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Description
In today’s society when great emphasis is placed on enhancing school children’s English competence throughout Vietnam, learners are offered more intensive English courses including an advanced English program in which maths and science are taught in English. This paper focuses only on secondary school students in Hanoi who follow such an English program and pay particular attention to how they learn maths in English. Undoubtedly, one of the challenges for non-native learners of English is how to acquire a large number of maths terminologies and concepts in order to better understand maths lectures in English and to build up their confidence in discussing maths problems in English. Therefore, a number of useful activities are suggested in this paper with a view to enhancing Hanoi secondary school students’acquisition of maths vocabulary. Examples of these activities include vocabulary online games such as word walls, quizzes, quizlet, crosswords and some interactive activities during the class hours such as word race and matching.
Biography
Bich Dao Vu Thi, M.A is currently working as an English instructor at the Faculty of English Language and Culture, University of Languages and International Studies-Vietnam National University, Hanoi. She has been delivering a number of lectures on both English for specific purposes and General English for young learners and adults. Her research interests include English language teaching methodology, English for specific purposes, applied linguistics and crosscultural communication.
For further discussion, she can be reached at twinkling1505@gmail.com.
