In today’s global world, English which is used as a global means of communication, has been playing an important role in many sectors including science, education, medicine, engineering, economy, etc. English is extremely essential to the field of tourism business in many nations especially in Vietnam.

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This paper attempts to suggest a learning approach that is believed to solve the problem; the blended learning. This is not a new idea in language teaching literature. However, the combination between traditional face-to-face classroom and the application of Internet and communication technology might lessen the burden for the teachers because of the advantages of the learning approach. Students can develop selfregulated learning styles...

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This paper presents parts of the findings of a recent study carried out with three objectives: (1) to analyze the linguistic features of Nivea advertisements which are designed to attract customers; (2) to discover the discourse strategies used in Nivea advertisements to construct the concept of ideal beauty; and (3) to investigate the social implications of Nivea beauty product advertisements.

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The author conducted a qualitative research project to see how it was designed and taught at the School of Foreign Languages. The researcher compared and analysed the course syllabus with NAATI test format, used a questionnaire and observed teachers’ classes to collect data. The findings showed a mismatch between the course’s important position and the standards by NAATI as well as the teaching methods demonstrated by the teachers.

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Speaking seems to be the most important skills of all the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Nowadays, it is not easy for learners to speak English well, so the purpose of this study was to find out the effectiveness of using language games to improve the first - year students’ speaking performance at Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry (TUAF).

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With the aim to explore the effectiveness of cooperative learning (CL) activities on improving students’ perception and attitudes towards writing skills, the researcher employed two different teaching methods to teach two groups in 10 weeks: CL for experimental group and traditional method for control group.

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Young people including students have developed their language use in social networking sites like Facebook in their own ways, among which the insert of English in their posts has become part of their communication and a quite new interesting fact. However, it seems that there have been not so many research working on this phenomenon.

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This study investigates on the most frequently used vocabulary learning strategies of the secondyear non-English major students at Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry. The research method approach of the study was descriptive method and a questionnaire was used as the main data collection instrument.

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Reading is a source of learning and a source of enjoyment. Especially, in a second foreign language situation, a good reading ability is necessary for those studying English for academic and occupational purposes and many universities’curricula. Many previous studies showed that students devote large amounts of time to reading lessons in order to achieve such competence.

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This article has examined the current situation of teachers’ use of target language in Binh Son 1, Binh Son 2 and Cai Dan primary schools in Song Cong City, Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam. Moreover, the paper has pointed out the teachers’ difficulties in maximizing the target language use.

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At present, English is officially taught to Vietnamese learners from grade three onwards. Previously, English language teaching and learning had long focused on putting in great efforts to develop the functions and uses of English. The fact is that despite being proficient in English, most Vietnamese students who graduate from a university are unable to communicate effectively in English with co-workers from different cultural backgrounds.

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This study investigated the congruency of the classroom management styles and teacher-student relationship as well as its influence on student learning outcomes. The classroom management styles are categorized as authoritarian, autocratic, democratic and laissez faire. The study employed the quantitative aspect which was the determination of the profile, classroom management styles, teacher-student relationship and the learning outcomes.

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