Book contents
- English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East Asia
- English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East Asia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Glocalization and Grobalization: Critical Issues in English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East Asia
- 2 Concepts of Globalization and English Language Teacher Education in Singapore
- 3 Learning to Teach English in Hong Kong: Transformation and Tensions Over Two Decades of English Language Teacher Education Policy
- 4 Meeting National Needs in English Language Teacher Education: Global Perspectives in Malaysian Initiatives
- 5 English Teacher Education in Postcolonial Philippines
- 6 China Going Global: Challenges and Responses in English As a Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Education
- 7 English Education Reform, Teacher Education, and the Tokyo Olympics: Perfect Timing?
- 8 English Language Teacher Education in South Korea: Changes and Challenges
- 9 Preparing English Teachers in the Twenty-First Century: The Case of Taiwan
- 10 English Language Teacher Education in Thailand: A Mix of Global and Local
- 11 Interrogating Troubling Issues in Vietnam’s English Language Teacher Education
- Index
- References
11 - Interrogating Troubling Issues in Vietnam’s English Language Teacher Education
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Book contents
- English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East Asia
- English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East Asia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Glocalization and Grobalization: Critical Issues in English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East Asia
- 2 Concepts of Globalization and English Language Teacher Education in Singapore
- 3 Learning to Teach English in Hong Kong: Transformation and Tensions Over Two Decades of English Language Teacher Education Policy
- 4 Meeting National Needs in English Language Teacher Education: Global Perspectives in Malaysian Initiatives
- 5 English Teacher Education in Postcolonial Philippines
- 6 China Going Global: Challenges and Responses in English As a Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Education
- 7 English Education Reform, Teacher Education, and the Tokyo Olympics: Perfect Timing?
- 8 English Language Teacher Education in South Korea: Changes and Challenges
- 9 Preparing English Teachers in the Twenty-First Century: The Case of Taiwan
- 10 English Language Teacher Education in Thailand: A Mix of Global and Local
- 11 Interrogating Troubling Issues in Vietnam’s English Language Teacher Education
- Index
- References
Summary
Over the past few decades, various external and internal challenges have increasingly required Vietnam to build up its capacity in the era of globalization by improving the English language competences of both learners and language teachers. Vietnam has responded to these challenges through a number of reforms, most recently the ambitious National Foreign Language Project (NFLP-2020). Overall, the project aims to replace the traditional approach to English language learning and teaching with a more communicative approach and to introduce international standards in English language teacher education (ELTE). Much as these attempts are necessary and effective in certain ways, this chapter argues that they might be too ambitious and counterproductive as they fail to take into account the sociocultural, economic and political contexts of Vietnam. The chapter therefore calls for a critical perspective on these current reforms of ELTE in Vietnam.
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- English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East AsiaGlobal Challenges and Local Responses, pp. 217 - 234Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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