Speakers
Description
According to Competency 3.3 of Vietnam's Foreign Language Teacher Competency Framework (FLTCF), teachers need to develop student creativity and critical thinking skills through English instruction. Teachers often find it challenging to turn abstract competencies into practical teaching tools and assessment methods within exam-focused classroom settings. The presentation draws on a forthcoming book chapter that examines Competency 3.3’s fundamental principles and provides various classroom exercises to develop these necessary 21st-century skills. The session introduces creative writing, debate, project-based learning, critical media analysis, and rubric-based reflection which are based on both international research and Vietnamese classroom contexts and align with the OECD framework's four cognitive dimensions (inquiring, imagining, doing, and reflecting). This session guides participants through embedding these activities into lesson plans and assessments to establish student-centered classrooms, which reveals students' thought processes while enhancing language comprehension and expanding learning beyond memorization. The session will also explore the application of rubrics for teachers to both support and evaluate cognitive processes while enabling them to adjust their instructional methods despite fixed curriculum restrictions. In this session, teacher educators and both pre-service and in-service teachers will learn practical and research-based methods to sustainably and contextually implement Competency 3.3 within FLTCF. Participants will receive clear conceptual understanding and practical tools to create transformative tasks that enhance English proficiency while building learners’ confidence to think, question, create, and connect.
Keywords: FLTCF (Foreign Language Teacher Competency Framework), Competency 3.3, Creativity, Critical thinking, OECD framework
Biography
Dr./ Ms. Le Thi Hong Duyen is a lecturer of English at the Faculty of English Language Teacher Education, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University (ULIS, VNU). She’s also a Humphrey alumna at Penn State University, USA 2022-2023. Besides, she also actively joins in innovation training activities for educators and students within and outside ULIS, VNU. Her research interests include ESP teaching, teacher training, innovation in education, global citizen education, service learning and community-based education.
Email: hongduyen.yhp@gmail.com
Dr./Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Hang is a lecturer in English at the Faculty of English Language Teacher Education, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University (ULIS, VNU). She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Pennsylvania State University, USA, during the 2022–2023 academic year. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she actively participates in teacher training programs for both educators and students within and beyond ULIS, VNU. Her research interests include ESL education, teacher education, teacher professional development, CLIL instruction, bilingualism, and translanguaging.
Email: nguyenhang1084@gmail.com
