SHORT-TERM TRAINING PROGRAM ON TEACHING VIETNAMESE TO FOREIGNERS

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

2. Training objects
Vietnamese and foreigners who are qualified and in need of training and certification in Vietnamese Language Teaching Methods for Foreigners to become teachers.

3. Training time
150 periods (10 credits)

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

After the course, students will gain the following knowledge:
- Learners grasp basic knowledge of Vietnamese phonetics, vocabulary, and grammar and, to a certain extent, can predict learners' difficulties in phonetics, vocabulary, grammar, etc. arising due to the characteristics of Vietnamese.
- Learners know how to convey knowledge about Vietnamese through lectures, language and culture exercises. At the same time, learners also understand the method of designing lectures and exercises to teach Vietnamese to foreigners.
- Learners are aware of their role as teachers, conveying knowledge correctly, and having appropriate teaching methods for the learners.

5. Type of diploma awarded
Certificate.
- Certificate name: "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: COURSE OUTLINE BY PROGRAM

1. Module 1: Vietnamese phonetics and methods of teaching Vietnamese phonetics
This course provides learners with basic knowledge of Vietnamese phonetics: characteristics of the Latin writing system, with tone marks, characteristics of a syllabic language, with a structure consisting of initial consonants, medial sounds, main sounds that are 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 to correct 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 preparing Vietnamese phonetics lessons/lectures/textbooks.
- Discuss/Answer learners' questions about Vietnamese phonetics
2. Module 2: Vocabulary and teaching methods 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 Vietnamese vocabulary characteristics
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 preparing vocabulary practice exercises
- Skills in compiling vocabulary exercises;
- The contents of vocabulary
- Discuss TV vocabulary issues
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 around the world to teaching Vietnamese grammar - Teaching NP with communicative units (the ultimate goal is that students can communicate)
Content 3: Prepare NP practice exercises;
Content 4: Prepare NP practice exercises (continued); Answer questions
4. Module 4: Methods of designing lectures and exercises
This course provides learners with principles when designing lectures, exercises, and the general structure of a lecture. The course also trains learners in the skills of choosing topics, choosing vocabulary according to the topic and grammar issues to include in the lesson, and the skills of building exercises for 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 of 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 also trains learners in the skills of preparing practice lessons to correct errors of foreigners learning Vietnamese.
Content 1: Error concept, Interference error, Intra-language error, Error classification
Content 2: Prepare practice lessons to correct errors for students
7. Module 7: Curriculum Design Skills
This course provides learners with the principles they need to master (paying due attention to study time, purposes, requirements, and levels of foreign students) and the skills to choose basic Vietnamese grammar and vocabulary issues that are consistent with the principles outlined.
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 course helps learners practice practical classroom skills and skills to solve common problems encountered in teaching hours.
Content 1: Prepare lectures according to the curriculum and Prepare lectures designed by yourself
Content 2: Compile lectures by topic (newspapers, clips, jokes, books, travel, culture, history, religion, .....)
Content 3: Practice teaching phonetics - words - grammar
Content 4: Practice teaching phonetics - vocabulary - grammar integrated into skills: listening - speaking; reading - writing
Content 5: General discussion and Course summary
9. Elective courses
This course adds some knowledge and experience to learners; This course also trains practical classroom skills to meet the needs of 2 types of subjects.
Elective group 1: 2 credits (For those who simultaneously teach foreigners from many geographical regions such as Europe, Asia, America...)

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