Research about the impact of microfinance on incomes of poor households in Vietnam, using the quantitative research methods, linear regression model, STATA 12 software applications, with cross data gathered from the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey 2012 (VHLSS 2012). Results of regression analysis showed that factors affecting the income of poor households include: age, household size, dependency ratio, total assets, micro credit, and regions. The study also shows that the impact of microfinance on incomes of poor households are each different. Through the findings, policy recommendations support is proposed to further enhance the operations of microfinance, to help poor households have access to loans to invest in production and business activities, thereby improved earnings.

Lam Dong has its very potentials of being a strategic coffee producing region serving the domestic market and export. However, the volatility of coffee price along with intrinsic weaknesses had recently affected the competitiveness of coffee production of the province. The Domestic Resource Cost approach (DRC) was employed in this study to analyze the factors affecting the comparative advantage of coffee production in Lam Ha, Lam Dong. Key results showed that despite of the obvious dependence on the world price of coffee, Lam Ha remains highly competitive of coffee production and the competiveness is highly sensitive to domestic resource costs, foreign resource cost and the exchange rate. In particular, if the cost of domestic resources increased by 25%, DRC/SER = 0.7; or if the cost of foreign resources increased by 25%, DRC/SER = 0.641; or if the exchange rate fell 25%, DRC/SER = 0.43; or if the price of coffee exports fell 25%, DRC/SER = 0.866. The approach used in this study gains more insights about the differences in comparative advances of coffee production in Lam Ha District, Lam Dong Province; it could be, therefore, adapted and applied for coffee production in other provinces in Central Highlands or perennial plants in Vietnam.

Course-book is seen as a vital source of providing teachers and students with content and activities for the training process. However, it is important to evaluate a course-book to investigate whether it meets students’ needs and interests. This study attempted to explore students’ evaluation on the course-book “Translation and Intepretation1” designed and developed to train second-year students in the field. Data were collected from 163 students of 6 classes who responded to the questionnaire. The study reveals that most of the students showed highly positive attitudes towards the course-book in terms of both content and teaching activities. This makes a good start for the Faculty of Foreign Languages to make an innovation for renewing the materials for the translation and interpretation training.

This paper represents the whole process of analyzing negative sentences in English and Vietnamese by comparing the negation in the two languages. Besides, it is an effort to contribute to the field of contrastive analysis of English-Vietnamese language. The scope of this study focuses on the simple negative sentences. The study is divided into three parts: showing simple negative sentences in English, showing simple negative sentences in Vietnamese and comparing some differences and similarities between simple negative sentences in English and simple negative sentences in Vietnamese

It is no denying that professional development is significant to teachers as requirements for teachers change over time and teachers usually have to fulfill different expectations from different institutions. This article first reviews the models of teachers’ professional development applied around the world. In order to have highly-qualified teachers, institutions should be concerned about establishing recruitment procedure and initial education for teachers, improving environments for teachers’ development, creating an effective evaluation system and encouraging teacher commitment to making educational renovations. Finally, the paper also makes implications on what Vietnamese academic organizations should do to have an improved the teaching profession and learning outcomes.

This paper illustrates findings from a case study of applying role-play in EFL classroom. Role-play in this paper does not refer to the traditional model; it is the variations of role-play when students are exposed to authentic situations inside and outside class based on the task-based approach. This is a small cohort of around 16 first year students about seven weeks. Qualitative approach is employed. Previous researchers’ theories about applying role-play worldwide have been displayed in the case when students overcome their fears, challenges and put more their efforts in speaking English with their peers in the class accuracy, fluency and confidently. In other words, through role-play application, students prove themselves in dealing with the uncertainty water of context changes when they communicate in English in actual situations as well as in their long life learning experience. Core factors contributing to students’ speaking achievement are students’ effort and motivation being recognized by role-play. The others could rely on their ability of conducting their speaking competence. This case concludes that role-play should be applied in EFL classroom in the context of Vietnam

Learning and memorizing vocabulary is very important in language learning, especially for young learners. There are a lot of methods that help learners to approach and get acquainted with effectively. One of the feasible methods is to dramatize vocabulary teaching in classes of young learners. This method not only helps learners to practice and memorize vocabulary longer because of their creativity through the use of language while performing drama, but it also gives them an interest in learning as they have the opportunity to interact directly in the natural role play.

Business correspondence is one of the most important business tools. They are used for keeping in touch with company's customers and the close social, business relationship. It also gives a company a competitive edge and offers marvelous results. After graduation, students will become a business person. Business correspondence is used in their working environment every day. An effective business letter can give them opportunities to quickly get ahead in their career. “Business correspondence” is a subject in the syllabus in our university. Surveying the studying situation, our students find it very difficult for writing the kinds of letters. One of the reasons is that students have no real experience in writing. Writing a right business letter is challenges for them. How to write an effective business letter, what are common errors made and how to solve the problems are the purposes focused on in four parts of the presentation.

The objective of this paper is to analyze errors in the use of noun clauses made by senior English major students at Van Hien University. Identifying and analyzing errors as well as finding out the causes of errors are crucial in foreign language learning. Learning from previous studies about errors analysis, this case study focuses on analyzing thirty academic essays in order to find out solutions to improve accuracy in language competence for learners. The results explains that errors concludes 35 omission errors (51%), 15 misformation errors (22%), 13 addition errors (19%), 6 misordering errors (8%). The error analysis contributes to raising awareness about the precise use of general English syntax and noun clauses in particular to improve learners' language ability

This research examines the impact of tourism and local residents support for development of tourism destination in the Cu Chi, Hochiminh City. The study conducts a survey by using a formal questionnaire with participation of 291 residents who are living in Cu Chi, five research hypotheses were proposed. The findings show that the economic impacts of tourism were most favorably behavioral control and socio-cultural factor. Tourism service generates great pressure on local resources, impact on energy consumption, food, and other raw materials requirements that are in shortage and unavailability. Besides that, tourism causes pollution and exhausts environment as any other industries. For long-term strategy of tourist development, tourism must incorporate the principles and practices of sustainable consumption.

