I have extensive experience in teaching both Vietnamese and history in different settings, from teaching Vietnamese at the university level to middle school students in Hawai’i, and previously serving as a teacher of history in a high school in Vietnam. My teaching approach focuses on proficiency-oriented language instruction and assessment, emphasizing the development of communicative competence in Vietnamese language learners.
Teaching Experience
| Current | Lecturer of Vietnamese Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego (Onsite) |
| Previous | Instructor of Vietnamese Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literature, UHM Department of Asian and Middle East Studies, UNC (Online) |
| Previous | Instructor of Vietnamese Washington Middle School, Honolulu, Hawai’i Teacher of History Gang Thep High School, Thai Nguyen City, Vietnam |
Instructional Materials
A sample H5P activity for novice-mid and novice-high learners of Vietnamese. Check my notes on this type of activity and how the same text can be used to design multiple tasks. I also wrote a practical article1 on how to leverage the H5P content type Sort the Paragraphs to design diverse instructional materials.
Please check my portfolio/instructional design to view other learning activities, courses, and tests/exams I have designed for my teaching and research.
Teaching Demo
With my students’ permission, I have recorded several in-person lessons which can be viewed up on request. Please email me at hoantn (at) ucsd (dot) edu if you want to learn more.
Teaching Evaluations
Please click the following links for my recent teaching evaluations.
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Remote Synchronous; Intermediate Level of Vietnamese; Fall 2023
- University of California San Diego; In Person; Beginning Level of Vietnamese, Fall 2023
- University of California San Diego; In Person; Intermediate Level of Vietnamese, Fall 2023
- Nguyen, H. (2023). Designing interactive language learning materials with H5P. GUAVA Newsletter, 3, 8-11.
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