This article aims to investigate the impact of personal background characteristics on the socialization with academic aspects of ethnic minority students in higher education institutions in Ho Chi Minh City. A quantitative method was used to measure the extent of the impact of these elements.

The study aims to explore the difficulties that the 10th grade ethnic minority students at Van hoa I High School have encountered when practicing English speaking skills and factors that cause these difficulties. Besides, it also seeks to find out the suggested solutions to improve the students’ speaking skills.

Objectives of the thesis: Based on the results of the survey on the situation of Vietnamese language teaching and lexical competence of students in Ia Grai - Gia Lai, the thesis is carried out with the purpose of proposing solutions to develop the lexical competence of Jrai students (through teaching topics, practice exercises and other supportive measures), thereby improving the quality of learning Vietnamese language and developing Vietnamese communication competence for Jrai ethnic minority students.