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Dr. Tran Trong Nghia

Vietnamese, Education Officer

Office 28, 3rd floor, Language Centre / University Technology Hub (UTH) building trong.tran@ubd.edu.bn +673 2463001

Academic Backgrounds


  • PhD. in Linguistics, USSH – VNU Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2016)

  • Master in Linguistics and literature, USSH – VNU Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2011)

  • Bachelor in English language teaching, Vietnam National University, Ha Noi (2004)

Teaching Areas


  • Vietnamese Language

Research Areas


  • Vietnamese Studies
  • Vietnamese Language Teaching

Advanced Vietnamese –  Listening textbook, Publisher: VNUHCM Press, 2023. ISBN 978-604-73-9529-3

Vietnamese Reading – Writing A1 textbook, 2019. Busan University of Foreign Studies, South Korea, ISBN 979-11-961373-2-8.

Vietnamese Reading – Writing A2 textbook, 2020. Busan University of Foreign Studies, South Korea, ISBN 979-11-952305-2-5.

Teaching Vietnamese listening comprehension with interactive perspective,  Name of Conference: Vietnam in the contemporary world: Transformation and adaptation, The 6th International Conference on Vietnamese Studies, Publisher: VNUHCM Press, 2023. ISBN: 978-604-479-011-4

Beyond English: Other options for HE internationalisation, University World News (UWN), 2023. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20230901105532511

Navigating intra-Asian mobility through language teaching, University World News (UWN), 2023. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20230906102948770

About Humor in Language, Journal of Saigon University, vol. 13, 2013. pp. 22-27. ISSN: 1859-3208.

Some basic elements in using language to make humor, Language and Life, vol. 7, 2013, pp. 21 – 24. ISSN: 0868-3409

Reasoning in satirical argumentation, Language and Life, vol. 12, 2013, pp. 48 – 52. ISSN: 0868-3409

North-South Vietnamese dialect words and teaching for foreign students, Ho Chi Minh City National University Publishing House,  2016.  ISBN: 978-604-73-3750-7

Some principles of decoding satirical arguments, Ho Chi Minh City National University Publishing House,  2016.  ISBN: 978-604-73-3751-4

Applying interactive approach  in  teaching Vietnamese language  at Busan University of Foreign Studies, South Korea, Journal of Vietnamese Studies Review – 한국베트남학회, South Korea, vol. 14, 2016, pp. 73-88, ISSN: 2005-5331

Designing Vietnamese exercises for foreigners in the current period, Journal of Vietnamese Studies Review – 한국베트남학회, South Korea, vol. 15, 2017, pp. 147-167, ISSN: 2005-5331

Discussion about the difficult levels in Vietnamese exercises for foreigners)”, Ho Chi Minh City National University Publishing House,  2018.  ISBN: 978-604-73-6155-7

Vietnamese text difficulty and teaching Vietnamese for foreigners, Ho Chi Minh City National University Publishing House,  2019. ISBN: 978-604-73-7135-8

Conception of foreign language competence and the way to develop Vietnamese language competence for foreign students, Ho Chi Minh City National University Publishing House,  2020, ISBN: 978-604-73-8473-0