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Academic qualifications
PhD (Education, University of Nottingtham - UK)
MA (Education, University of Queensland, Australia)
BA (English Linguistics and Literature, University of Social Sciences and Humanities- Ho Chi Minh City National University
Further qualifications
Teaching focus
TESOL:
Postgraduate teaching: Assessment of ESL and bilingual students, Language
assessment, Advanced teaching methodology, Research methods
Undergraduate teaching: Teaching methodology, Teaching practice 1, Teaching practice 2, Classroom-based assessment, Materials development in language teaching
Research interests
TESOL
Curriculum, teaching and learning in higher education
Assessment in higher education
Research Projects
- Innovative assessment practices in the social sciences and humanities undergraduate programs in the US and implications for change in Vietnam (funded by the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Programme) in 2021.
- Lifelong learning and quality assessment in higher education in Japan and Vietnam: A comparative case study (funded by Japan Foundation) in 2018-2019.
- Communicative English for tourism purposes: Training the local youths to promote places and products of interest in Vietnam: Training of the trainers (A joint research with researchers from the International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.)
- Exploring the formation of lifelong learners’ capabilities for employability and human development in Vietnamese higher education (Postdoctoral project funded by University oft he Free State, South Africa)
Publications
In international journals:
- Nguyen, T.H.T & Walker, M. (2016) Sustainable assessment for lifelong learning, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 41(1): 97-111, DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2014.985632
- Nguyen, T.H.T & Walker, M. (2015) ‘Capabilities-friendly’ assessment for quality learning, South African Journal of Higher Education, 29(4): 244–260
At international conferences:
- Nguyen, T.H.T (2019) English Language Education in Vietnam and the Philiipines: A1 comparative study (Keynote lecture), The 5th International Conference on Philippines and Asian studies “Language, culture, and media”, De La Salle Lipa, Batangas, May 9-11, 2019.
- Nguyen, T.H.T. (2018) Assessing student learning in higher education: How East meets West, Engaging with Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City and Phan Thiet City, December 15th-21th.
- Nguyen, T.H.T. (2018) Undergraduate curriculum benchmark: A case study of the Faculty of English, USSH, Ho Chi Minh City, The International conference on ELT 2018: ELT for Innovation and Integration, Faculty of English Linguistics and Literature, USSH, Ho Chi
Minh City, Vietnam, November 23rd-24th, 2018
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