The changing face of language teaching Symposium

Creating job-ready graduates in Vietnamese and Australian university programs

4 August 2023 | 10:30am - 5pm | Forgan Smith Building (1), Room E215 & Online via Zoom

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Program

All session will be held at Forgan Smith Building (1), Room E215 and online via Zoom unless stated otherwise. More detailed program will be available closer to the date.

10:30–10:45am

Wecome


10:45am–12:45pm

Professional Standards in CALL Teacher Training in Vietnam: Towards an Ecological Approach to CALL Integration -  presented by Paul Moore (UQ), Hong Giang Nguyen (Hanoi) and Quang Vinh Nguyen (Hanoi) (LIVE)

English as a medium of instruction in Vietnamese universities: the perspective of language policy and planning - presented by Nguyen Van Huy (Hue) (ONLINE)

EFL teachers’ perceptions of interactional competence assessment via videoconferencing-based speaking tests at a Vietnamese university - presented by Giang Ngoc Huong Ng (Hanoi), Trung Quang Doan (Hanoi), & Noriko Iwashita (UQ) (HYBRID)

Exploring the sources of VSTEP test anxiety of Vietnamese EFL students - presented by Thuy Nguyen (Hue) (ONLINE)


12:45–2pm

Lunch at Gordon Greenwood Building (32), Level 4 foyer


2 – 4pm

Writing about different topics: Quantitative measures of lexical richness and Vietnamese EFL students’ experiences - presented by Nguyen Thi Bao Trang (Hue)  (ONLINE)

Walking the walk? Misalignment between perceptions and practice for corpus literacy and corpus-based language pedagogy - presented by Peter Crosthwaite (UQ), Tieu-Thuy Chung (Tra Vinh) Cam Cao Thi Hong (Tra Vinh)  & Carolina Tavares De Carvalho (UQ/Sao Paulo State) (LIVE)

Intercultural competence development in English language curricula at tertiary level in Vietnam - presented by Ngan Giang Dang (Hanoi) and Thuy-Anh Truong (Hanoi) (ONLINE)

University language education for job-ready graduates: Japanese language, curriculum reform and individual trajectories in Vietnam and Australia - presented by Kayoko Hashimoto (UQ), Nguyen Thi Huong Tra (Hue) and Van Nghiem Hong (Hanoi) (LIVE)


4 - 4.10pm

Break


4.10 – 4:40pm

Round table and wrap up 

Paper presenters and Discussant Lourdes Ortega


4:45pm

5pm

Closing

Drinks at Saint Lucy (UQ campus)