VietNamNet Bridge – While Vietnamese students feel excited with
the new teaching method applied by foreign teachers, their parents, who have
generation differences with their children, have expressed their worry that the
new method may do more harm than good.
Western is better than Vietnamese
Educators say the biggest
advantage of the western teaching method is that it allows to establish
friendly and open relations between teachers and students. In general, foreign
teachers are always very enthusiastic, who always come to class earlier and
stay late at school to clear up students’ queries.
Being open minded, dynamic,
European teachers are always creative, generating the games so as to attract
students to join. Especially, in the classes, students do not play a passive
role, sitting and listening to the teachers. With the student-centered teaching
method, students can be the subjects of the lessons, which allows them better
understand the lessons.
Thu Anh, a 10th grader, now going
to ILA English Center at No. 49 Hai Ba Trung Street in Hanoi, said she enjoys
the English lesson with a US teacher very much.
“The teacher is so enthusiastic.
If we cannot be present at the class, the teacher would correct our school
works and then email us back,” he said.
David, the teacher, understands
that the biggest problem of Vietnamese students when learning foreign languages
is the hesitance to communicate. This leads to the bad speaking skill and the
bad pronunciation. Therefore, he organizes a free pronunciation lesson a well
opened to all students.
An officer of Sao Viet English
Center at No. 155 on Xuan Thuy Road in Hanoi, said the center has employed six
foreign teachers to satisfy the increasingly high demand for learning English
with native speakers.
She said that a lot of children
said they really enjoy learning with a teacher named Sam from the UK. They said
they don’t feel tired during the lessons, but they feel as if they play very
attractive games.
Thu Thao, a parent whose daughter
is a student of the teacher, also said she found the teaching method of Sam
very interesting.
“He always suggests games during
the lessons for students to join. My daughter really enjoys the games which
help her remember words very quickly,” Thao said.
When asked about the western
teaching style, the students of an English center on Lang Road in Hanoi, said
that they “like the western teachers more than Vietnamese ones” and that they
also like the English lessons provided by the western teachers more, because
they can freely speak, smile and play during the lessons.
More harm than good?
While a lot of parents, who have
been influenced by the western lifestyle, applaud the western teaching method,
conservative traditional Vietnamese parents feel worried that the western style
may badly affect their children’s characteristics.
A parent said that she once
attended an English lesson with a foreign teacher, where she felt inconvenient
in a noisy classroom. Students laughed and talked, answered the teacher’s
questions and ate popcorn. The teacher did not stand on the lecture hall dais,
but sat on students’ table.
The foreign teachers not only
teach English, but also bring western lifestyle. In many cases, the teachers
expressed their satisfaction with students’ answers by embracing students, thus
making female students feel insecure.
Thu Minh, a parent in Tay Ho
district, said she has prohibited her daughter to go to the English class on
Lang Road, after finding out that the girl really likes the US teacher. The
girl gave up official lessons at school, but she attended all the picnic
parties organized by the US teacher. As a result, she got a lot of bad marks
from the teachers at school.
Compiled by Kim Chi
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