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In 2019, Vietnam was listed in the low-proficiency category, for the first time since 2015, down from "moderate" in preceding years, and ranked 52nd out of 100 nations in English proficiency, according to EF English Proficiency Index, released by Swiss Education First (EF), a global language training company. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese students perform worst in English in national high school exam

CẦN THƠ — There is a special class on Sơn Islet in the Mekong Delta province of Cần Thơ’s Bình Thủy District, which all farmers from the local area can attend to learn English for free on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. … [Read more...] about Farmers in Mekong Delta attend floating English class

The V-Challenge has attracted 13,460 candidates. Of these, 2,302 have attended the final round in which they have answered 30 English multiple choice questions in science, society, geography, history and arts. The top 15 best candidates were chosen. … [Read more...] about 300 students win prizes in VUS English contests

The Ministry of Education and Training on August 27 announced the results of this year's national final exams or high school graduation exams. This is considered the most important exams as many local universities and colleges will enrol students based on these results. Of the nine subjects which students did in the exams, English continued to report the lowest marks. According to the ministry's report, nearly 750,000 students took part in the English test and approximately 473,000 of them, or 63.13%, scored below the average mark of 5 out of 10. As many as 543 students got zero. The average mark for English was 4.58 this year which is 0.2 higher than last year's score," the ministry said. "However, English was still the subject with lowest scores this year compared to other eight subjects of maths, literature, history, geography, physics, chemistry, biology and civic education." Explaining the poor English results, Tran Phuong Mai who had more than nine years of teaching English … [Read more...] about National exams reveal poor English

Education specialists were not surprised at the poor results, saying the scores reflect the quality of English teaching and learning in Việt Nam despite a project from the Ministry of Education and Training to improve the quality of foreign language teaching nationwide in the 2008-20 period. … [Read more...] about Poor English exam results reflect teaching quality: education experts