Description

This seminar features two presentations.

The first presents research into the implementation of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in Vietnamese tertiary classrooms is rare. In this study, Hao Dao addresses this gap by seeking to understand the experience and cognition of the teachers at a Vietnamese university as they taught using the textbook New Cutting Edge Elementary which is explicitly framed as 'task-based'.

The second seminar talks about how enhancing learners’ intercultural competences (ICC) has been claimed, by privileged scholars and researchers, to be one of the ultimate objectives of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching worldwide. How far has this objective been reached? In this study, Minh Ta first attempted to investigate the current situation of culture teaching to and learning in a university in Vietnam via classroom observations and interviews with stakeholders. Second, Minh Ta examined the effect of a project-based language learning innovation on fostering students’ ICC.