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ABSTRACT

Received 21 Jun 2020
Revised 08 Aug 2020

Accepted 30 Nov 2020

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been recently implemented as a potential language teaching method for language education in Vietnam. However, research into the training for teachers on the application of TBLT has remained scarce. This study, therefore, aims to examine how Vietnamese in-service teachers implement the insights from a one-shot training program on TBLT in their classroom-based teaching practices. Three in-service teachers at a university in Vietnam participated. Data were collected through a video-taped classroom observation activity. The findings indicate that the teachers on the whole were unable to transfer the theoretical knowledge of TBLT principles that they had built up during the training program into their actual teaching practices. In addition, the teachers failed to perform TBLT teaching roles throughout the lesson. Accordingly, this study suggests pedagogical implications and insights with regard to the issue of teacher training on TBLT in the context of language education in Vietnam.

Keywords

Classroom practice, in-service teacher training, Task-based language teaching

Cited as: Thi, N.A. and Yen, P.H., 2020. Impacts of a one-shot training program for in-service teachers on the application of Task-based Language Teaching. Can Tho University Journal of Science. 12(3): 38-46.