The Vietnamese government has made remarkable efforts to encourage its academic workforce to conduct scientific research which is meant to enhance the quality of education in light of research-based teaching. Research-based teaching helps teachers increase the interaction between their teaching methods and the impact of these methods on their students’ learning outcomes. However, an existing reality is that publishers and authors from developed countries have dominated academic publishing for years (Vuong, 2019). Lacking knowledge about publication, academic writing, and access to updated publication databases results in low research productivity, especially in the humanities and social sciences in developing countries like Vietnam (Pham & Hayden, 2019). Therefore, we – two English as a foreign language teacher-writers, including a more experienced and a novice researcher in English pedagogy – were stimulated to formulate a two-member research team as a community of practice to enhance the quality of our scientific research and to contribute to closing the gap with those from developed countries (Mak & Pun, 2015).