STAFF PROFILE - VAN THI NHA TRUC

Department of American-British Culture and Literature Position: Lecturer Email: vanthinhatruc@hcmussh.edu.vn

Academic qualifications

MA (TESOL, USSH-VNUHCM)

MBA (Business Admistration, UBI (Belgium))

BA (English Linguistics & Literature, USSH-VNUHCM)

Further qualifications

VSTEP (Vietnamese Standardized Test of English Proficiency)

Teaching focus

American-British Culture and Literature

Intercultural Communication

Business English

Business Culture

 Research interests

1. Intercultural Communication

2. Culture & Literature

3. University Education Management

 Research Projects

1. A survey of students’ motivations in studying literature at

Faculty of English Linguistics and Literature, USSH-VNUHCM

(MA thesis) (2004)

2. Researching and translating Vietnamese short stories by writers

of HCMC (team member) (2012)

3. Towards a framework for regional integration of the faculty of

English Linguistics and Literature, USSH, Viet Nam National

University, Ho Chi Minh City (team member) (2016)

Publications

1. Embracing life: Contemporary Short Fiction from Southern Viet Nam (team member)

2. English for Linguistics & Literature (vol. 1, 2, 3) (team member)

3. Incorporating culture teaching into EFL classrooms: a survey on English teachers-to-be at EF, USSH, VNU-HCM (in the 2014 international conference proceedings on English Language Teaching)

4. Practicum and internship in the training of interpreting and translation at the Faculty of English Linguistics and Literature, USSH, VNU-HCM (pp. 368-384, 2016) (in the 2016 conference proceedings on translating and interpreting)

5. Enhancing Students' Intercultural Communicative Competence through English Textbooks: A Case Study at EF, USSH, VNUHCM HCM (in the 2016 international conference proceedings on English Language teaching)

6. Innovative tools for developing students’ intercultural communicative competence in EFL classrooms Innovative tools for developing students’ intercultural communicative competence in EFL classrooms (in the 2018 international conference proceedings on English Language teaching)

7. Intercultural language education: Concepts and models (in the 2020 international conference proceedings on English Language teaching)