Anh Hoang Khau

• Master of Science
• Lecturer at Tra Vinh University

EFL teachers’ and 60 students’ perceptions of the knowledge needed to translate English proverbs into Vietnamese. The study used an online survey to collect the two groups’ responses. The survey used a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 for strongly disagree to 5 for strongly agree. The results showed that most teachers were aware of teaching t...

The study explores teacher job satisfaction among teachers working in primary schools in Vietnam. The data used in this study was taken from the TALIS 2018 survey conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data includes 3,991 primary school teachers. The investigation found that the teachers were content with their...

Usefulness of smaller groups when learning English

It has been led to believe that students can become more anxious while asked to speak than to write in foreign language classes. Therefore, many instructors may have a false conception of the issue. In order to test this belief, forty-one second-year English majors are asked to answer the questionnaires on speaking and writing anxiety. The Foreign...

This study investigated a group of medical students' perspectives on common difficulties in learning specialized vocabulary in English or English for Specific Purposes in their program. The study employed a quantitative method, which used a five-point Likert scale questionnaire to survey 214 medical students at Tra Vinh University. The study result...

This study attempts to investigate how four groups of participants at Tra Vinh University perceive oral fluency. This study is conducted in the hope to obtain more perceptions of oral fluency so future rubrics can be developed based on such perceptions. The study used a set of items stating what oral fluency should be like, which was developed base...

Self-assessment with corrective training has been long seen as crucial in helping learners improve their own work. This study investigates a group of 28 English�majored students’ self-assessment of their Speaking performance at the end of a Speaking course at a university. First, the study explores their knowledge of the speaking test and then i...

This study explores Vietnamese EFL teachers’ and Vietnamese EFL students’ opinions on cultural expectations of roles and styles related to teachers and students in the English classroom. The instrument of a five-point Likert scale questionnaire was deployed and delivered to both the teachers and students to collect the data. One set of the question...

Writing is one of the four important skills in learning a foreign language. However, most high school students find it uneasy to write due to many different both objective and subjective reasons. Finding effective solutions to this problem is always appreciated. This study, therefore, hopes to investigate whether peer feedback has any positive effe...

Due to demands of using English for work, study and entertainment, more Vietnamese people have tended to use Google Translate to help translate English into Vietnamese and vice versa. This tool has become popular in these situations. However, can this tool translate English modal verbs expressing social functions into Vietnamese? To obtain the d...

In teaching and learning a foreign language, especially English, motivation plays an extremely integral part in ensuring success. In this study, the researchers attempt to provide an overview of research on motivation and discover how motivation can assist second or foreign language learning in classrooms of English-majored students in the universi...

In teaching and learning a foreign language, especially English, motivation plays an extremely integral part in ensuring success. In this study, the researchers attempt to provide an overview of research on motivation and discover how motivation can assist second or foreign language learning in classrooms of English-majored students in the universi...

The current study attempted to investigate English collocations used in written translation among fourth-year English majors at a university. The participants included forty-one fourth-year English-majored students and three translation teachers who are teaching English-Vietnamese translation courses in the university. To gather data, the researche...

Critical thinking tasks can be useful in teaching and learning foreign or second languages, but they can be something innovative for some learning and teaching contexts. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore how EFL learners behave toward these tasks. 42 non-English majors were recruited for the study. They were divided into two groups: ex...

Đọc là một kĩ năng quan trọng mà người học cần phải đạt được. Vì nếu đọc giỏi, người học có thể lĩnh hội được nhiều tri thức về nhiều lĩnh vực khác nhau của các dân tộc và quốc gia trên thế giới. Lo lắng khi đọc là một trong những vấn đề thường gặp trong quá trình học tiếng Anh của nhiều học sinh ngôn ngữ, điều đó đã ngăn cản việc tiếp thu ngôn ngữ...