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Received: 12/09/19 Revised: 24/09/19 Published: 30/09/19Authors
Vu Van Tuan
, Hanoi Law University
Abstract
The term “World Englishes” has become very common in mass media nowadays. In fact, mastering English empowers people to enter the world without much difficulty. However, Vietnamese government has launched many projects with a hope of turning English in our country into a second language one. This study investigates the attitudes of Vietnamese college students towards English acquisition. The findings would serve as basis for the administrators to reassess their aims of becoming an English-speaking country. The quantitative method was employed in this study, basing on 46 items in the questionnaire which are divided into three aspects, namely the awareness of English with the liability score 0.935, the current English educational policies (0.932), and the purposes for learning English (0.920). The data was collected in four universities in different settings with 305 students answering the Google forms to get the confidential and quick results. The findings found that students had very high attitudes towards the awareness of English and purposes, but very low attitudes towards the current English educational policies. It is necessary for the policy makers to come up with more renovated and revolutionary policies in learning and teaching English at the tertiary level.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.34238/tnu-jst.2020.03.2042
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