Developing Vietnamese Reading Competence for Ethnic Minority Students at Tay Bac University

Abstract

This article studies the development of Vietnamese competence for ethnic minority students at Tay Bac University. The basic theory of the article is the concept of competence, reading competence, and aspects of reading competence. To aid analysis, this paper applies methods of field research methods of linguistics and description. The article surveyed 500 ethnic minority students belonging to 20 different ethnic groups who are studying in 35 classes in 6 training faculties at Tay Bac University. As a result, the current situation of ethnic minority students' Vietnamese reading competence is demonstrated. Besides, the article also presents strategies to improve the Vietnamese reading competence of ethnic minority students at Tay Bac University.