Two major UK-based book publishers have recently provided a short English teaching course to elementary school teachers and specialists from district-level education boards in Ho Chi Minh City.
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More than 350 grade-1 English teachers and education specialists from 24 city districts attended a three-day teacher training workshop last week jointly organized by Pearson, Oxford University Press, and the local Department of Education and Training.
This is part of the city’s efforts to implement a national project for better teaching the English language to Vietnamese students from now until 2020.
At the workshop, Pearson introduced “Gogo Loves English†and “Goodbye Germsâ€, two of its elementary courses, to all the course takers in preparation for the so-called “Passion for Reading†session slated for English teaching at local elementary schools in this 2012-13 academic year.
“I think the training is very helpful for all of us,†said Thuy, with a district’s education board. “I like the way the trainer carried out the warm-up activities and the way she taught pronunciationâ€,
Both based in the UK, Pearson and Oxford are two of the world’s leading publishers of English textbooks.