New curriculum, existing problems: Teacher perception of the English language curriculum renewal in Vietnam

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.56040/mcla1827

T. Vu, Thi Hong Nhung Nguyen

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The emergence of English as a global lingua franca, coupled with the profound impact of globalisation and neoliberalism in language policy planning, has influenced the Vietnamese Government to embark on a national foreign language project, aiming to enhance the English capacity of school students. New English curricula and textbooks were developed, adhering to the principles of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). This study is an attempt to explore teacher attitude and understanding of the new curriculum and its pedagogic underpinning. Data obtained from a teacher survey (n=347) and interviews (n=16) reveal doubts and negative attitude among teachers about the feasibility of the curriculum goal. The findings also indicate that teachers had an incomplete understanding of CLT, along with a range of local challenges to the successful enactment of the new communicative curriculum. Implications are proposed in light of these findings, including the need to adapt rather adopt CLT and the prioritisation of teacher professional development, among other structural changes.

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新课程，存在的问题:越南教师对英语语言课程更新的认知

英语作为全球通用语的出现，再加上全球化和新自由主义对语言政策规划的深远影响，促使越南政府启动了一项旨在提高学生英语能力的国家外语项目。坚持交际教学法原则，开发了新的英语课程和教材。本研究旨在探讨教师对新课程的态度和理解，以及新课程的教学基础。从教师调查(n=347)和访谈(n=16)中获得的数据显示，教师对课程目标的可行性持怀疑态度和消极态度。研究结果还表明，教师对汉语交际教学的理解不完全，并且在新交际课程的成功实施方面存在一系列本地挑战。根据这些发现提出了一些启示，包括需要适应而不是采用CLT和教师专业发展的优先次序，以及其他结构性变化。

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Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： e-FLT is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Centre for Language Studies of the National University of Singapore. Its primary objective is to disseminate scholarly information on research and development in the field of Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Asia and beyond. It publishes articles and book reviews in English as well as in any of the following twelve languages taught at the Centre for Language Studies: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese. It will also welcome any information on upcoming academic conferences, seminars or symposiums as a service to its readers. It is unique in that it is multilingual and practises the policy of accepting and publishing articles in twelve different languages. There will be two issues of e-FLT a year, appearing in the months of June and December. e-FLT is published electronically in the Internet to allow it to reach a wider audience in Asia and the rest of the world, while keeping production costs to a minimum, making it possible to grant free access to the journal. e-FLT focuses primarily on – but is not restricted to – the following areas of inquiry and development in Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Teaching Methodologies Curriculum Development and Syllabus Design Materials Design Teacher Education and Professional Development Theories of Second Language Acquisition Theories of Second and Foreign Language Teaching Innovations/New Technologies in Language Teaching Linguistics Theories and Language Teaching.