VietNamNet Bridge – Most of the primary schools in Hanoi now
run the international English teaching programs together with the standard
program set up by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET).
Rushing to learn English
Under the MOET’s program on
teaching foreign languages in the national educational system in 2008-2020, students
from third grade would learn English at school.
However, in fact, not only third
and subsequent graders, but the students, who begin going to school, now also
learn English under the programs arranged by the schools where they go to.
Vice Headmaster of the Trung Van
School in Tu Liem district Giang Thanh Thuy said the school’s first and second
graders now follow Phonics English teaching program.
Nguyen Thi Xuan Lan, Headmaster
of the Khuong Thuong School, also said the English teaching in accordance with
Phonics curriculum for the last five years. The curriculum has been provided by
VP Box Company.
Lan went on to say that all the
schools in Dong Da district all run extra English teaching programs to help
first and second graders get familiar with the subject.
A parent whose child goes to the
Ngoc Thuy Primary School in Gia Lam district said that the first and second
graders of the school now follow either Language Link or Phonics, and third
graders, besides the MOET’s standard curriculum, have to learn English with
Phonics as well.
Thuy of Trung Van School said
though the English programs are not compulsory for first and second graders,
most of the students have registered the English learning. The teachers are the
school’s teachers who have attended training courses to obtain better knowledge
and new pedagogical methods.
Students have two English lessons
a week, for which they have to pay 50,000 dong in tuition.
Since the 2012-2013 academic
year, students would have four English lessons a week with Vietnamese teachers
and the other four lessons with Australian teachers provided by the school’s
partner. Therefore, the tuition has increased to 120,000 dong.
Meanwhile, the students of the
Thai Thinh Primary School in Dong Da district reportedly pay 150,000 dong a
month for two lessons a week. A parent of a Hoang Dieu School’s student said he
was asked to pay 6 million dong for one-year English learning, or 600,000 dong
a month.
How high are the teachers’ qualifications?
Lan affirmed that her students
have been very interested with the international English curriculums, while
they also have the opportunities to talk with native speakers. This explains
why parents all let their children to attend the extra English classes. The
standard curriculums compiled by MOET are believed to be too focusing on
grammar.
However, some parents have
complained that their children have been forced to follow the English teaching
program, though they don’t want to. The parents said they still have doubts
about the teachers’ qualification.
Phuong, whose daughter goes to
the Ngoc Thuy Primary School, said that the girl, who began learning English
with American teachers from an early age, discovered that the teachers at the
school had bad pronunciations.
“I reported this to the school
and asked for another teacher,” he said.
Phuong also thinks that with 60
students in every class, a teacher would not have time to take care for everyone.
“An ideal class should comprise
of 25 students only,” he said.
Meanwhile, another parent said
though paying 6 million dong a year for the child’s English study at the
school, she still brings the child to an English center as well to be sure that
the child can learn in a best environment.
Van Chung
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