Integrating service learning activities into the English major undergraduate curriculum at Hue University of Foreign Languages

Abstract

Abstract: With an effort to promote closer links between school and community throughout university training programs, service learning (SL)  activities have recently been tried out in the English major undergradue curriculum at the Faculty of English, Hue University of Foreign Languages (HUFL). This paper seeks to depict an overview of these SL endeavours illustrated by examples of implementation at HUFL and then makes recommendations as to the embeddment of service learning in English programs in Vietnam.

Keywords: service learning, English Language Teaching, community engaged learning