VietTESOL International Convention 2025 welcomes new and contemporary research and practices to unravel the multifaceted nature of integrating sustainability into English language education. Participants will engage in discussions surrounding curriculum design, student management, teaching methods, assessment, professional development, and classroom climates. The convention aims to shape the future of language education, where sustainability and global competence are the ultimate goals of a dynamic and inclusive learning ecosystem. The proposal submissions to the convention are categorized into five strands:
Strand 1: Sustainability in Curricula
● UN Sustainability Development Goals in Lessons
● English as a Medium of Education
● Eco-Literacy
● Materials Development
● Sustainability Competency Assessment
● Systems Thinking
● Critical Thinking
● Global Citizenship
Strand 2: Technology and Sustainability
● Online Teaching and Learning
● Blended Learning
● Distance Education
● Technologies and AI-Powered Technologies
● Technology and Learner Autonomy Development
● Technology-Enhanced Testing and Assessment
● Mobile-Assisted Language Learning
Strand 3: Language Pedagogy
● Language Teaching
● ESP, EMI, CLIL, and EME
● Testing and Assessment
● Curriculum Development
● Classroom Management
● Task and Project-Based Language Teaching (TBLT/PBLT)
● Intercultural Competence in Language Teaching and Learning
● Learning Motivation, Engagement, Learner Autonomy, and Learner Agency
● Policies on Language Teaching and Learning
Strand 4: Language and Linguistics
● English Linguistics and Educational Linguistics Teaching
● Global Englishes
● Translanguaging
● Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
● Corpus Linguistics
● Computational Linguistics
● Translation and Interpretation
Strand 5: Professional Development
● In-service Teacher Education
● Teacher Training for the Digital Age
● Professional Development
● Communities of Practice (CoP)
● Practical Teaching Contemplation
● Autonomy, Teacher Identity, and Teacher Agency
It is important to observe the following guidelines before submitting your abstracts.
1. DETAILS OF PRESENTERS
Important details of the presenters such as full name, email address, and institution must be correctly entered into the submission system. The Convention only uses these details to communicate with the presenters. The presenters should also check their spam mail folder to ensure that the emails from the Convention are not missed. The presenters cannot appoint another one to deliver their presentations on their behalf. Only up to two proposal submissions are accepted by each author.
2. TITLE OF PRESENTATION
The title must:
- not exceed 15 words (each part of a slashed or hyphenated word counts as one word)
- not include presenter’s names, institutions, or titles of their published works
- capitalize all verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns
- not capitalize conjunctions, articles, and prepositions of fewer than four letters
- capitalize both terms of hyphenated compounds and the first word after a colon.
3. TYPES AND LENGTH OF A PRESENTATION
Keynote Speech (50 minutes): This is a plenary session. It aims to set out the convention scope, provide valuable insights, and create a sense of community among attendees. Only invited scholars can make submissions to this presentation type. Each keynote speech is delivered in 50 minutes, including 10 minutes for the Question and Answer section (Q&A).
Featured Speech (50 minutes): This is a major parallel session. It aims to address a particular issue closely relevant to the theme of the convention. Only invited scholars can make submissions to this presentation type. Each featured speech is delivered in 50 minutes, including 15 minutes for Q&A.
Oral Presentation (30 minutes): This is a parallel session, contributed by various scholars, researchers, and practitioners. It can be research-oriented, discussing the theoretical perspectives, methodological paradigms, and findings of a study. It can also be practice-oriented, discussing a pedagogical practice or a teaching approach. Each oral presentation is delivered in 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for Q&A.
Workshop (60 minutes): This is a parallel session, contributed by various scholars, researchers, and practitioners. It aims to demonstrate a teaching initiative or innovation for about 15 minutes before delivering a hand-on activity (activities) that can engage the participants to share, discuss, and produce some specific output. The activities might be a discussion about a heated topic, a simulation, a lesson plan designing attempt, a material development technique, a task design strategy, an action plan drafting process, or alike.
Poster (45 minutes): This is a parallel session conducted in the poster presentation area. It aims to serve as an important and interactive forum for sharing professional ideas and for receiving feedback. It is often contributed by practitioners and early-career researchers. A poster presentation is a visually explanatory exhibit that allows for short, informal discussions between the presenter(s) and participants. The poster presentation session is flexibly delivered in 45 minutes, depending on the audience.
Technology Fair (45 minutes per PC): This is a parallel session conducted in a designated technology-equipped area. It can be delivered at any time during the convention to cater to the diverse needs of the audience about classroom-based learning, mobile learning, or self- access learning. Each participant or group of participants is expected to experience a demonstration session up to 45 minutes only. The presenters are stationed in the computer lab space and the audience will ask questions and get hands-on experiences.
Doctoral Forum Presentation (30 minutes): This is a specific group of interactive presentations for research students to share and discuss their own research ideas and projects with each other and with experienced educators and senior researchers. The presenters are expected to be postgraduate students currently or have completed their postgraduate programs within 6 months. Each presentation is delivered in 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for Q&A.
Symposium (90 minutes): This is a major parallel session, aiming at bringing together three engaging oral presentations on the same topic, offering a comprehensive exploration of both theoretical and practical perspectives. It is expected that each symposium will facilitate a collaborative platform for critical discussions, knowledge exchange, and reflections on a specific focus of research. This is particularly suitable for Special Interest Groups or any team of collaborative researchers and and practitioners who would like to present different but interrelated pieces of their work together. All members of the symposium team should work together and nominate one coordinator. The submission of each symposium includes two parts, namely (1) the symposium abstract and (2) the individual paper abstracts. The three individual paper abstracts need to be submitted first, and the symposium abstract needs to be submitted after. The symposium abstract must include the three ID numbers of the individual papers.
British Council Signature Series:
VietCALL Signature Series: This is dedicated to the contributions from members of VietCALL, Vietnamese Association of Computer-Mediated Language Learning, under the Vietnam Linguistics Society, and all teachers, researchers, postgraduate students, and tech-savvy professionals interested in educational technology. The submissions must focus mainly on the integration of technology, particularly AI-powered tools, into language teaching and learning. The submissions can be of types as indicated in the general call. For any queries, please contact Dr. Bao Kham (baokham@hueuni.edu.vn) or Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan Huong (lanhuongnckh@gmail.com).
4. ABSTRACT
Accepted abstracts are included in the Convention Book. They must accurately reflect the content of the presentations. Each abstract must be between 150-250 words. The abstract must
- accurately reflect what the presentation is to be about
- not exceed 250 words
- not include presenters’ names, institutions, or published works
- not include acronym(s) or abbreviation(s) except the following:
- L1 (First Language)
- L2 (Second Language)
- CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning)
- CBI (Content-based Instruction)
- EAP (English for Academic Purposes)
- EFL (English as a Foreign Language)
- EL (English Learner)
- ELL (English Language Learner)
- ELT (English Language Teaching)
- ESL (English as a Second Language)
- ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
- ESP (English for Specific Purposes)
- IEP (Intensive English Program)
- NNEST (Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL)
- SLA (Second Language Acquisition)
- TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
- TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)
5. EQUIPMENT
When submitting the proposals, the authors must include an equipment request if necessary. This will facilitate the process of facility preparation for their presentations.
Please submit your abstracts here. Do not forget to use the abstract evaluation criteria here for your information, and keep an eye on the submission deadline here.
