Second Language Acquisition in EFL Teacher Training in Vietnam

Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has not been taught to EFL teacher trainees in almost all teacher colleges in Vietnam, and thus these teacher trainees seem to lose a chance to better understand the nature of the language classroom or to improve their profession. This book, therefore, recommends a new training component with explicit and systematic instruction in classroom-based input and interaction. This component equips EFL non-native trainees with skills in making input comprehensible to learners and encouraging the learners’ participation in classroom interaction. The training also develops trainees’ ability in classroom discourse analysis for follow-up reflection and feedback. The book suggests that such a training component should be incorporated in the pre-service EFL teacher training for secondary schools. In addition, to promote the effect of this training component on the trainees’ teaching performance and reflection ability, non-native English teacher trainees need to have an average and above level of English proficiency and should be involved in as much actual teaching of complete lessons as possible.