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Papers by Dan Cong Thai

European Journal of Alternative Education Studies

This study is to research and collect data on the current situation of teacher development in pub... more This study is to research and collect data on the current situation of teacher development in public preschools in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City, Vietnam, using the survey from the principal (n = 4), vice-principal (n = 8), professional team leader and deputy team (n = 50) from 4 kindergartens, namely Rang Dong Kindergarten, Hoang Yen Kindergarten, June 1 Kindergarten, September 2 Kindergarten, with the three specific objectives: first, to systematize the theoretical basis for the development of PKSs; second, to survey on the current situation of teacher development in PKSs in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City; and finally, to propose some measures to develop teaching staff at PKSs in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City. And there are three research questions as follows (1) What is the current situation of developing teaching staff of public kindergarten schools in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City? (2) What are the suggested measures to develop the teaching staff of public kindergart...

European Journal of Alternative Education Studies

The current paper attempted to perform an action research to measure the effects of using project... more The current paper attempted to perform an action research to measure the effects of using project-based learning (PBL) on students’ writing performance and their perceptions towards the use of PBL in writing lessons. In response to research aims, objectives, and questions, the researcher adopted mixed methods with the use of quantitative and qualitative approaches. While pre-test and post-test were adopted to collect quantitative data to measure whether the use of PBL promoted students’ performance after action research interventions, student questionnaires and teacher interviews were respectively used to collect quantitative and qualitative data of students’ perceptions of using PBL to promote their writing performance. One hundred Grade 9 and four in-charge English students were selected as research samples. Overall, the analysis of research data reveals the following findings: 1) Descriptive statistics and results of sample t-test of test scores indicated that there was a statist...

European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies

This study examined the challenges of learning English-American literature for English majors at ... more This study examined the challenges of learning English-American literature for English majors at Can Tho University (CTU), Vietnam. The study aimed to answer the two questions, which are the difficulties encountered by English majors and their suggested solutions to improve their learning of British-American literature/literary. The target audience was 100 English majors who have studied English-American literary works at CTU, Vietnam. A questionnaire and an interview were used to collect data for this study. A questionnaire was used to support quantitative data while an interview was used for the qualitative method. This study hoped to find out the students’ difficulties, thereby proposing solutions to overcome and improve the quality of students' literary studies. Article visualizations:

European Journal of Alternative Education Studies

Managing English teaching activities for Grade 10 in high schools is one of the most important ta... more Managing English teaching activities for Grade 10 in high schools is one of the most important tasks and activities because it plays a decisive role in the success of teaching and the improvement of teaching quality for Grade 10 in high schools. This activity shows not only the results and quality of the students’ study but also the education management of managers and teaching activities of teachers in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City, Vietnam. The study was conducted at 4 high schools in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City, namely Phan Ngoc Hien High School, Chau Van Liem High School, An Khanh High School, and Nguyen Viet Hong High School. Participants in the survey by questionnaires were school managers (n = 4), English teachers (n = 17) and 10th Graders (n = 456). And the findings showed that to achieve the desired effect in the management of teaching activities of 10th Grade English at a high school in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City, the administrator or the school leader needs ...

European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies

In the teaching process, as a teacher, we need to pay attention to many factors to create an effe... more In the teaching process, as a teacher, we need to pay attention to many factors to create an effective lesson plan such as: target, objective, and environment and nowadays Visual Aids (VS) is one of the most popular tools and dealing with a direct effect on students learning process. Visual Aids can improve students’ long-term memory process. Besides, we do not have a deep understanding of how to use VS in the right way and at which level VS can engage students learning process. In this paper, the researchers focused on summarizing teachers’ perceptions of how to use VS effectively and the hypothesis of these teachers’ experiences to gain a result on how teachers could use VS to engage students in their learning process. The researchers collected the data by using a questionnaire on 44 senior high school teachers, including 20 male teachers and 24 female teachers and 150 students (70 males and 80 females) from Grade 12 and semi-structured interviews (6 teachers and 6 students) were ...

