Language is equal in their structural complexity and in their potential to express the ideas of their users. In this modern life, the need of international communication has been increasing rapidly. A hallmark of human language use is that it shows structure at many different levels, such that at each level, a difference in linguistic form can express a difference in linguistic function. It is regarded as a predominant means of international communication, particularly of transferring written information. Information communication technology (ICT) news discourse is a crucial source for readers to update new information about how technology changes second by second. Does the ICT news discourse contain many new words, new structures?
The fact is that, there are many sources of ICT news discourse in English and Vietnamese, they supply us with good resources to explore and then use them as authentic materials to teach and learning language in general and language of information communication technology in particular.
ICT news discourse is always informative and can attract many popular readers. It reports the latest events in all aspects of technology life quickly and informatively. The question is that how to help popular readers to get in the content effectively requires a study of its discourse structures and linguistic features.
“A comparative study of discourse structures and some major linguistic features in information communication technology news in English and Vietnamese” is chosen for analysis because, as suggested by Firth (1935), it is ‘here that we shall find the key to a better understanding of what language is and how it works’. The study about this topic will be investigated fully in all aspects concerned with a hope that the study will be a good reference for teachers and students of language, especially to those, who are teaching and learning the language of information communication technology for their specific purposes in English and Vietnamese.