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MACMILLAN EDUCATION is a part of the international publishing group Springer Nature, which is a leading UK education publisher in the world. Macmillan Education publishes publications and provides digital and online learning solutions to support teachers, researchers, students and educators around the world. Macmillan Education’s product lines include: Language Learning, Schools Curriculum and specialized research materials for college and university (Higher Education). On June 24, 2022, Hoa Sen University and Macmillan Education jointly signed a cooperation contract on mutual support in the project of using Macmillan Education’s publications for operating programs at Hoa Sen University, with the following basic contents:...

The lecturers of the English Language Studies (ELS) have recently attended the workshop “Can Critical Thinking be taught?” under the guidance of Dr. Le Dao Thanh Binh An. This is the first workshop in a series of professional seminars of ELS lecturers that can take place offline since the Covid-19 pandemic. The workshop took place with the enthusiastic attendance of lecturers in charge of different ELS subject domains. There have been invaluable sharings of insights and experiences, as well as concerns about teaching methodologies and assessment approaches when embedding this important skill in both the programme and courses During the workshop, Dr.  Binh An...

On Tuesday 19/04/2022, a signing event of the MOU between Hoa Sen University and IIG Vietnam of the Faculty of Languages – International Cultures took place. The signing aims to create opportunities for students of Hoa Sen University to participate in the international language certification exam – TOEIC to complete the requirements of the training program. Let’s review the memories of this event through the photos below

In order to promote and develop cooperation in improving the quality of English education, training and testing, on April 21, 2022, Hoa Sen University signed a memorandum of cooperation with Pearson Education, the world’s leading education group with more than 20,000 employees operating in more than 70 countries with the mission of supporting people to make progress in life through learning. Pearson provides resources, learning materials, educational technology, testing and a certificate system to help learners around the world achieve higher goals and awaken their full potential. The two sides wish to research and cooperate and implement the following basic...

Abstract: As second language teachers, we often think teaching grammar is necessary and we tend to overlook the crucial need for meaningful exposure in language learning. With the help of one particular study (Hong, 2005), I will show that even the best type of explicit grammar instruction to teach the use of articles in English did not result in the desired effect at all. In fact, there is very little to no empirical evidence that teaching grammar leads to effective use of a particular item. On the other hand, we do know that the amount of exposure to and meaningful...

Colloquium No.5, held on Dec 17, 2015 Topic: “Phenomenography: A Qualitative research approach to investigating different understandings of reality” Presenter: Dr. Dang Thi Ngoc Lan – from Vietnamese-German University Abstract: In this presentation, phenomenography, a new qualitative research approach which was developed by a research group in the Department of Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1981, will be introduced. Aims and examples of phenomenographic research will be given. Then, its similarities and differences from phenomenology will be elaborated, and its methods and data analysis will be presented. Finally, some criticisms of this approach will be brought into discussion.