
Talks & Publications
By/For GUAVA Members
This list is tentative. It will be updated soon. It showcases GUAVA members’ active contribution in academic and professional activities.
| Speaker(s)/Author(s) | Title of Talk/Publication | Year | Conference/Event | 
| Jennie Tran (UH Mānoa) | Using TikTok in Vietnamese Language Classrooms | 2024 | GUAVA 2024 Workshop | 
| An Sakach (ASU), Huy Phung (UH Mānoa), Chung Nguyen (Columbia U) , ThuyAnh Nguyen (M Michigan) | Advancing Vietnamese Language Learning: A TBLT Approach through OER | 2024 | GUAVA 2024 Workshop | 
| An Sakach (ASU) | Bilingual Books: Engaging Students in Active Cultural Heritage Stewardship | 2024 | GUAVA 2024 Workshop | 
| Trang Tran (Brown University) | Nurturing Cultural Roots: A Quest for Effective Heritage Language Instruction | 2024 | GUAVA 2024 Workshop | 
| Hoan Nguyen (UC, San Diego) & Huy Phung (UH Mānoa) | Humanizing Proficiency-Based Reading Materials for Vietnamese Heritage Learners | 2025 | SEALC Symposium 2025 | 
| Trang Phan (Ca’ Foscari U), Nghia Ha (U of Finance – Marketing), An Sakach (ASU) | Integrating Authentic Materials in Elementary Vietnamese: Pedagogical Practices and Learning Outcomes | 2025 | SEALC Symposium 2025 | 
| An Sakach (Arizona State University) | Transforming Language Curriculum through Performance-Based Assessment | 2025 | SEALC Symposium 2025 | 
| Jennie Tran (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) | Lessons Learned after Piloting SEALC Listening Assessment Tests on Vietnamese-learning Students | 2025 | SEALC Symposium 2025 | 
| Hoa Le (Harvard University) | Enhancing Placement Testing in a Vietnamese Language Program | 2025 | SEALC Symposium 2025 | 
| Chung Nguyen (Columbia University) | Enhancing Advanced Vietnamese Language Instruction: Bridging Reading Material Design and Classroom Application | 2025 | SEALC Symposium 2025 | 
| Thúy Tranviet (Cornell U) & Trang Tran (Brown U) | Designing Post-Reading Tasks to Help Students Engage with Authentic Intermediate and Advanced Vietnamese Readings | 2025 | SEALC Symposium 2025 | 
| Hong Dinh (UW-Madison) | Piloting Proficiency Reading and Listening Tests at Vietnamese Intensive Program | 2025 | SEALC Symposium 2025 | 
| Ha Vo (USSH, Hanoi) & An Sakach (ASU) | Applying Task-Based Teaching (TBLT) Approach In Listening Teaching For Chinese Students | 2025 | SEALC Symposium 2025 | 
| Nghia Ha, An Sakach & Trang Phan (U of Finance – Marketing, ASU & Ca’ Foscari U) | Growing Confidence, Growing Curiosity: Learner Emotions and Engagement with Authentic Vietnamese Materials | 2025 | 2nd Venice-Tempe Vietnamese Language Teaching Symposium | 
| Nguyễn Trần Quý & An Sakach (USSH Ho Chi Minh city & ASU) | The influence of intonation on Vietnamese lexical tone perception by L2 learners | 2025 | 2nd Venice-Tempe Vietnamese Language Teaching Symposium | 
| Giang Vu, Masaaki Shimizu & Trang Phan (Vietnam National U Hanoi, Osaka U & Ca’ Foscari U) | The Multifunctionality of Wh-Words in Vietnamese: Insights from Japanese Learners | 2025 | 2nd Venice-Tempe Vietnamese Language Teaching Symposium | 
| Hoan Nguyen & Huy Phung (UC San Diego & UH Mānoa) | Taskifying Literature: Using Reading Circles to Engage Heritage Learners | 2025 | 2nd Venice-Tempe Vietnamese Language Teaching Symposium | 
| Hoa Le & Thi Thu Ha Nguyen (Harvard U & Nanyang Technological U, Singapore) | Sequencing Practices in Vietnamese Conversation: Insights for Language Teaching | 2025 | 2nd Venice-Tempe Vietnamese Language Teaching Symposium | 
| Trang Tran (Brown University) | ‘Dear Students, I Know That’s AI’: Resilient Assignment Strategies for Vietnamese Language Education | 2025 | 2nd Venice-Tempe Vietnamese Language Teaching Symposium | 
| Trang Phan, Bianca Basciano & Lan Chu (Ca’ Foscari U & Vietnam National U Hanoi) | Acquiring Vietnamese Forms of Address: A Study of Chinese Learners | 2025 | 2nd Venice-Tempe Vietnamese Language Teaching Symposium |