Journal Articles - Educational and Pedagogy - 2021
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PublicationA Real Game-Changer in ESL Classroom? Boosting Vietnamese Learner Engagement with Gamification( 2020)Lê Thùy LinhThe significance of gamification has been robust in educational contexts as gamification provides a greater engagement and empowerment among ESL language learners. This research aims to reconsider the role of gamification beyond its conventional use as gamified classroom activities, incorporating it into the whole journey of an ESL blended learning course. The study was conducted in a Vietnamese private university with a total of 50 learners for 12 weeks. E-journal and interviews were employed to explore learners’ deep thoughts of gamification. Each week, five learners voluntarily submitted their journals through a link by Google Form. Additionally, interviews were also conducted in the middle of the course, week 7, and at the end of the course, week 12. Data was analyzed into 3 main themes: behavioral engagement, emotional engagement, and cognitive engagement. The result indicated that ESL learners achieved a deeper engagement in a gamified blended classroom, behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively. To be more specific, learners attained a higher level of participation, effort-making, and contribution to learning. Moreover, participants showed their interest and confirmed the decrease of language anxiety. Finally, students developed a sense of social connection and investment in their learning, which was regarded as the expressions of cognitive engagement.
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PublicationThe Application of Metacognitive Strategies in Computer-Assisted Listening Comprehension Class( 2021)Dinh Bao LUComputer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in listening comprehension courses has long been proved effective in enhancing EFL learner's listening proficiency as it creates enough space for students to individualize their learning process. However, it is a need to provide students appropriate strategies to help them overcome various difficulties in their listening practice. This quasi-experimental research aims at investigating the influence of metacognitive strategies on EFL learner's listening comprehension performance in CALL listening class. Forty-nine Vietnamese English major freshmen from two intact classes at Van Lang University, participated in the study. During the 10-week listening comprehension course, learners in the experimental group were instructed to use metacognitive strategies, while those in the control group received no strategy instruction. The collected data from the pre-test and post-test were analyzed by t-test using SPSS software. Students were also required to complete the Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire (MALQ), adopted from Vandergrift (2004). The findings suggested that metacognitive strategy instruction positively affects students' listening comprehension competence.
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PublicationAn Investigation into Learners’ Perception Towards Peer Assessment in Tertiary EFL Writing Class( 2021)Nguyen Ngoc HuyThe current paper attempts to investigate learners’ perspectives towards the strengths and weaknesses of peer assessment in academic writing in the context of tertiary education at a private university. The study was conducted on 55 third-year university students who had finished the academic writing module that applied peer assessment in writing. The research adopted the mixed method of qualitative and quantitative approaches via the questionnaire with both close and open-ended questions. The results of the study reveal that the use of peer assessment was feasible for large-size classes at university to provide learners with the opportunities to reflect and enhance their language scope and social knowledge to improve their writing performance. However, certain limitations were acknowledged, such as the lack of assessment competence among learners and the time constraint in the classroom, especially the hesitation to violate the positive face of their peers.
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PublicationA Scientometric Analysis of COVID 19 Research in the Context of Vietnam( 2021)Tôn Nguyễn Trọng Hiền"Thế giới liên tục ghi nhận kỷ lục số ca nhiễm COVID-19, và số người chết tiếp tục tăng với con số đáng lo ngại. Tính cấp bách của đại dịch toàn cầu đã thúc đẩy các nhà khoa học khắp nơi trong đa lĩnh vực nỗ lực nghiên cứu giải pháp nhằm hạn chế tác động tiêu cực và đẩy lùi đại dịch; Việt Nam không ngoại lệ. Trong một khoảng thời gian ngắn, các tài liệu nghiên cứu về COVID-19 liên quan bối cảnh Việt Nam ngày càng được xuất bản nhanh và nhiều. Về vấn đề trên, cần thiết phải đánh giá nguồn tài nguyên hiện hữu nhằm có định hướng phát triển trong nghiên cứu, và nhằm gợi ý cho quyết định về chính sách. Trong nghiên cứu này chúng tôi áp dụng phương pháp phân tích trắc lượng khoa học các nghiên cứu COVID-19 liên quan bối cảnh Việt Nam. Để có được thông tin về các nghiên cứu COVID-19, cơ sở dữ liệu Scopus đã được sử dụng. Sử dụng công cụ phân tích tích hợp sẵn có của Scopus để thống kê mô tả kết hợp sử dụng công cụ ScienceScape và VOSviewer phân tích 144 tài liệu nghiên cứu, chính yếu kết quả cho thấy đã có sự hợp tác quốc tế, có sự đa dạng hóa các hướng nghiên cứu từ nghiên cứu y học, cho đến kinh tế xã hội, công nghệ v.v. tuy nhiên, nghiên cứu y học chiếm đa số xuất bản có liên quan. Ở thời điểm hiện tại, nghiên cứu về Dịch tễ học-kiểm soát dịch COVID-19 bối cảnh Việt Nam là sự quan tâm nhiều nhất từ các nhà nghiên cứu."