European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies

A mixed-methods design (Creswell & Creswell, 2018) was adopted in this action research to examine... more A mixed-methods design (Creswell & Creswell, 2018) was adopted in this action research to examine the effects of reading strategy instruction with four reading strategies - previewing the text, predictions, text-structure awareness, inferencing - on reading performance of non-English majored freshmen in English preparation classes of a private university in Vietnam. Thirty-six students in pre-intermediate English proficiency level participated in the study. Over six weeks, these students received the four reading strategies instruction explicitly in accordance with CALLA model. Via the explanatory sequential design, a type of mixed methods research involves two-phase data collection (Creswell & Creswell, 2018). The results of the pre-post-tests and 11 closed-ended response items in the paper-based questionnaire were analyzed quantitatively while 6 interviews were analyzed qualitatively to provide further explanations of the quantitative results. The study has found that four reading...

European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies

This study aims to investigate two issues. Firstly, it explores English as a foreign language (EF... more This study aims to investigate two issues. Firstly, it explores English as a foreign language (EFL) high school teachers’ practices of testing and washback in teaching reading comprehension. Secondly, their perceptions of its washback effects are scrutinized. Content analysis, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews were employed to collect data. Sixty teachers at some high schools in Can Tho City, Vietnam were contacted to answer the questionnaire. In the end, five of them were selected to take part in the interviews. The findings indicated that designing tests has a beneficial impact on reading for EFL learners in the areas of students' passion for reading, decreasing reading boredom, students' interest in reading text content, and students' development of thinking skills. It has an impact on the teachers' time allotment, teaching strategies, and instructional materials. Article visualizations:

European Journal of Alternative Education Studies

Learning strategies are determined as an effective approach to learning ESP. To implement more us... more Learning strategies are determined as an effective approach to learning ESP. To implement more useful learning strategies, it is essential to understand the extent of practice toward learning strategies. The study focused on six (6) learning strategies, including (1) Memorization, (2) Cognitive, (3) Metacognitive, (4) Compensation, (5) Affective, and (6) Social, which were applied in four English skills belonging to English for Tourism courses. A hundred-item questionnaire was administered to investigate the perception and practice of learning strategies and interviews for students and teachers were employed to examine students’ practice of their involvement in learning strategies activities and discover teachers’ observations of students’ practice in their class. The study sample consists of 70 EFL (English as a foreign language) students who have taken the three courses of English for Tourism 1, 2, and 3 in their curriculum. The findings revealed that students had a positive attit...

European Journal of Multilingualism and Translation Studies

Along with the translation industry's increasing global growth, Can Tho University (CTU) hope... more Along with the translation industry's increasing global growth, Can Tho University (CTU) hopes to train highly skilled translators in order to satisfy the needs of society. At Can Tho University, Translation courses are considered a useful subject not only for translation majors but also for all English- majored students. In the fourth academic year, students participate in some translation courses. For English-majored students in general, the Translation courses are aimed not only at providing intensive training on translation skills but also at reinforcing knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. In addition, they provide translation skills by practicing the translation of documents. Through the course, the researchers have noticed that, in addition to progress in their translation skills, language students also encounter some issues in conveying messages from English to Vietnamese and vice versa. This study aims to fill the knowledge gap when it comes to translation mistakes anal...

European Journal of Multilingualism and Translation Studies

Learning strategies play a significant role in the learning process, particularly translation lea... more Learning strategies play a significant role in the learning process, particularly translation learning. Understanding the impact of these strategies on students' translation learning is essential, therefore, to make translation learning strategies more useful in the lesson. The study focused on six (6) translation-focused learning strategies, including (1) memory strategies, (2) cognitive strategies, (3) metacognitive strategies, (4) compensatory strategies, (5) emotional strategies, and (6) social strategies. The author designed a questionnaire of one hundred and thirty-two items to explore students' perceptions of translation learning strategies while studying translation. At the same time, the author interviewed students to confirm the students' frequency of practicing translation learning strategies. The study sample included 90 EFL students (English as a foreign language) from three majors, including High-Quality English Language, English Language, and English Trans...

Course book is one of the most popular teaching materials in every classroom. It plays an importa... more Course book is one of the most popular teaching materials in every classroom. It plays an important role in both English teaching and learning and is considered one of the most efficient tools to examine the education quality. Many researches (Richards R Cunningsworth, 1995; Sheldon,1988; Richards ,2001; O’Neill ,1982) were run to identify the roles of course book for its appropriate use in specific fields of study. To non-English majored students, a course book can help much in developing their four basic skills as well as preparing for examinations in English in the future. Choosing an appropriate course book for the General English course is undoubtedly significant for learners; therefore, it is essential to find out how students evaluate and use the course book for their study. There have been many studies on the evaluation of the course book in the world; however, up to present the researcher finds no study related to the evaluation of the course book LIFE for the General Engli...

