Projects

Current Projects ▼

• VietTBLT Professional Learning Community (PLC 2026)

The VietTBLT Professional Learning Community 2026 (PLC26) represents the second phase of a multi-year initiative to advance Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) in Vietnamese language education through collaborative curriculum development, teacher capacity building, and research-informed practice. Building on the progress made in 2025, the 2026 cycle focuses on three major objectives: (1) expanding the instructional cohort, (2) designing and testing a three-week task-based curriculum at the prototype level, and (3) implementing the curriculum in Fall 2026 followed by dissemination at the First VietTBLT Symposium, held online in early December.

• The 1st VietTBLT Symposium (Planned December 2026)

• VietTBLT Professional Learning Community (PLC 2025)

The VietTBLT Professional Learning Community (PLC) 2025 is a year-long professional development initiative designed to support Vietnamese language instructors in implementing task-based language teaching (TBLT) effectively. This year-long program will foster a supportive network of educators through monthly meetings, workshops, and discussions with TBLT experts. Participants will engage in a structured cycle of selecting, developing, and evaluating task-based materials, culminating in a symposium and/or a collaborative micro-task report by the end of the year. This project is part of the VietTBLT Initiative, officially launched by ACH in Jan 2025, which promotes TBLT through research, pedagogy, and community-building.  

Key Activities:

• Monthly Meetings (Cycle #1/Completed; Cycle #2/Completed;Cycle #3)

• VietTBLT Public Workshop Series with featured Speakers (Completed)

• Follow-up presentations and publications (ongoing)

Key Outcomes:

• 01 strong, close-knit Community of Practice (n=7)

• 05 set of task-based materials as OERs

• 01 template for PD in TBLT

• 03 sets of webinar recordings & resources

• 01 professional publication

Past Projects ▼

• A Collaborative Project: Vietnamese Textbook For Intermediate Level. 

This OER Project received a grant from The Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and housed in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA) at Michigan State University. The project involved creating an open intermediate-level textbook for the Vietnamese language "Intermediate Vietnamese: A Task-based Journey" and other strategic collaborations. For information about the project and open task-based materials, please visit this site https://sites.google.com/view/vietoer