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PublicationValidating a Scale for Measuring Students' Perspectives toward Global Citizenship: A Case at a Private University in Vietnam( 2021)Minh Thanh NguyenGlobalization is one of the most significant phenomena of the 21st century, affecting many aspects of human society. In the wave of this influence, higher education institutions in many countries have adjusted themselves in order to prepare their students to be global citizens. However, research shows a need to evaluate whether the integration of global citizenship education is effective among different institutions and contexts. Many scholars are in favor of measuring students' perspectives as a solution. Additionally, although many organizations, such as UNESCO, and other researchers have investigated this issue, the measurement model is mainly designed for large-scale research. Therefore, this study aimed to validate a scale for measuring student perspectives toward global citizenship in a particular context of a university. Notably, the adopted scale measures global citizenship perspectives via three components: social responsibility, global competence, and global civic activism. In the study, each component was measured separately via three smaller measurement models. All the models were validated by using the PLS-SEM approach. The data for validating were collected from 171 students at a private university in Vietnam through an online survey. The result of data analysis suggested that the original scale (which was designed for the context of developed countries) could be employed in the context of developing countries. Nevertheless, some adjustments should be made in term of social responsibility and global competence.
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PublicationRelationships of Marketing, Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty – A Case Of Vietnamese Dairy Retail Stores in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam( 2021)
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PublicationExperiences of the e-learning environment of students at the University of Danang - University of Foreign Language Studies( 2021)Tran Thi Thuy Oanh TranE-learning is being widely deployed and gradually becoming a popular form of teaching in universities today. To achieve the quality of e-learning teaching requires the impact of many factors, in which the e-learning environment of students is important. This paper explored experiences on e-learning environment of students of The University of Danang - University of Foreign Language Studies (UD-UFLS) to improve e-learning environment of the university's students. The study refered to most students’ awareness of the importance of e-learning at university. The advantages and disadvantages of e-learning at the university (UD-UFLS) have also been identified. Through the results of the student survey, the content of the teacher's skills, the content of policies and management of e-learning activities, facilities and funding for e-learning implementation, class size, and student e-learning culture in e-learning are rated. The results of a questionnaire survey of 407 students of the UD-UFLS show a picture of students' e-learning environment and are the basis for proposing some measures to improve e-learning environment of the university's students.
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PublicationLocative Prepositions “at, in, on” and Translation to Vietnamese Through Frameworks( 2021)THI TUYET HANH NGUYENBased on the role of the frame of reference under the influence of point-of-view culture in the British and Vietnamese ethnic groups used as a cognitive premise in the translation, the article presents the justification of the contracting process about the reasons, similarities and differences as well as the semantic differences of the locating preposition “at, in, on” in English with the corresponding linguistic units in Vietnamese through specific communication contexts. Research results show that if the reference object (DTQC) in the positioning reference system of the English preposition is assimilated with the speaker in Vietnamese [similar to the reference frame in the reference system] then, the translation semantics of the preposition “at, in, on” will be similar to the expression semantics of the corresponding units in Vietnamese. In contrast, the different structural semantics are manifested because there is no similarity in the frame of reference.
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PublicationThe Effects of Collaborative Writing on Students’ Writing Fluency: An Efficient Framework for Collaborative Writing( 2021)Vu Phi Ho PhamCollaborative writing is widely researched for its effects on students’ writing accuracy; however, previous research studies fail to prove its effects on students’ writing fluency. Also, none of the previous studies have investigated the framework for students to compose argumentative essays collaboratively. The purpose of this article is to fill these gaps. Sixty-two sophomore English-major students at a university in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, participated in the study. One difference in the treatment between the two groups was the composing stage. Twenty-seven students from the control group composed essays individually after they worked together for idea development to make an outline, whereas 35 students from the experimental group composed essays collaboratively. Data collection was from students’ pretests, posttests of both individually and collaboratively written papers, and from the semi-structured interviews. The study reveals that collaborative writing had great effects on students’ writing fluency in both collaboratively written papers and individually written papers. Also, the study invented an efficient framework for collaborative writing activities so that writing instructors could employ to their writing classrooms if they wish to.
