Education Ministry wants English to be Vietnam's second languageVietNamNet Bridge - Building a roadmap to have English as the second language in Vietnam is one of the nine tasks the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has set on the threshold of the 2016-2017 academic year. 90 percent of students had less than a five score in English from the 2016 national high-school finals and only 8.8 percent students got higher than the average mark. Analysts agree with the goal but doubt it is attainable.“It will be a long and thorny path to make English used commonly in Vietnam. “While listening and communication skills are very important, we mostly spend time on teaching grammar. But when they enter secondary school, they have to repeat lessons from the very beginning.

Source: VietNamNet News September 08, 2016 00:45 UTC