(HBO) – Improving the quality of foreign language teaching and learning is of utmost importance for the education and training sector, especially when the country is in the process of wider and deeper integration into the global economy, and moving along the trend of the fourth industrial revolution.

 


Photo: Hoang Van Thu high school for gifted students equips four rooms with internet-connected computers for the online teaching and learning of English using the English Discoveries programme.

As a leading high school in Hoa Binh, Hoang Van Thu is the first and only school in the province to engage in international cooperation and teaching English using the English Discoveries programme. Attractive lessons and abundant materials help local students improve their four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

From the success of Hoang Van Thu High School, the provincial Department of Education and Training directed all schools to diversify curricula and teaching methods to meet education targets and demand for foreign language learning of local students. 

The department has put in place training course on English teaching methods for primary teachers. Meanwhile, those who achieved B2 level are arranged to give four lectures per week.

With the emphasis on improving local students’ listening and speaking ability, the department has invited native English-speaking teachers and volunteers to teach at schools and organising English speaking contests and talent competitions for English teachers and students.

 The local education sector aims to have some 15 percent of kindergartens in the province promote IT application and access English teaching by 2020, and at least 30 percent of kindergartens access English teaching by 2025. In the system of general schools, the sector is striving to have some 73 percent of primary schools, 50 percent of junior high schools, and 61 percent of senior high schools engage in the 10-year English education programme by 2020; and 100 percent of students grading 3-6 join in the 10-year English education programme by 2025./.

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