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PublicationThe Effect of WeChat-Based Online Instruction on EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge( 2021)
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PublicationThe Role of Co-Creating Value and Its Outcomes in Higher Education Marketing( 2021)
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PublicationMicrosoft Teams in the context of freshmen ELF learning( 2021)Trần Thị Thanh MaiThe aim of this research paper is to determine how Microsoft teams worked when teaching the first-year English at Van Lang University through the COVID-19 pandemic. Microsoft Teams is a new application used by the university, and this paper reports on the experience of using it for other colleagues to critique and improve on. The sample for this study consisted of eighty freshmen selected from four classes. A set of questionnaires with fifteen Likert-scale items together with interviews served as instruments for data collection. The findings demonstrated that using Microsoft Teams for teaching and learning was an effective way to keep learning activities going on. In general, despite some inconveniences with the technological problems, the students were eager to a new means of learning but did not make good use of this collaboration tool in their learning. Also, the research paper results reveal that the participants possessed positive attitudes towards the benefits of using Microsoft Teams in online learning. In contrast, they expressed an unfavorable perspective on the drawbacks of using this tool respectively.
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PublicationBoosting English Majors’ Ability in Pronouncing Stressed Vowels via Blue Canoe, a Mobile based Application: A Focus on Vietnamese EFL Learners( 2021)
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PublicationThe Effectiveness of Using Technology in Learning English( 2021)
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PublicationThe Effects of Vietnamese High School Teacher’s Utility of Google Forms on Eleventh Graders’ Grammatical Knowledge( 2021)Phạm Vũ Phi HổIn Vietnam, grammar has been taught with conventional teaching methods such as the Grammar Translation Method and Audio Lingual Method, which still focus on paper based grammar exercises in high schools. These traditional methods demotivate students' learning interest and motivation and fail to increase their independent learning and the effectiveness of grammar i nstruction. The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of Vietnamese high school teachers’ utilization of Google Forms on eleventh graders’ grammatical knowledge and their perceptions of Google Forms in learning English grammar The study results emphasized the intervention of eleventh grade students' knowledge of grammar and their perceptions of this treatment. The study's findings indicated that the integration of Google Forms successfully aided students in enhancing their achievement of grammati cal knowledge. Furthermore, students have a positive attitude towards this application into grammar teaching
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PublicationThe Effects of Task-Based Instruction on High School Students' Writing Outcomes( 2021)
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PublicationThe effectiveness in teaching and learning Political Economy in Vietnamese educational system( 2021)Trần Văn HiểnThis study aims to understand and test the factors influencing the effectiveness of learning and teaching political economy among Vietnamese universities. Over 1500 students from different majors and different school years have taken part in this study. The data collected from questionnaires was analyzed by SPSS version 2016 and EVIEW 10. From this study, it can be said that learning motivations and teaching methods are the most important factors driving the success of teaching and learning the political economy. Furthermore, males seem to be more interested in studying this subject and getting a higher GPA compared to females. Students from higher school-year, by contrast, have lower levels of interest in studying this module, leading to the lower effectiveness in teaching and learning this module. Finally, while teaching methods and teaching quality are positively correlated with the dependent variable, the administration service and infrastructure negatively influence the teaching and learning objectives.
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PublicationCác nhân tố tác động đến sự hứng thú trong học tập của sinh viên( 2021)
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PublicationVận dụng mô hình Flipped Classroom trong giảng dạy bậc đại học tại việt nam hiện nay( 2021)Phạm Thị Thu HuyềnMô hình Filipped classroom là một trong những mô hình đang được áp dụng rộng rãi tại một số nước như Mỹ, Australia,... khi tiến hành dạy online. Tuy nhiên, đối với Việt Nam, đây vẫn còn là một mô hình dạy học còn khá mới. Trên cơ sở phân tích những ưu và nhược điểm của mô hình Filipped classroom khi áp dụng vào giảng dạy đại học tại Việt Nam hiện nay, bài viết sẽ đưa ra một số kiến nghị để nâng cao hiệu quả của mô hình này khi áp dụng vào thực tế.
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PublicationAssessing the quality of e-learning teaching by lecturers at universities in Vietnam( 2021)Nguyễn Hữu NăngWith the growing popularity of the internet and the continued growth, universities are focusing more on web-based strategies to deliver higher education (e.g., e-learning). Despite this, very little research on e-learning service quality has been done to test the effectiveness of these efforts. Therefore, we researched two hundred-ten teachers, including 111 men and 99 women, who participated and used the quality of e-learning teaching questionnaires at several Vietnamese universities. In addition, we use the t-test and MANOVA test to assess each gender and experience group of the lecture. The results found that regarding the quality of e-learning teaching questionnaires scores, men were found to have higher scores than women. However, the teachers who had gone under the study showed a positive attitude to E-learning quality through lectures, and they would be interested in performing E-learning. Evaluating the quality of e-learning teaching is possible and well received by the lecturers. In addition, the assessment of quality learning helps to improve the system of e-learning at Vietnamese universities