Publications

Publication details [#55306]

Nguyen, Hoa Thi Mai. 2011. Primary English language education policy in Vietnam: insights from implementation. Current Issues in Language Planning 12 (2) : 225–249.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | foreign language teaching | language planning | language policy | primary school

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper discusses the implementation of the new 2010 Vietnamese primary English language policy, i.e. teaching English as a compulsory language from Grade 3 onwards, in terms of the policy goals in two Hanoi primary schools (a private and a public one).