An Investigation of Teacher Autonomy at Two Universities in Vietnam

Abstract

The study was conducted at two universities in Vietnam; namely Dong A University in Da Nang city and Dai Nam University in Hanoi aiming to investigate the teacher autonomy in teaching English to English majored students and non-English majored students and to see if the level of autonomy of the teacher differs with different types of learners. The study was carried out with 137 students which consist of 54 English majored and 83 non-English majored students. The research employs quantitative descriptive study design, adapting the Learning Climate Questionnaire (LCQ) (Núñez et al., 2012). The findings of the study indicated that the students’ perception towards their teachers’ autonomy was at medium level (M=2.6). The descriptive statistics also indicated that the level of autonomy was significantly different between majored and non-majored students; M=3.1 and M=2.3 respectively. In detail, the means of the level of autonomy of the teachers who teach English majored students is higher than those of non- English majored students.