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Teacher Competence Standardisation Under the Influence of Globalisation: A Study of the National Project 2020 and Its Implications for English Language Teacher Education in Vietnamese Colleges and Universities

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Abstract

Being guided by the operational framework of the three key concepts of teacher competences, teacher standards and teacher competence standardisation, this chapter critically reviews, analyses and evaluates the national Project 2020s process of developing the English Teachers Competency Framework (ETCF) in Vietnam, its outcome and its fitness for purposes, based on which implications are proposed for Vietnamese colleges’ and universities’ ELT education.

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Ngo, M.T. (2019). Teacher Competence Standardisation Under the Influence of Globalisation: A Study of the National Project 2020 and Its Implications for English Language Teacher Education in Vietnamese Colleges and Universities. In: Nguyen, N.T., Tran, L.T. (eds) Reforming Vietnamese Higher Education. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 50. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8918-4_11

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