TAILIEUCHUNG - The integration of intercultural education into teaching English: what Vietnamese teachers do and say

To enable the Vietnamese youth to join the international workforce during ASEAN integration, teaching English in general education has undertaken a reform with the aim of intercultural communicative competence instead of communicative competence. Since building learners’ intercultural communicative competence requires their personal engagement in social interaction, teachers should follow a proper approach to activate students’ participation in intercultural communication. This research studied to what extent upper secondary school teachers perceived and practiced intercultural integration prior the educational reform. Data collected from 101 participating teachers through questionnaires and open-ended questions proved that (1) teachers had good understanding of intercultural integration, but (2) they rarely conducted intercultural activities in practices, and (3) teachers’ graduate education, not international experience or coursebook teaching, had a positive impact on their intercultural teaching practices. The findings suggested that educational management should be consistent with the progressive reform through the synchronization of all curricular factors towards intercultural education, and teachers should be oriented with intercultural teaching pedagogy to conduct suitable activities to develop students’ intercultural communicative competence. | The integration of intercultural education into teaching English: what Vietnamese teachers do and say

• Giáo dục học
• Educational reform
• Intercultural communicative competence
• Intercultural integration
• Teachers’ perceptions and practices
• Teaching English
• Vietnamese educational philosophyin
• Viewpoints on vietnamese educational philosophyin the reform era
• Vocational education systems
• Philosophical perspectives on Vietnamese education
• Traditional educational philosophy
• Dissertation summary Educational management
• Educational management
• Fostering teaching competencies
• Lower secondary school teachers
• Direction of general education reform
• Ebook Technology enhanced learning
• Quality of teaching
• Open learning platform
• Technology enhanced learning for people
• Learning toolkit
• Virtual text based environment
• Vocational teacher training colleges
• Multicultural Interdisciplinary Handbook
• Tools for learning history and geography
• Energy research and social sience
• Secondary school teachers
• Professional identity
• Secondary school teacher
• Reform in new Gaokao
• Educational cooperation model
• Teacher training
• Training form
• Viet Nam’s pedagogical universities
• Social Sciences
• Educational reforms
• School based management
• School reform policy
• Structural equation modeling
• Student achievement
• Teacher motivation
• Education Reform
• Educational Technology
• Mathematics
• Teacher Effectiveness
• Teachers and Teaching
• Ministry Responsibilities
• Service Provider
• business planning
• Continuous Improvement
• Understanding Results
• Improvement Strategies
• Primary education
• Teaching mathematics
• Educational innovation
• Mathematics theory
• Professional competencies
• Social issues
• Economics of social issues
• Lecture Economics of social issues
• Economics of education
• Increased demand for education
• Educational expenditures
• Intercultural competence
• Intercultural integration
• Teachers’ perceptions
• Upper secondary education
• Public health
• Unemployment insurance
• Policy change
• Quasi experimenta
• Low educated individuals