Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese citizens fled their country after the fall of Saigon in 1975, when the communist-controlled North took over the American-aided South. The U.S. government accepted ...

Vicky Tran wants her son to be able to speak with his grandparents. The thing is, they speak Vietnamese and the 5-year-old has decided that he’d rather stick with English. Enter the new ...

MIDWAY CITY, Calif. (KABC) -- Kindergarten students in Midway City are taking part in the state's first Vietnamese-English dual immersion program. Students at Demille Elementary School spend half of ...

Since she founded her English-learning company in 2015, Vietnamese entrepreneur Vu Van struggled to expand her business, English Language Speech Assistant (ELSA), which provides an app powered by ...

Kim Vorasai, a 41-year-old Portlander who emigrated from Vietnam at age five, never learned to write or read in her native language. Back then, Vorasai said, Portland Public Schools’ educational ...

This article investigates the effects of ethnic acceptance and prejudice on English language learning among immigrant nonnative speakers. During 2004 and 2005, the author conducted participatory ...

Each student at my child's school pays VND300,000 (US$11.37) a month to learn English with a foreign teacher, but the school hires non-native English speakers. My child is in 9th grade, and during the ...

This longitudinal study modeled lexical development among children who spoke Vietnamese as a first language (L1) and English as a second language (L2). Participants (n = 33, initial mean age of 7.3 ...