This study examines cultural representation in the reading sections of an ELT textbook for 6th graders in Vietnam, employing two frameworks by Cortazzi & Jin (1999) and Moran (2001). The findings reveal that while the textbook attempts to cover a range of cultural sources and dimensions, it only skims the surface, with a predominant focus on source culture and a notable underrepresentation of target culture.

The study aims at making a conversation analysis of interruptions in the three rounds of the 2008 U.S. presidential debates, and then giving some theoretical and pedagogical implications for utilizing interruptions in debates as well as other challenging and competitive speech exchanges.

This study is conducted with the hope to make some comparisons between the ways Vietnamese and Filipino people greet each other, especially among those working in companies. Main focus is going to be put on verbal language in the business circumstance. The results of this study may be useful for any Vietnamese student who wants to take a business course in The Philippines; or for the Filipino who want to study, travel or do business in Vietnam.

With a view to addressing the aforementioned gaps, this study aims at investigating how politeness strategies employed by one Vietnamese teacher can be a variable that enhances teacher-student interaction, further, improves L2 students’ learning in EFL classroom.

Aims of the study: Identifying common English compound nouns in information technology and their Vietnamese equivalents; analyzing the translation strategies applied to translate these terms.

Aims of the study: The aim of this study focuses on exploring and discovering Trump‟s Inaugural Speech to how Donald Trump employed power as a means of communication in his inaugural speech.

Aims of the study: The goal of this study is to find out how using pictures in teaching influences young learners‟ learning English vocabulary at an English center; the results of the research will suggest practical tips for English teachers in teaching vocabulary to young learners.

This study, however, focuses more on generally well-received blogs generated by widely accepted beauty writers aged 25-35 (the quality of well-received is defined by the number of followers in each page – averagely 10,000 and above). Additionally, for the collecting data of the study to be conducted thoroughly, entries with the occurrence of code-switch rather than randomly chronological posts are chosen as the primary material for valid and reliable linguistic analysis.

The research concentrates on describing attitudes of teachers of English in Vietnamese universities, with focus on leading universities in foreign languages and international studies. They are the ones with the most influence to current situation and future direction of ELT in Vietnam.

The study aims at finding out new way to teach grammar to students practically, to teach grammar via pedagogical tasks. Thus, as the title suggests, the overarching aim of the study is to investigate the use of tasks in teaching grammar.

Aims of the study: Investigate the extent to which the students‟ learning autonomy can be enhanced through their participation in project work; explore the students‟ evaluations of the projects assigned to them to develop their learning autonomy.

This study aimed at pointing out the similarities and differences in the types of pun used in English and Vietnamese advertisements in men‘s magazines. That aim is achieved by identifying the common types of pun used in advertisements and the devices used in creating these types of pun.

Aims of the study: To point out some factors affecting students‟ motivation in speaking English; to give some suggestions for teachers to stimulate students in speaking English and overcome the difficulties they have to face with in teaching speaking English for grade 10 students.

This study aims at investigating the use of euphemisms of death and sex in English and Vietnamese poems. Specifically, the study seeks to explore how death and sex euphemisms are used in the poems and identify the similarities and differences in their use from a cultural perspective.

The following objectives are set: To investigate the manner in which the conflict and main participants are approached and represented in the media; to explore the journalists underlying ideologies via analyzing the grammatical and lexical features of the news reports, from which revealing a close relationship between ideologies and media language for political purposes.discourse.

This study aims to: Supply readers with basic understanding of speech acts, conversation analysis, adjacency pairs, and preference structure; explore the general patterns of preferred and dispreferred second turns structure used in the first episode of the film Downton Abbey; investigate the linguistic features signaling preferred and dispreferred replies in the episode; provide film critics with practical knowledge of conversations comprising preferred and dispreferred second-turn questions.

This study primarily concentrates on the metaphors used in economic reports. Its aim is to have an insight into how metaphors are correlated to human physical experience and constructed in economic reports. In addition, the analysis of this correlation will set foundation for later categorization of the source domains which are exploited in the metaphors in these economic reports.

This study aims to investigate idioms that carry conceptual metaphor about power based on the theory of Lakoff and Johnson. To go further, this study is done to explore the similarities and the differences between the use of metaphor about power in English and Vietnamese idioms that reflect the culture of each language community.

The research attempts to detect the presence of gender bias as a social phenomenon through pictures in the new English textbook set for Vietnamese primary schools in order to extract the ideology behind their constructions. To be specific, it 1/ examines how different genders are represented via pictures in the new English textbook set for Vietnamese primary schools, and 2/ finds out whether gendered visual representations illustrate gender bias in this textbook set.

This study was conducted with an aim of exploring the relationship between motivation and instructed LLSs use by Vietnamese employees at Honda co, Vietnam, especially the role of motivation types in explaining and predicting the L2 learners‟ LLS use. To fulfil this aim, firstly, this study focused on identifying the extent of the use of trained LLSs of Vietnamese employees at Honda Vietnam in learning English.