VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) proposal on foreign language requirements has been criticised as “utopian” and impractical.
Under the program, by 2020, the majority of Vietnamese who finish intermediate school (2-year training), junior college (3-year training) and university (4-5 year training) must have foreign language skills good enough to communicate, study and work in a multi-lingual integrated environment. The foreign language proficiency will be an advantage of Vietnamese worker.
However, educators and analysts all have doubts that the VND10 trillion program will succeed.
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How to “upgrade” English teachers?
The answer is that teachers need retraining to improve their qualification. However, it is not easy to implement the job.
Instead of focusing on retraining teachers to improve teachers’ qualifications, provincial authorities and schools have rushed to buy equipment to serve the English teaching.
Many schools bought Robot Teacher after MOET introduced it as a smart device which allows to mark students’ school works properly. However, as many teachers do not know how to use it, the device does not have much significance to English teaching.
The Nghe An provincial authorities spent several billions of dong to build eight foreign language labs equipped with modern facilities.
However, as the local teachers have not been trained how to deal with the equipment, the labs have been left idle.
Tin Tuc
Đăng ký: VietNam News
