Ministry of Education pilots teaching Russian and Chinese

The Ministry of Education is developing a general education program for Russian and Chinese from grades 3 to 12 and will pilot teaching them as the first foreign language next school year.

The National Foreign Language Project 2020 has the main goal of improving the quality of teaching and learning English in the national education system. Along with English, the Ministry of Education and Training is piloting the teaching of Russian, Chinese, and Japanese as the first foreign language.

The Ministry will develop a 10-year general education program for Russian and Chinese, from grades 3 to 12, based on the 6-level foreign language competency framework for Vietnam in 2017. The Ministry will also soon review and promulgate this program as a basis for compiling and selecting textbooks and learning materials for teaching and learning in general schools.

In the 2016-2017 school year, the Ministry piloted teaching Japanese from grade 3 at 5 schools in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, including Nguyen Du Primary School, Khuong Thuong Primary School, Chu Van An Primary School, Gateway International Primary School and Viet-Uc School (Ho Chi Minh City). This subject was gradually expanded across the country, especially in localities with the desire and conditions to implement it.

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Korean and French are being piloted as second foreign languages. This school year, Korean will be piloted in grades 6 and 10 at some schools in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. In the 2017-2025 period, this foreign language will be implemented in the following grades of junior high school and high school. After the pilot, schools that have the conditions and demand can continue to teach Korean as a second foreign language.

French teaching continues to be innovated, adjusting the French bilingual program from primary to high school in the direction of streamlining and modernization. At the same time, completing the French foreign language textbook series 2, volume 1 to suit the context of Vietnam.

Minister Phung Xuan Nha said that the project will initially focus on improving the quality of English, but encourages provinces to teach other foreign languages ​​depending on the actual situation.

"For learning a foreign language to progress quickly, learners need to expand their interactions with native teachers and foreign students. Whatever language they learn, they need to approach people who speak that language," he said, suggesting that schools need to build learning resource centers and use reputable sources of documents from around the world for teachers and students to refer to and serve teaching.

According to VNE