Dear Colleagues,

English Tertiary Education in Vietnam (Albright, 2018), published by Routledge, documented the history of Vietnam’s policy objectives, which identify English education as key to improving the quality of its rapidly expanding tertiary institutions and crucial to its larger goal of economic and social modernisation and internationalisation. Bringing together a wide range of Vietnamese and foreign English education scholars and tertiary educational practitioners, this book illustrated the significant progress and challenges in the realisation of Vietnam’s English language policies as they are enacted in the higher education sector.

Vietnamese educational reforms have promoted EFL teaching in the primary to tertiary sectors (T. M. H. Nguyen, 2011). English is taught in schools, universities, and language centres across the country. Yet, since the introduction of English as part of the national curriculum, the quality of English teaching and learning at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels has been “problematic.” The intensification and spread in Vietnamese English education over the past two decades entail both challenges and opportunities for its teaching and learning across the country.

Education Sciences aims to bring together Vietnamese education scholars and practitioners, in a Special Issue dedicated to recent research within the context of primary and secondary school English education. It seeks to present description, research, and theorising in EFL teaching and learning in Vietnamese primary, secondary schools and institutions. This proposed special series is intended for Vietnamese and international policy makers, educational administrators, teacher educators, researchers, scholars, and practitioners, who are concerned with addressing the challenge of providing effective English language teaching and learning. Proposed papers may include critical examinations of current and evolving EFL policies, programs, curricula, pedagogies, assessments, and evaluations. Of interest are proposals that focus on evolving notions of the learner, the teacher, the learning environment within English language teaching and learning; issues of equity and disadvantage; as well as conceptions of teacher identity and professionalism within Vietnam’s rapidly changing educational landscape.

Papers should be received by 1 October 2021. Paper should focus on the context of the topic being addressed, issues and debates that speak to the importance of your contribution, its relevance and significance, for Vietnamese and international EFL teaching and learning; identify the particular questions, and issues or kinds of problems explored, examined and/or investigated. When reporting research, your papers should outline the research questions, sample and/or method of analysis used; the major findings that are pertinent to the argument to you will be making; and the analysis that you offer to explain your findings in order to demonstrate the specific contribution you wish to make (Thomson & Kamler, 2016).

Prof. Dr. James Albright
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Education Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• Vietnam
• primary
• secondary
• English
• literacy
• EFL
• teaching
• TEFL