The effectiveness of Zalo in developing Vietnamese-English translation skills for English-majored students

Tóm tắt

Nowadays, information technology in education is being widely used in Vietnam to improve the quality of teaching. This study aims to find out the impact of Zalo on learners' Vietnamese-English translation skills towards the use of Zalo. Participants were 88 English major students in their second year at Nam Can Tho University. This empirical study followed a two-group pretest and post-test design. Two instruments used to collect both quantitative and qualitative data were the questionnaire and Vietnamese-English translating tests. Results showed that there is a significant difference in students' translating performance between the two groups. After the experimental teaching process, the average value of the experimental group (M=22.62) was higher than the control group (M=18.66). Students in the experimental group outperformed the control group in translating tests. Through the process of changing from traditional teaching methods to applying new teaching methods with the Zalo application, many positive impacts on both students and lecturers are recorded.