New regulations on organizing foreign language training in undergraduate and postgraduate training programs

According to this Guide, foreign language courses organized for training in training programs (CTDT) at VNU include: English, Russian, French, Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Lao and Thai, details are specified in Appendix 1 of this Guide. In case the training unit has a need to organize the teaching of other foreign languages, the unit must send a written request to the Director of VNU for consideration and decision.

* For University level:Foreign language courses are compulsory courses that students must accumulate and are organized for general training throughout VNU. The results of foreign language course evaluations are calculated into the semester average, the average grade of each course, and the cumulative average grade. The number of credits for compulsory foreign language courses in university training programs is Foreign Language B1: 5 credits (for standard training programs), Foreign Language B2: 5 credits (for talented, high-quality training programs).

Students of the training program requiring output standards (CDR) level 3 must accumulate Foreign Language B1 credits. Students of the training program requiring output standards (CDR) level 4 must accumulate Foreign Language B1 and B2 credits. Students are considered to have completed foreign language credits when they accumulate all required credits and have credits at the level required in Regulation 3626. Students' foreign language CDR is recorded by valid certificates (Appendix 2 in the attached file below).
Students who submit a foreign language certificate that meets the CDR requirements of the training program within 30 days of enrollment will be considered for recognition of meeting the CDR and will be exempted from studying, exempted from taking exams and converted to equivalent points of the corresponding foreign course in the general knowledge block, specifically: level 3 is equivalent to 9 points, level 4 is equivalent to 10 points (on a 10-point scale). For the QH-2022 course, students with valid foreign language certificates must submit them before May 1, 2023 to be recognized as equivalent according to regulations.

* For Master's degree:Foreign language courses in the master's training program are compulsory courses that students must accumulate and are assessed as passing or failing. Foreign language courses are assessed as passing if students achieve a score of C or higher or achieve a CDR according to Regulation 3636. The number of foreign language credits in the master's training program is Foreign Language B2 (SĐH): 5 credits, which are counted in the number of accumulated credits in the training program but are not used to calculate the cumulative average score.
The accumulated value of foreign language credits is realized through teaching and learning activities in class and self-accumulation activities of students and trainees, aiming to achieve the foreign language proficiency standards prescribed inRegulation 3626andRegulation 3636.
Requirements for foreign language proficiency of university training programs are specified in Clause 3, Article 13, Regulation 3626; master's training programs are specified in Clause 2, Article 35, Regulation 3636, doctoral training programs are specified in Clause 8, Article 9, Regulation 3638. Forms of determining foreign language proficiency are specified in Section 3 of this Guide.

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