Phuong Cao

Victoria University of Wellington · School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been increasingly adopted and has emerged as a central concept from curriculum guidelines and syllabi (Nunan, 2003) in the Vietnamese context. Although TBLT has been vigorously and explicitly promoted by recent language education policies in Vietnam (Nguyen, 2011), a variety of affordances and challenges have...

In response to the calls to incorporate the changing sociolinguistic reality of English in classroom practices, textbooks can serve as a powerful tool for equipping learners with knowledge of world Englishes and intercultural communication skills. This article explores the extent to which a set of locally produced English textbooks in Vietnam have...

One way that teachers can develop professionally is through doing research. Research may begin simply with teachers’ reflecting critically on their classroom practices, the textbooks, or the curriculum. But teachers lead busy lives and so research is often a low priority. In this interview, Jonathan Newton, Associate Professor in Applied Linguistic...

This chapter presents a reflective account of two practitioners, doctoral students from Vietnam learning to teach, teaching and assessing students in teritary EFL context for interculturality. Informed by King and Kasun's social justice framework, the researchers employed a duo-ethnographic approach to exploring their transnational process of co-co...

Book Review

The present paper analyses conversational strategies employed by the interviewer on a New Zealand radio programme from conversation analysis (CA) perspective. This study employs a documentary method of interpretation in order to seek answer(s) to the research question. Specifically, Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson’s (1974) model of conversation anal...

In response to the calls to incorporate the changing sociolinguistic reality of English in classroom practices, textbooks can serve as a powerful tool for equipping learners with knowledge of world Englishes and intercultural communication skills. This article explores the extent to which a set of locally produced English textbooks in Vietnam have...

This present report examines and evaluates the current language policy adopted at the Vietnamese primary education level and its implementation in classroom practice. This study employed a qualitative approach to investigate how well the language policy is enacted in state schools in Vietnam. The findings reveal that the policy has brought consider...

Teaching and learning vocabulary is one the most significant components in textbooks. It is helpful for textbook users if textbooks can be investigated to evaluate how lexical components are represented, and how they comply with the conditions necessary for vocabulary uptake.

This current paper presents the findings of move analysis of conference abstracts from the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL). Reviewing different core perspectives of move analysis such as Biber et al. (2007); Swales (1981, 1990); Santos (1996), the paper employed suitable approaches namely Biber et al. (2007) for move identificati...

Research has shown that learners' task performance can be enhanced when they have a chance to repeat the tasks (Nation, 1986; Boers, 2014; Thai & Boers, 2016). This current study examines the effects of an immediate repetition of monologue under 4-3-2 activity on learners' linguistic improvements in fluency, accuracy, and complexity. Through an exp...

In-depth research on Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has shed light on different factors affecting learners' process of learning an additional language (AL). The well-researched factors may include age, inter-linguistic influences, language aptitude, cognition, motivation, and so forth. This case study report compares two adult learners' language...

English language teaching (ELT) policies usually serve as a key element in regulating the English language teaching and learning activities of a country. For the past twenty years, the Vietnamese Government has issued a significant number of policies in ELT, and spent a larger proportion of its budget on promoting ELT and learning than ever before....

The ultimate goal of language teaching is to nurture independent learners equipped with learning autonomy. One of the most efficient methods adopted to foster learner autonomy is through cooperative learning or project work [20]. The current study, which was carried out at a Vietnamese university, investigates the extent to which learner autonomy i...