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Collaboration—uniquely calls on students, teachers, schools, towns, and urban hubs to share and communicate their growing English language skills and ideas about sustainable development.
Inter-Culturalism can be expressed within a country and across many countries. It depends on clear communication, which in turn helps to ensure that development is inclusive and sustainable. For example,
each member state of ASEAN must appreciate the assets and needs of groups within each country and across ten neighboring countries, as well as Southeast Asia’s interface with East Asia and the world.
Communicative goals in Second Language Acquisition focus on context, content, tasks, and norms. Using “i + 1 + 1” methods, the context of Bending Bamboo is the country of Vietnam
and the Mekong River Region. Both are undergoing immense change— climate, economic, urbanization,
and modernization. There must be content that draws on current issues and bears on the lives of Vietnamese teenagers. They are far more likely
to communicate about their context, interests, ambitions, anxieties, and challenges than to “study a foreign language” to pass an exam. Mindful of this context, Bending Bamboo draws all of its materials from the Delta and Vietnam. Further still, it assigns tasks to students to apply their English
and development learning to their
surrounding communities. Finally, it is a normative goal to become “bilingual with purpose to grow the future of Vietnam.”
Competence grows as teachers, students, families and society use their English and development knowledge within and beyond classrooms. Since 1070, and the founding of the Temple of Literature, Vietnam has nurtured a culture of exams. Bending Bamboo will help students earn strong exit/entrance exam marks, but it will also measure Receptive, Productive, and Integrative skill competency through a range of assessments, including quantitative and qualitative, and summative and formative metrics, as explained in the “Flow of Each Chapter” section below.
Confidence emerges as Bending Bamboo teachers nurture professional and vocational aptitude to imagine, design, and deliver a linguistic- development text. This uniquely combines teacher and student capacity building. It links native, non-native and Vietnamese users of English, rural and urban schools, and pan-ASEAN youth through contemporary interests and concerns.
Collaboration is evident as rural
and urban schools, public systems and private centers, teachers from elementary to secondary education, scientists and poets, agricultural and industrial workers, and domestic and international peers begin to
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regularly connect in pursuit of quality education and development solutions.
Teacher Repository and Advanced Courses on linguistic-development theory, approaches, methods, global classroom techniques, and tools
are made available to participating Bending Bamboo schools and teachers. The Repository is a shared effort of Vietnamese teachers.
It will curate and update “best practice” lesson plans compiled
by Bending Bamboo teachers and education partners. The Advanced Courses will be introduced through Flipbooks (brief e-books) written
by collaborating Vietnamese and American professors. The subjects delve into applied linguistics, sustainable development, and ecosystem resilience--all subjects pertaining to the future growth and dynamism of Vietnam. A Bending Bamboo website accompanies the grades 10-12 text and hosts both the Repository and Flipbooks.
12 INTRODUCTION
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