Hanoi (VNA) - A workshop to share experience in teaching foreign languages inVietnam took place in Hanoi from June 18-19.
Jointly organised by the Management Board of National Foreign Language Project andthe centre “SEAMEO QITEP in Language” ofIndonesia, this is the sixth of this kind in the “SEAQIL Goes to Schools” (SGTS)project which began since 2014 in Asian nations such as Laos, Indonesia,Cambodia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore.
Participants were managers, lecturers and teachers from universities and highschools in Hanoi, and international language experts.
The event focused on language teaching policies in Vietnam, latest languageteaching trends, and sharing experience and skill for teaching foreign languages.
Throughthe workshop, SEAMEO has collected and assessed teaching methods andskills of lecturers, thus building a document of foreign language teachingtechniques.
The centre hopes the publication of the document will be areference and instruction materials to improve skills and effectiveness oflanguage teachers in the region.
Vice head of themanagement board of national foreign language project Tran Trong Hung said afterthe compilation is published, it will be shared to foreign language lecturersand teachers in Vietnam.
SEAQIL Goes to Schools(STGS) is a project consisting of a series of workshops conducted since 2014 togather language teachers in Southeast Asia to share their good practices andeffective techniques applied in their classes. The workshops, then, result incompilations of fun and interesting language teaching methods, strategies aswell as techniques. The compilations are to be disseminated to languageteachers in the region.-VNA
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