The Role of English in Vietnam’s Foreign Language Policy: A Brief History

Do Huy THINH, Vietnamese TESOL Association BACKGROUND The history of Vietnam, as Branigin (1994) puts it, is “a saga of recurrent strife, turmoil, invasion, occupation and hardship” (p. A22). For a long time, Vietnam did not have its own language. Foreign interventions and the subsequent use of foreign languages as the national or official language …

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