KỶ YẾU HỘI THẢO KHOA HỌC CẤP KHOA 2022

 

 UNDERSTANDING WORD FORMATION IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE

Nguyen Luong Hoang Thanh, M.A.

RATIONALE

According to Tanaka (2006), among 3000 languages supposed to exist on the Earth, English is the only language labeled “an international language”. Therefore, the position of English in the map of world languages remains unique. However, learning English is definitely not an easy task to fulfill as there are so many things to learn. Besides the skills such as speaking, listening, writing, and reading; vocabulary also plays an important role. The more vocabulary we have, the clearer and more accurate ideas we can express and the shorter the process of learning English becomes. However, people often describe learning new words as a never-ending process. What we can do is to make this seemingly difficult and boring process easier and more interesting to complete. As a consequence, a mini research is conducted to provide insight into the word formation in English and Vietnamese. Full text

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A CRITICAL REVIEW: Curriculum Approaches in Language Teaching: Forward, Central, and Backward Design (Jack C. Richards)

Nguyen Thi Bich Duyen, M.A.

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the article “Curriculum Approaches in Language Teaching: Forward, Central, and Backward Design” by Jack C. Richards. A brief summary of three kinds of curriculum design will be followed by a discussion for strengths and limitations of the article in general, and of each design in particular. A personal reflection including responses, relevance and implication of these curriculum approaches is also covered in accordance with Vietnam teaching and learning context. Full text

 

Raising awareness of the importance of pragmatics in EFL classes: Professional development for Vietnamese high school teachers

Ton Nu Tuy Anh, PhD in Linguistics

Introduction

My recent investigation into the pragmatic input in a national EFL textbook series for Vietnamese high school students reveals a paucity of explicit information on pragmatics, together with inadequate presentations of different pragmatic aspects (see Ton Nu, 2018; Ton Nu & Murray, 2020 for more information). These shortcomings of the textbooks regarding pragmatic content require teachers to play a more active role in integrating pragmatics into their lessons to facilitate the development of students’ communicative abilities in English. This has motivated me to organize a one-day training workshop for high school Vietnamese EFL teachers in order to raise their awareness of pragmatics and its teaching for their potential incorporation of pragmatics into their English lesson to help improving students’ communicative competence in the target language in the EFL contexts. Full text

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PHÂN BIỆT HÌNH THÁI DĨ THÀNH HIỆN TẠI (PRESENT PERFECT) VÀ HÌNH THÁI QUÁ KHỨ ĐƠN (SIMPLE PAST)

ThS. Trương Thị Anh Đào

Trong quá trình học tiếng Anh, người Việt thường mắc những lỗi ngữ pháp có quan hệ với loại hình, đặc biệt là lỗi về cách dùng thì. Chẳng hạn khi phải chuyển dịch một câu tiếng Việt trong đó có đã hay rồi sang tiếng Anh thì người học thường hay chuyển dịch sang bằng hình thái quá khứ của vị từ. Điều này sẽ đúng nếu sự tình trong câu được định vị trong một khung thời gian xác định ở quá khứ. Tuy nhiên, nếu không có khung thời gian, những chỉ tố này có thể biểu đạt nhiều ý nghĩa khác nhau tùy theo cấu trúc ngữ nghĩa và ngữ dụng của câu. Để giúp cho người học có thể sử dụng dễ dàng hai hình thái vị từ này, sau đây chúng ta sẽ so sánh cách dùng của chúng. Full text

 

Pre-Conference: Electronic porfolios as an alternative assessment during the pandemic

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In the series of the pre-conference workshops to welcome to the International Conference  on Applied Linguistics and Language Education 2022: Reconnecting and thriving in the new normal, the workshop ” Electronic Portfolios as an alternative assessment during the pandemic” is hosted by the National University ( Phillipines) on September 21, 2022. This event will be a chance for lecturers, teachers, social scientist and people who are working in the educational field to reveal more information about a new assessment as a pedagogical tool – Electronic portfolios.