Bac Lieu bird sanctuary is a species and habitat conservation area under the current classification of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development (MARD). There are many potential and opportunities for ecotourism development due to its rich biodiversity, many plant communities and wild birds with large numbers of individuals. These wild birds concentrate on here for residence, nesting and breeding. However, the exploitation of tourism is not proportional with the existing potential, mainly spontaneous. On the basis of the literature related to the Bac Lieu bird sanctuary published, the author's practical experiences, the paper focuses on prospects assessment and propose some solutions to sustainable ecotourism development in the Natural Reserve (NR) Bac Lieu.

In the context of managerial effectiveness, self-management is an important variable which helps employee fully accountable and responsible for making and keeping commitments to improve individual performance. This opens many opportunities and challenges for tourism and hospitality organizations of high power distance culture such as Vietnam to take advantages of well-performed employee to be competitive in the market. In an effort to help local tourism and hospitality companies to have an overview about employees’ behavior in working performance, this study examined the consequences of front-line service employee self-management in the tourism and hospitality organizations in HCM City, Vietnam. Employing the CFA and SEM analyses, the research findings indicated the positive relationships among self-management, psychological empowerment, self-efficacy; and these antecedents had a significant impact on job performance of Vietnamese employees. The study also points out useful managerial implications to help managers use suitable human resource management (HRM) strategies to gain employee self-management and job performance in tourism and hospitality industry

In modern times, the form of rural tourism is developing ceaselessly due to its positive effects towards the economy, the society, and the environment of a country. In Vietnam, the potentials for development of rural tourism are greatly enormous, but its enhancement is inconsiderable and unsustainable. There has been misused the potentials somehow. The paper supplies some questions about the development tendency of Vietnam’s rural tourism based on experiences learned from other countries, on its potentials, on the orientation of Vietnam Communist Party and Government; and some solutions are suggested accordingly.

Ca Mau national park (located in Ca Mau province) is recognized by Ramsar international convention – UNESCO as the 5th Ramsar site in Vietnam. The site has many advantages and potentials to develop tourism, especially ecotourism. However, the activities utilized to develop tourism in the site are not very considerable in comparison with its available potentials. This paper states the author’s viewpoint of the existing actualities, the exploitable potential, and suggests some feasible solutions for the development of sustainable ecotourism at Ramsar site Mui Ca Mau.

The study was conducted to survey the influence of some preservatives (GA3, 1-MCP and CaCl2) on the ability to maintain peel green colour and quality of seedless lime fruit during cold storage. Harvested limes were treated with CaCl¬2 solution (1; 2; 3%/ 2 minutes), GA3 solution (50; 100; 150 ppm/ 2minutes) and 1-MCP (0.5; 1; 1.5 ppm/ 6 hours) whereas untreated lime fruits were regarded as control. Afterwards the fruits were packed in perforated PE packs and stored at 8oC. Quality assessments were performed from 4 weeks to 10 weeks with 2 weeks intervals. The results indicated that 1-MCP 1-1.5 ppm/6 hours could retain the quality of seedless lime fruit up to 8 weeks of storage at 8oC in terms of retarding in yellowing of the peel, reducing disease and maintaining physico-chemical properties.

In order to find out the concentration and dipping time of acid-chitosan coating solution for treating “Tieu Da Bo” longan fruits to reduce browning and maintain good quality during storage, an investigationwas carried out in a completely randomized factorial design with two factors by dipping longan fruits in 0; 0.2; 0.3; 0.4% chitosan coating solution containing 0.3 N citric acid (pH 3.3) for 1, 3 and 5 minutes. The treated fruits in each treatment were then packaged in PE bag with 0.035mm thickness and stored at 5°C,80-95% RH for 26 days, and observations of fruit quality during storage were taken place. Results indicated that 0.2% chitosan solution containing 0.3 N citric acid (pH 3.3) for 3 minutes could retard skin color changes with the lowest browning grade and disease percentage, and high L* value compared to the others. Based on browning grade, the fruits treated with 0.2% chitosan (pH 3.3) were still acceptable after 26 days of storage, while other treatments on fruits were not acceptable. In addition, weight loss and internal quality did not change much during storage.

Service quality is still a new concept to those working in the telecom service industries in Viet Nam since it has not been identified as a mandatory factor in increase competitive advantage, especially are state owned companies as Ho Chi Minh City Telecom Company (HCMCTC). Although the company has implemented many surveys on the level of the customers’ satisfaction, the result has not yet reflected the comprehensive service quality offered by the company. This research aims to conduct an assessment on service quality at Ho Chi Minh City Telecom Company based on the SERVQUAL model under the form of dimension-by-dimension analysis. The outcomes would help the top leaders to have an identified and full picture about the current service quality. Consequently, solution will be provided according to the findings of the research.

SVM (Support Vector Machine) is a concept in statistics and computer science for a set of supervised learning methods related to each other for classification and regression analysis. SVM is a binary classification algorithm, Support vector machine (SVM) to build a hyperplane to classify the data set into two separate classes. A hyperplane is a function similar to the line equation, y = ax + b. In fact, if we need to classify a dataset with only two features, the hyperplane is now a straight line. In terms of ideas, SVM uses tricks to map the original dataset to more dimensional spaces. Once mapped to a multidimensional space, SVM will review and select the most suitable superlattice to classify that data set.