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GUAVA e-Newsletter

February 2024
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Announcements

  • Bich-Ngoc Turner will be presenting her paper titled "From 'Tố Tâm' to "Thiên Sứ": The Vietnamese novellas and Narratives of Individual and Intellectual Tragedies" at the AAS 2024 Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington. Her paper is part of a panel called "The Novellas in Modern Asian Culture". More info here
  • An Sakach and her team will be presenting their paper titled "A Collaborative Venture in Crafting An Open, Task-Based Vietnamese Textbook" at the fourth annual Language OER Conference by the Open Language Resource Center at the University of Kansas.
  • Chung Nguyen shared her insights about how the Vietnamese language has become a bridge to connect overseas Vietnamese with the homeland in the news report by Vietnam Plus (Wednesday, January 31, 2024)

Workshops & Conferences

GUAVA in Blog

Celebrating Excellence: GUAVA President Chung Nguyen Named 2026 Vietnamese Language Ambassador Abroad

The Group of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese in America (GUAVA) is delighted to share groundbreaking news with our community of educators, scholars, and language advocates worldwide. Our current GUAVA President, Ms. Chung Nguyen—Director and Senior Lecturer of the Vietnamese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University—has been officially named a 2026 …
Celebrating Excellence: GUAVA President Chung Nguyen Named 2026 Vietnamese Language Ambassador Abroad

Elevate Your Teaching: Join VietTBLT’s 2026 Public Workshop Series on Developing Task-Based Curricula

Elevate Your Teaching: Join VietTBLT’s 2026 Public Workshop Series on Developing Task-Based Curricula
As educators, we are constantly seeking ways to make language learning more meaningful, engaging, and directly applicable to the real world. Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) offers a powerful framework to achieve this, moving beyond mechanical drills to put authentic communication at the center of the classroom.To help educators navigate the transition from theory to practice, VietTBLT—an initiative dedicated to advancing task-based …
To share forthcoming notifications, news, and updates, kindly direct them to our editor Huy Phung at phunghuy@hawaii.edu and guavamerica@gmail.com