SHORT-TERM TRAINING PROGRAM ON VIETNAMESE LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODS FOR FOREIGNERS

1. Training objectives
Provide learners with basic knowledge of Vietnamese phonetics, vocabulary, and grammar. Train learners in teaching methods of Vietnamese phonetics, vocabulary, and grammar, and methods of teaching Vietnamese listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Train learners in lesson preparation, lesson design, language program design (with the possibility of integrating culture), and design exercises to correct errors of foreigners.

2. Target audience for training
Vietnamese and foreigners who are qualified and willing to receive training and certification in Vietnamese Language Teaching Methods for Foreigners can become teachers.

3. Training duration
150 periods (10 credits)

4. Total course load
Total credits to be accumulated: 10 credits, including:

After the course, students will gain the following knowledge:
- Learners acquire basic knowledge of Vietnamese phonetics, vocabulary, and grammar, and to a certain extent, can anticipate the difficulties learners may encounter regarding phonetics, vocabulary, and grammar due to the unique characteristics of the Vietnamese language.
- Learners will know how to convey knowledge about the Vietnamese language through lectures, language exercises, and cultural lessons. At the same time, learners will also grasp methods for designing lectures and exercises to teach Vietnamese to foreigners.
- Learners are aware of their role as teachers, conveying knowledge accurately, and using teaching methods appropriate to their audience.

5. Type of diploma awarded
Certificate.
- Certificate title: "Methods of teaching Vietnamese to foreigners"
(Methodology of Teaching Vietnamese to Speakers of Other Languages ​​(TVSOL))
- Certificate issued by University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU Hanoi.

6. Training program content

APPENDIX: OUTLINE OF COURSES ACCORDING TO THE PROGRAM

1. Module 1: Vietnamese phonetics and methods of teaching Vietnamese phonetics
This course provides learners with basic knowledge of Vietnamese phonetics: characteristics of Latin writing, with tone marks, characteristics of a syllabic language, with a structure consisting of initial consonants, medial sounds, main sounds as vowels or diphthongs, final sounds, 6 tones
This course also trains learners in methods of preparing phonetic practice lessons and skills of teaching phonetics to foreigners.
Content 1: Overview of Vietnamese phonetic characteristics

Content 2: Methods and skills for teaching Vietnamese phonetics

Content 3: Some notes on phonetics and skills for correcting Vietnamese phonetic errors.
- Some notes on Vietnamese phonetics (phonetic standards, spelling, pronunciation, etc.)
- Some errors in pronouncing consonants (g, ng, nh, l, đ, ……), vowels (ê-e, ư-ơ, ….), medial sounds, tones, final sounds and some rhymes
- Skills/principles of compiling Vietnamese phonetics exercises/lectures/textbooks.
- Discuss/Answer learners' questions about Vietnamese phonetics.
2. Module 2: Vocabulary and Teaching Methods for Vietnamese Vocabulary
This course provides learners with basic knowledge of Vietnamese vocabulary - a monosyllabic language, analyzing the properties, vocabulary units expressed by 1 syllable (monosyllabic word) or more than 1 syllable (compound word, reduplicated word), and the characteristics of Vietnamese word classes. This course also trains learners in vocabulary lesson preparation methods and vocabulary teaching skills for foreigners.

Content 1: Overview of the characteristics of Vietnamese vocabulary
Content 2: Methods and Skills for Teaching Vietnamese Vocabulary (Creatively and appropriately applying foreign language teaching methods around the world to teaching Vietnamese vocabulary)

Content 3: Skills in composing vocabulary practice exercises
- Skills in compiling vocabulary practice exercises;
- The contents of vocabulary
- Discuss issues related to TV vocabulary.
3. Module 3: Vietnamese grammar and methods of teaching Vietnamese grammar
This course provides learners with basic knowledge of Vietnamese grammar - an analytic, non-inflected, categorical language, and grammatical meaning is expressed through word order, function words, and intonation...
This course also trains learners in methods of preparing grammar practice lessons and skills of teaching Vietnamese grammar to foreigners.
Content 1: Overview of TV grammar features
Content 2: Creatively and appropriately apply foreign language teaching methods in the world to teaching Vietnamese grammar - Teaching NP with communication units (the ultimate goal is that students can communicate)
Content 3: Prepare NP practice exercises;
Content 4: Preparing NP practice exercises (continued); Answering questions
4. Module 4: Methods for designing lectures and exercises
This course provides students with the principles of lesson design, practice exercises, and the general structure of a lesson. The course also trains students in the skills of choosing topics, choosing vocabulary based on the topic and grammar issues to include in the lesson, and the skills of creating practice exercises based on the given topics, vocabulary, and grammar.
Content 1: Skills to build topics and structure lectures according to lesson content (topics and vocabulary - grammar)
Content 2: Skills in selecting documents and allocating content according to level.


5. Module 5: Teaching Methods for Vietnamese Culture Through Language
This course provides learners with methods for integrating cultural issues into language lessons and trains learners in the skills of preparing cultural-language practice lessons.
Content 1: Some general features of basic socio-cultural characteristics of Vietnam
Content 2: Skills to integrate cultural knowledge into language lessons
6. Module 6: Methods of preparing error correction exercises for students
This course provides learners with the concept of errors, error classification, and at the same time trains learners in the skills of preparing practice lessons to correct errors of foreigners learning Vietnamese.
Content 1: Concept of errors, Interference errors, Intralingual errors, Error classification
Content 2: Prepare error correction practice lessons for students
7. Module 7: Curriculum Design Skills
This module provides learners with the essential principles to master (paying due attention to study time, objectives, requirements, and the proficiency level of foreign learners) and the skills to select fundamental Vietnamese grammar, vocabulary, and other relevant topics in accordance with these principles.
Content 1: Basis for designing study programs for students (short-term, long-term, major - non-major, age, gender, …………….)
Content 2: Discussion from students' reality
8. Module 8: Internship
This module helps learners develop practical classroom skills and problem-solving skills for common issues encountered during teaching.
Content 1: Preparing lectures based on the curriculum and preparing lectures designed by yourself.
Content 2: Compiling lectures on specific topics (newspapers, clips, jokes, books, travel, culture, history, religion, etc.)
Content 3: Practice teaching phonetics, vocabulary, and grammar.
Content 4: Practice teaching phonetics, vocabulary, and grammar integrated into listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.
Content 5: Comprehensive Discussion and Course Summary
9. Elective courses
This module supplements learners' knowledge and experience; it also hones practical classroom skills to meet the needs of two types of learners.
Elective Group 1: 2 credits (For those who simultaneously teach international students from various geographical regions such as Europe, Asia, America, etc.)

01 session x 4 periods

01 session x 4 periods

01 session x 4 periods

02 sessions x 4 periods

Group 2 elective: 2 credits (For those who have no practical classroom experience)

1.5 sessions x 4 periods

1.5 sessions x 4 periods

4.5 sessions x 4 periods