"English-speakingpeopleconstitut eabou ton etenth
oftheworld'spopulation,"whichincludespeoplesfro m
greatnations:Th eUnite dKingdom,th eUnite dStates,
Australia,Canada,.oEnglish,o nth eothe rhand,i s
widelystudie doutsid eth ecountrie so fit suseasasecon d
languagesuc hasi nTaiwan,Japan,th ePhilippines,Thailand,
an dMalaysia,jus ttomentionafew.
I nVietnamEnglishi sbecomingpopulardu et ohistorical,
political,an dsocia levents.I ti sarequiredsubjec ti n
secondaryeducation.Teacherso fEnglishi npubli chigh
schoolsarefairlywelltrained:The yhavethreeyears
(no wfou ryears)o fstud yi nth eDepartmen to fEnglisha t
theFacultyo fPedagogyi nbot hHuean dSaigo nUniversities,
The yar etaughtphilology,phonology,morphology,an dsynta x
besidesthecultura lcourses--history,civilization,an d
literature--ofth eEnglish-speakingcountries:Th eUnite d
Kingdoman dth eUnite dStates.Allthes ecourse sar egive n
byprofessorswhoar enativespeaker so fEnglish,Neverthe-lessthe yar eno tquiteprofessionally^'ualifie daccording
-'-Alber tC .Baugh,AHistoryo fth eEng:lis hLangnage,
2n ded.(Ne wYork,l^i3T,P o4.
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tothestandardsse tforthbyRobertLado;i nanycase,
theyarebetterprovidedwithalinguisticbackgroundthan
agoo dmanyothe rteachers.Ye tthenumbero fgraduates
fromtheFacultyo fPedagogyan dtheFacult yo fLetters
(Facult edesLettres)areno tenoug hfo rth etremendously
increasingnumbero fstudents.Therefor eanyonewhoknows
Englisho ronc elive di na nEnglish-speakingcountry,
whethero rno theha danycours ei ntheteachingo flan-guage,ca ngiv eEnglishlessons.Th eVietnameseAmerican
Associationi nSaigonan dHue,- ^seem st oprovid eafairly
goo dEnglishlearningdu et othefac ttha tcoursesar e
conductedbyAmericans.Thes eAmericans,however,ar e
notreallyproperlyqualifie dteacherssinc ei ti sno t
enoughfo rateacher"t ospea kalanguag et obequalified
toteachit,,•< ,Hemus tals oknowth elinguisti cfacts
ofthelanguageo fth estudent si norde rt ounderstand
theparticularproblemsthe ywillhavei nlearningthe
targetlanguage,"^G ,C,Frie sfirml ystates:"Th e
nativespeake ro falanguage,unlesshehasbeenspeciall y
trainedtoanalysehisow nlanguag eprocesses,willb e