European Journal of Alternative Education Studies

This study is to research and collect data on the current situation of teacher development in pub... more This study is to research and collect data on the current situation of teacher development in public preschools in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City, Vietnam, using the survey from the principal (n = 4), vice-principal (n = 8), professional team leader and deputy team (n = 50) from 4 kindergartens, namely Rang Dong Kindergarten, Hoang Yen Kindergarten, June 1 Kindergarten, September 2 Kindergarten, with the three specific objectives: first, to systematize the theoretical basis for the development of PKSs; second, to survey on the current situation of teacher development in PKSs in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City; and finally, to propose some measures to develop teaching staff at PKSs in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City. And there are three research questions as follows (1) What is the current situation of developing teaching staff of public kindergarten schools in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City? (2) What are the suggested measures to develop the teaching staff of public kindergart...

European Journal of Alternative Education Studies

The current paper attempted to perform an action research to measure the effects of using project... more The current paper attempted to perform an action research to measure the effects of using project-based learning (PBL) on students’ writing performance and their perceptions towards the use of PBL in writing lessons. In response to research aims, objectives, and questions, the researcher adopted mixed methods with the use of quantitative and qualitative approaches. While pre-test and post-test were adopted to collect quantitative data to measure whether the use of PBL promoted students’ performance after action research interventions, student questionnaires and teacher interviews were respectively used to collect quantitative and qualitative data of students’ perceptions of using PBL to promote their writing performance. One hundred Grade 9 and four in-charge English students were selected as research samples. Overall, the analysis of research data reveals the following findings: 1) Descriptive statistics and results of sample t-test of test scores indicated that there was a statist...

European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies

This study examined the challenges of learning English-American literature for English majors at ... more This study examined the challenges of learning English-American literature for English majors at Can Tho University (CTU), Vietnam. The study aimed to answer the two questions, which are the difficulties encountered by English majors and their suggested solutions to improve their learning of British-American literature/literary. The target audience was 100 English majors who have studied English-American literary works at CTU, Vietnam. A questionnaire and an interview were used to collect data for this study. A questionnaire was used to support quantitative data while an interview was used for the qualitative method. This study hoped to find out the students’ difficulties, thereby proposing solutions to overcome and improve the quality of students' literary studies. Article visualizations:

European Journal of Alternative Education Studies

Managing English teaching activities for Grade 10 in high schools is one of the most important ta... more Managing English teaching activities for Grade 10 in high schools is one of the most important tasks and activities because it plays a decisive role in the success of teaching and the improvement of teaching quality for Grade 10 in high schools. This activity shows not only the results and quality of the students’ study but also the education management of managers and teaching activities of teachers in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City, Vietnam. The study was conducted at 4 high schools in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City, namely Phan Ngoc Hien High School, Chau Van Liem High School, An Khanh High School, and Nguyen Viet Hong High School. Participants in the survey by questionnaires were school managers (n = 4), English teachers (n = 17) and 10th Graders (n = 456). And the findings showed that to achieve the desired effect in the management of teaching activities of 10th Grade English at a high school in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City, the administrator or the school leader needs ...

European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies

In the teaching process, as a teacher, we need to pay attention to many factors to create an effe... more In the teaching process, as a teacher, we need to pay attention to many factors to create an effective lesson plan such as: target, objective, and environment and nowadays Visual Aids (VS) is one of the most popular tools and dealing with a direct effect on students learning process. Visual Aids can improve students’ long-term memory process. Besides, we do not have a deep understanding of how to use VS in the right way and at which level VS can engage students learning process. In this paper, the researchers focused on summarizing teachers’ perceptions of how to use VS effectively and the hypothesis of these teachers’ experiences to gain a result on how teachers could use VS to engage students in their learning process. The researchers collected the data by using a questionnaire on 44 senior high school teachers, including 20 male teachers and 24 female teachers and 150 students (70 males and 80 females) from Grade 12 and semi-structured interviews (6 teachers and 6 students) were ...

European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies

A mixed-methods design (Creswell & Creswell, 2018) was adopted in this action research to examine... more A mixed-methods design (Creswell & Creswell, 2018) was adopted in this action research to examine the effects of reading strategy instruction with four reading strategies - previewing the text, predictions, text-structure awareness, inferencing - on reading performance of non-English majored freshmen in English preparation classes of a private university in Vietnam. Thirty-six students in pre-intermediate English proficiency level participated in the study. Over six weeks, these students received the four reading strategies instruction explicitly in accordance with CALLA model. Via the explanatory sequential design, a type of mixed methods research involves two-phase data collection (Creswell & Creswell, 2018). The results of the pre-post-tests and 11 closed-ended response items in the paper-based questionnaire were analyzed quantitatively while 6 interviews were analyzed qualitatively to provide further explanations of the quantitative results. The study has found that four reading...

