In recent years, international integration boost has been one of the focuses of Khanh Hoa Education and Training sector. It is also considered as 1 of 9 key task groups of the sector...
In recent years, international integration boost has been one of the focuses of Khanh Hoa Education and Training sector. It is also considered as 1 of 9 key task groups of the sector.
Communicative skills focused
Foreign languages in general and English in particular are taught at primary to high schools. Communicative skills have been focused based on international standards, the Common European Framework with 6 levels for Vietnamese learners. Some schools have invested in equipment for teaching English. Therefore, the English teaching and learning have gradually improved. The national foreign language project 2018 – 2020 has been developed for gifted classes, grade 6 and 10, at public high schools, bi-lingual teaching for junior high school students and 10th–graders at iSchool Nha Trang School; together with a pilot bi-lingual teaching program for math classes at Le Quy Don Gifted School. Khanh Hoa Department of Education & Training has also built a pilot project to invite English native speakers to teach English at school to improve learners' English communicative proficiency.
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Several schools have organized extracurricular activities such as public speaking contests, English story-telling contests, etc to help learners to practice speaking and listening skills. Through the activities, the schools have promoted the destination of Vietnam in general and Khanh Hoa Province in particular as well as propagandized the policy on international integration in education and training.
Khanh Hoa Department of Education and Training has also cooperated with the U.S Embassy in Ho Chi Minh City to provide professional development training, using information technology and classroom language for educational staff.
International cooperation boost
Hoang Thi Ly, Vice-Director of Khanh Hoa Department of Education & Training says since 1994, Khanh Hoa Department of Education & Training has developed Vietnamese-French bi-lingual language curricula at 5 schools. Annually, the ABCDE (Association à But Culturel et de Development Educatif) of French students and the French Institute in Vietnam come to Nha Trang City to help students to improve their French language, develop communicative skills, enhance the understanding about the French culture, provide support for teaching and professional development training for teachers of French at schools.
Khanh Hoa Department of Education & Training has also organized many cooperation activities with the International Organization of the Francophonie, the University Agency of the Francophonie, French Embassy and Consulate General of France, etc. Nguyen Van Troi High School has regularly organized exchange programs and twinning activities with Charles Janssens School, Kerraoul School, France; and a 10th grade student exchange program with Benjamin Franklin School, Morbihan Province, France. Khanh Hoa – JeJu Primary has also sent pupils to its twinning school JeJu in South Korea on an exchange program.
Phuoc Tien Primary School, Nha Trang City and Footscray – Victoria Primary School, Melbourne, Australia have also kept contact and exchanged information with each other. Besides, under the guidance of Khanh Hoa Provincial People’s Committee, Khanh Hoa Department of Education & Training has presided over and cooperated with relevant departments and agencies to have suggestions on cooperation relationship between Khanh Hoa and Saint Petersburg City, Russia in some sectors, including education and training.
In the time to come, the department plans to direct educational institutions to actively expand international cooperation and exchange programs with foreign universities; attract and effectively use international cooperation resources for the training and professional development training for educational staff, scientific research, technological transfer and infrastructures; coordinate with departments and agencies to propose mechanisms and policies to support educational managers, teachers and students to study abroad; appeal students to return home after graduating abroad, according to Hoang Thi Ly.
H. Ngan
Translated by N.T
