HCM CITY — Their huge workload, limited teaching hours and large numbers of students in classes prevent teachers from improving their classroom-based assessment practices, considered vital to improving English teaching, an expert has said. Dr Vũ Thị Phương Anh, dean of Bình Dương University’s foreign languages faculty, said efforts to reform the quality of English teaching in the country have thus been in vain. She was speaking at Việt Nam’s first Language Assessment Symposium held today at the Southeast Asian Ministers Of Education Organization Regional Training Center (SEAMEO RETRAC) in HCM City. It also drives positive change as teachers focus on teaching real communicative skills rather than just teaching for tests. The symposium was organised by the British Council, the National Foreign Languages Project 2020 and SEAMEO RETRAC, bringing together UK and Vietnamese testing and assessment experts to exchange information and keep abreast of developments in English teaching, learning and assessment.—VNS

Source: Viet Nam News May 23, 2017 12:11 UTC