, utility, aesthetics and authentic attributes in teaching English speaking skills.

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This paper investigates the syntactic features and expression exclamations in English in the novel "If tomorrow comes" by the author Sidney Sheldon and its Vietnamese equivalent by translator Nguyen Ba Long. It is conducted with the hope of finding out the similarities and differences between how exclamations are formed in both languages and suggesting practical applications to the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language in Vietnam.

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This study employs both quantitative and qualitative methods. The instruments used are a questionnaire and an interview protocol. In this study, all participants responses were coded and analyzed descriptively.

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This study examines the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, exploring how various vocabulary learning strategies influence reading proficiency.

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This paper aims to find out what DI is and explore its benefits and challenges as a teaching approach for mix-level EFL classrooms, and thereby discussing its prospective application in the context of Vietnamese universities.

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This research delves into the realm of language learning strategies (LLSs) among 116 Vietnamese and Indonesian university students majoring in English and English Language Education. Utilizing Rebecca Oxford's Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) with a quantitative approach, the study aims to unravel the connections between culture and language learning strategies.

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This study aimed at investigating English-major students’ experiences with the use of digital resources for their informal language learning (ILL) at a university in Vietnam. The data collection instruments included questionnaires, which were delivered online to 91 participants, and semi-structured interviews carried out with 12 of these participants.

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This research aimed to investigate teachers’ perceptions and practices of projectbased learning (PBL) in teaching speaking skill at some high schools in a Central Vietnam province. The mixed methods research was adopted with the population of twenty-five teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL).

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The study aims to explore their attitudes towards RJW through the data collection tool of interviews conducted with the teachers before and after they spent eight weeks writing reflective journals on their English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching at primary schools.

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The study examines the efficacy of utilizing English pop songs to teach liaison (linking sounds) in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. The experiment, conducted over five weeks, involved two groups of adolescent learners enrolled in a general English course at a university's foreign language department in Ho Chi Minh City.

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Recently, whether to use translanguaging in teaching English has received great aenon from language researchers and language teachers all over the world. This critical review aims to systematically synthesize literature on the use of translanguaging in teaching English in higher education.

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The study aims at examining EFL teachers’ perceptions on their roles and how they occupy these roles in project-based learning at a Vietnamese state university. Narrative interviews were employed to collect qualitative data with the participation of five teachers at the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education.

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The study was conducted with the participation of 150 first-year and second-year English major students at the School of Foreign Languages, Thai Nguyen University. The results of the study indicate that all the vocabulary learning strategies listed in the questionnaire were used by the participants.

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The study highlights the importance of beliefs in EFL teaching and learning and provides meaningful contributions to undergraduate preservice teachers, teachers and teacher educators to enhance the quality of teaching EFL to young learners in Vietnam in particular, and in other EFL contexts in general.

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In this study, the efficacy of educational technology tools in enhancing speaking skills was explored through a quasi-experimental design involving 84 IT freshmen. Employing tools such as FORVO (FV), YouGlish (YG), and Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary (OALD) 8th edition, the research compared the speaking abilities of students using these technologies (experimental group) against those taught through traditional methods (control group).

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When mentioning teaching and learning English at all levels of education in countries where English is classified as English as a Foreign Language, four principal skills – listening, speaking, reading, and writing – have been widely researched. Listening has long been recognized as a challenging skill for teachers, students, and researchers in non-English native language contexts.

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