European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies

This study aims to investigate two issues. Firstly, it explores English as a foreign language (EF... more This study aims to investigate two issues. Firstly, it explores English as a foreign language (EFL) high school teachers’ practices of testing and washback in teaching reading comprehension. Secondly, their perceptions of its washback effects are scrutinized. Content analysis, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews were employed to collect data. Sixty teachers at some high schools in Can Tho City, Vietnam were contacted to answer the questionnaire. In the end, five of them were selected to take part in the interviews. The findings indicated that designing tests has a beneficial impact on reading for EFL learners in the areas of students' passion for reading, decreasing reading boredom, students' interest in reading text content, and students' development of thinking skills. It has an impact on the teachers' time allotment, teaching strategies, and instructional materials. Article visualizations:

European Journal of Alternative Education Studies

Learning strategies are determined as an effective approach to learning ESP. To implement more us... more Learning strategies are determined as an effective approach to learning ESP. To implement more useful learning strategies, it is essential to understand the extent of practice toward learning strategies. The study focused on six (6) learning strategies, including (1) Memorization, (2) Cognitive, (3) Metacognitive, (4) Compensation, (5) Affective, and (6) Social, which were applied in four English skills belonging to English for Tourism courses. A hundred-item questionnaire was administered to investigate the perception and practice of learning strategies and interviews for students and teachers were employed to examine students’ practice of their involvement in learning strategies activities and discover teachers’ observations of students’ practice in their class. The study sample consists of 70 EFL (English as a foreign language) students who have taken the three courses of English for Tourism 1, 2, and 3 in their curriculum. The findings revealed that students had a positive attit...

European Journal of Multilingualism and Translation Studies

Along with the translation industry's increasing global growth, Can Tho University (CTU) hope... more Along with the translation industry's increasing global growth, Can Tho University (CTU) hopes to train highly skilled translators in order to satisfy the needs of society. At Can Tho University, Translation courses are considered a useful subject not only for translation majors but also for all English- majored students. In the fourth academic year, students participate in some translation courses. For English-majored students in general, the Translation courses are aimed not only at providing intensive training on translation skills but also at reinforcing knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. In addition, they provide translation skills by practicing the translation of documents. Through the course, the researchers have noticed that, in addition to progress in their translation skills, language students also encounter some issues in conveying messages from English to Vietnamese and vice versa. This study aims to fill the knowledge gap when it comes to translation mistakes anal...

European Journal of Multilingualism and Translation Studies

Learning strategies play a significant role in the learning process, particularly translation lea... more Learning strategies play a significant role in the learning process, particularly translation learning. Understanding the impact of these strategies on students' translation learning is essential, therefore, to make translation learning strategies more useful in the lesson. The study focused on six (6) translation-focused learning strategies, including (1) memory strategies, (2) cognitive strategies, (3) metacognitive strategies, (4) compensatory strategies, (5) emotional strategies, and (6) social strategies. The author designed a questionnaire of one hundred and thirty-two items to explore students' perceptions of translation learning strategies while studying translation. At the same time, the author interviewed students to confirm the students' frequency of practicing translation learning strategies. The study sample included 90 EFL students (English as a foreign language) from three majors, including High-Quality English Language, English Language, and English Trans...

Course book is one of the most popular teaching materials in every classroom. It plays an importa... more Course book is one of the most popular teaching materials in every classroom. It plays an important role in both English teaching and learning and is considered one of the most efficient tools to examine the education quality. Many researches (Richards R Cunningsworth, 1995; Sheldon,1988; Richards ,2001; O’Neill ,1982) were run to identify the roles of course book for its appropriate use in specific fields of study. To non-English majored students, a course book can help much in developing their four basic skills as well as preparing for examinations in English in the future. Choosing an appropriate course book for the General English course is undoubtedly significant for learners; therefore, it is essential to find out how students evaluate and use the course book for their study. There have been many studies on the evaluation of the course book in the world; however, up to present the researcher finds no study related to the evaluation of the course book LIFE for the General Engli...