English proficiency of Vietnamese hits five-year low: EF report

tuoitre – Wednesday, November 06, 2019, 14:05 GMT+7

English proficiency of Vietnamese hits five-year low: EF report
A foreign teacher shows a student a picture during an English lesson at an elementary school in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Nhu Hung / Tuoi Tre

Vietnamese people’s proficiency in using English has fallen for the third year in a row to reach the lowest point since 2015, according to the 2019 English Proficiency Index compiled by the global education firm Education First (EF).

Vietnamese’ English skills improved from “very low” to “low” between 2011 and 2014, before maintaining a “moderate” proficiency level between 2015 and 2018, according to the annual EF report.

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