1. Introduction
1as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.
Furthermore, it is estimated that the number of
native English speakers is approximately 400
In our globalized world, being able to
million to 500 million; more than one billion
speak one or more foreign languages is a
people are believed to speak some forms of
prerequisite, as employers on a national as
English.
well as on an international scale pay attention
to the foreign language skills of their future
Campbell (1996) claimed that although
employees (Kluitmann, 2008), focusing
the numbers vary, it is widely accepted that,
mostly on English.
hundreds of millions of people around the
world speak English, whether as a native,
Therefore, English nowadays has been
second or foreign language. English, in some
gaining an important position in many
forms, has become the native or unofficial
countries all over the world. English is not
language of a majority of the countries around
only a means but also an important key to gain
the world today including India, Singapore,
access to the latest scientific and technological
Malaysia and Vietnam.
achievements for developing countries such
In Vietnam, the Vietnamese government
has identified the urgent socio-political,
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commercial and educational need for
and English language lecturers as important
Vietnamese people to be able to better
groups of stakeholders were collected
( Jaturapitakkul, 2013; Kuntasal, 2001; Samad,
communicate in English. In line with this
Rahman, & Yahya, 2008). The results might
aspiration, all Vietnamese tertiary institutions
shed some lights on English language testing
have accepted English as a compulsory
subject as well as medium of instruction for
and could primarily inform ways to improve
current in-house English language test.
academic purposes. This development has
given rise to the need to teach and measure
students’ command of English at institutional
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