About the Speaker:

Ricky Lam is Associate Professor and Associate Department Head in the Department of Education Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China. He is the Past President of Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics (HAAL), 2018-2020. Ricky is currently Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology and has served in several international editorial boards, such as Assessing Writing, RELC Journal, Journal of Asia TEFL, etc. He has been mentoring eight doctoral students. His research interests include L2 writing assessment, digital portfolios, and language assessment literacy. His publications have appeared in Assessing Writing, System, Language Testing, TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal, ELT Journal, and other SSCI- and SCOPUS-indexed journals. Ricky is also the author of Portfolio Assessment for the Teaching and Learning of Writing (Springer, 2018), Using Portfolios in Language Teaching (New Portfolio Series 4, SEAMEO Regional Language Centre, 2019), and Using Digital Portfolios to Develop Students’ Writing: A Practical Guide for Language Teachers (with Benjamin Luke Moorhouse, Routledge, 2023).

Abstract: 

Electronic portfolios, aka e-Portfolios have been adopted in first and second language classrooms for nearly two decades. In the first decade (2000-2010), e-Portfolios were mainly used as a pedagogical tool. In the second decade (2011-present), they have been proven to be effective in improving motivation, autonomy, self-regulated learning, and internal/external assessment scores as a digital learning platform (cf. Barrot, 2016, 2021; Beckers et al., 2016; Zheng & Barrot, 2022). Despite this positive evidence, scholars remain unclear about whether e-Portfolios could be used as a valid cum reliable assessment tool, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. This pre-conference workshop intends to fill this much-needed gap by addressing the following aspects of e-Portfolio assessment.

To begin with, the workshop describes the attributes and processes of e-Portfolios to keep participants in the picture. Then, it unpacks the conceptual rationale for e-Portfolios, namely socio-constructivist (online collaborative learning), assessment for learning (interactive pedagogies), and metacognition (digital reflective practices). Next, the workshop discusses the major differences between e-Portfolio pedagogy and e-Portfolio assessment when e-Portfolios are used as alternative assessment in second language classrooms. Afterward, it shares some actionable strategies with participants on how to use e-Portfolios to fulfill formative and summative purposes separately and concurrently. At last, the workshop provides several research-informed principles in case teacher participants plan to try out e-Portfolios in their work contexts.

Link for registration:

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Seminar: “Reflection on Writing And Getting Published in Academia”

On the morning of July 13, 2022, at UEH, a Seminar session with the theme: “Reflection on Writing And Getting Published in Academia” took place in a hybrid form (both online and face to face in Room B1.205, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City). The seminar plays an important role in the series of “Applied Seminars in Language Teaching” – International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Education (ICALLE 2022), co-organized by the School of Foreign Languages ​​and International Languages And Country Studies Institute, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City.

The seminar speaker is a famous education expert from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Newton. He has been working for more than thirty years in the field of language teaching and language teacher education in New Zealand and China. He is currently the Programme Director of the MA Programme in TESOL of Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). The seminar attracts many domestic and international authors, lecturers, teachers, and researchers in language practice to attend to find the right strategies, skills, and approaches to get their articles published in academic journals.

During only two- hour session, a lot of techniques, tips, personal experience and list of trusted articles are shared honestly by Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Newton. The Q&A session become hot than ever when a long list of waiting questions are sent via online chanel as well as the questions from the offline attendants are still raised continuosly.

Q&A session

The seminar is a vital step in preparing for the International Conference on Applied Linguistics and Language Education (ICALLE), which will take place on October 21-22 to support academic activities and find advanced methods as well as programs for teaching foreign languages ​​to the community. Furthermore, many international speakers from many universities around the world will attend the conference held in a hybrid format at Campus B, Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics, and online to adapt to the context of the new

If you missed the seminar, please feel free to access the links below for the recording and ppt slides:

Click here for the recording

PPT Slides

Please find out more information of the upcoming international conference 2022: Reconnecting and thriving in the new normal via our official website: https://sflic.ueh.edu.vn/new/

Hybrid Seminar: Reflections on writing and getting published in academia

We would cordially invite you to register for the pre-conference seminar hosted by the School of Foreign Languages at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh city (UEH University). Detailed information about the seminar is below:

Topic: REFLECTIONS ON WRITING AND GETTING PUBLISHED IN ACADEMIA

Mode: Hybrid Seminar

Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jonathan Newton (Victoria University of Wellington)

Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Time: 9.30- 11.30 AM (Vietnam)

Registration: Link to register

This Seminar is one of the activities under the frame of the International Conference on Applied Language and Language Education 2022 (ICALLE 2022). For further information, please view the enclosed Call for Proposals or contact the ICALLE 2022 Fanpage or Website.

By the way, the abstract submission deadline has been extended to July 30, 2022. Please submit your abstract to us via the email address sfl@ueh.edu.vn.