Abstract
Drawing upon the literature on the history of the language teaching methods focusing on the use of L1 in L2 teaching and the debate surrounding the role of L1 in the L2 classroom in general and in the English classroom in particular, this article presents at its core a study that investigated the attitudes of Vietnamese university teachers toward the use of Vietnamese in English Language Teaching (ELT) in the context of Vietnam. A total of 12 teachers from three universities in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam participated in the study. The data was collected via questionnaire and semi-structured interview. The findings support the judicious use of Vietnamese in some situations in ELT. The results also highlight that the use of Vietnamese is not the same in all ELT classrooms. Instead, it should be adapted to suit the context of a specific classroom.
Highlights
At the Sixth National Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party organized in 1986, Vietnam adopted a socialist-oriented market economy under the State management
A brief review of the literature related to language teaching methods shows that “the role of L1 in L2 teaching” is “one of the most long-standing controversies in the history of language pedagogy” (Stern, 1992, p. 279)
Several studies have been carried out across the world during the past three decades with the aim of www.ccsenet.org/elt demonstrating the positive role of L1 in L2 teaching, finding out teachers and learners’ attitudes toward this issue and identifying specific situations in which L1 should be used in the L2 classroom
Summary
At the Sixth National Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party organized in 1986, Vietnam adopted a socialist-oriented market economy under the State management. Since the early 1990s, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has quickly become popular in Vietnam The use of Vietnamese in the process of teaching English is common in Vietnam These have led to controversial opinions among Vietnamese teachers on the use of Vietnamese in ELT This paper especially discusses the attitudes of Vietnamese university teachers toward the use of Vietnamese in ELT in the context of Vietnam with a view to disclose future perspectives for studies of this issue in the country
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