The CEFR as a national language policy in Vietnam: insights from a sociogenetic analysis

@article{Nguyen2020TheCA,
  title={The CEFR as a national language policy in Vietnam: insights from a sociogenetic analysis},
  author={Van Huy Nguyen and M. Hamid},
  journal={Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development},
  year={2020},
  volume={42},
  pages={650 - 662}
}
  • V. H. NguyenM. Hamid
  • Published 17 January 2020
  • Sociology
  • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
ABSTRACT The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has long been considered a global policy in language education. It has been borrowed and adopted by different polities across the world. However, it is still not clear why the CEFR, intended for European usage, has become a ubiquitous tool for overhauling the quality of teaching and learning English in many education contexts. In this paper, we examine the CEFR in Vietnam in order to gain an understanding about the… 
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