Teaching reading comprehension using a genre-based approach has posed some sophisticated requirements to text organization. Examining the short stories in The 11th grade Literature textbook (Volume 1), this paper analyzes and evaluates their ability in meeting the requirements of the genre- based approach as well as proposes how to order these texts to fit those requirements.

Questions play an important role in teaching activities in general and in teaching literary work in particular and using questions has been one of the oldest teaching techniques. The question is how to use questions in such ways that the questions are systematically manipulated, scientifically effective so that they can stimulate students to eagerly take part in learning process. We strongly believe that it is possible to use Bloom’s taxonomy in making the questions up for the lesson plans as well as organizing the activities for teaching literary works so as to develop students’ thinking capacity – one of the capacities targeted by the current educational curriculum. The scope of experiment on using the proposed system of questions is applicable within the teaching hours of literary works to students of junior high schools.

The hedonic’s problem in Nguyen Cong Tru's poetry has so far been criticized by many researchers. Nevertheless, the prejudice has clouded humanitarian and modernism values conveyed in the author's works. From the view of author’s typology, Nguyen Cong Tru could be regarded as an unorthodox confucianist – considering self-indulgence the mission and purpose of his life. Not only did he follow in his ancestors’ footsteps, but he also developed his own liberal style in his way of describing the deepest corners of human souls where earthly desires and instincts could easily be found. It could be seen from his works that human beings had never ceased wanting to enjoy both their physical and spiritual well-beings. It is also the way people treasure the present life, balance between work and pleasure to enjoy all dimensions of life. Such positive views and values in Nguyen Cong Tru's poems are far ahead of his time.

Based on the concept about interactions of genres and interactions of Vietnamese literature genre, the paper describes the transformation ability at the core-level of short stories interacting with novels, and the transformation of modern novels based on narrative art of short stories.

In the early decades of the 20th century, verse-narrative written in Vietnamese Romanized script in Southern Vietnam was published and republished massively and sold in most of the bookstores with the reasonable price. At this time, the verse-narative was appreciated by readers from the six southern provinces. Due to the historical conditions and changes in people’s demands for reading literary works, however, this form of literature has become unpopular and neglectful since the mid- twentieth century. Within the scope of this study, the advent of this literary genre, the market, and the readers’ reaction to verse-narrative written in Vietnamese Romanized script in the south of Vietnam are presented.

Published in 2011, Tran Dan’s Crossroads and Lampposts is a special novel with modern narrative style. It connects Franz Kafka’s The Trial (1925) on many aspects. In this article, two works from an existential perspective to emphasize their humanistic values and the connection between Tran Dan and Franz Kafka are approached.

Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa were two famous writers and considered the most significant Spanish-language authors of the 20th century, especially won the Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1982 and in 2010. Many of their novels have inherited traditions of Latin American literature. On the other hand, they were somewhat rebellious from the general point of view of Latin America culture. The themes regularly appeared in Márquez and Llosa's novels as "indigene" and "exoticism", from which they showed unique reflections on the cultural identity of Latin America.

This article examines the concept of Nature in Zen Buddhist and Taoist thoughts, expressing in the literary critical works written by the Chinese as well as the Vietnamese classical authors. The article consists of two parts: Concept of Nature in the works of Ly – Tran period, and Concept of Nature in the works of Le – Nguyen period.

When Japanese literature was introduced in an overview according to the historical process in Vietnam is still open-ended question which is hard for any Japanese researchers to answer decisively. Finding the press materials published before 1945 allows us to realize the first steps in approaching the literature of the country having the same culture and scripts of Vietnam. It is fortune for us to find the serial article “Van chuong nuoc Nhut” by the author Lu Khe pubished in the Tu do newspaper in Saigon in 1936. Although only the two-term text of this article not full text was found, it helped us to envision the very first steps of introducing Japanese literature in Vietnam. We have read the article, and compared it with the knowledge of Japanese literature to realize the uncorrect knowledge of the author so that we can better understand the difficulties in the early time of the process of recepting Japanese literature in our country.

Iser was a prominent representative of the reception theory – the Konstanz school. He built his theory with a profound understanding of and serious respect for the literary text during the receiving process. In the first period of his studying, Iser focused on the reading and processing the literary text, and discovered that, during the reception, not only did the readers re-create the text but the text also re-created the readers, in other words, the re-creation process happened in a two-way manner. In the second period, Iser studied why and for what readers seeked out literature, and concluded that fiction and imagination enabled people to extend or get beyond the limits of reality, empowering them to build their own inner selves and the world as a game, in which they freed themselves from the burden of all disappointments and restrictions in life.

The article explores some aspects of Thailand Theravāda Buddhism through the film of Phi Mak Phra Khanong from reception perspective. The method and theory of reception aesthetics are used to provide a different perspective on the Theravāda Buddhism and create a basis to interpret these objects in the reception of public’s media. The public reception of Buddhism in general and Thailand Theravāda in particular has also been clarified by connecting to some Vietnamese horror films of the same period.

Teaching reading comprehension using a genre-based approach has posed some sophisticated requirements to text organization. Examining the short stories in The 11th grade Literature textbook (Volume 1), this paper analyzes and evaluates their ability in meeting the requirements of the genre- based approach as well as proposes how to order these texts to fit those requirements.