“English-speakingpeopleconstitut eabou ton etenth oftheworld’spopulation,”whichincludespeoplesfro m greatnations:Th eUnite dKingdom,th eUnite dStates, Australia,Canada,.oEnglish,o nth eothe rhand,i s widelystudie doutsid eth ecountrie so fit suseasasecon d languagesuc hasi nTaiwan,Japan,th ePhilippines,Thailand, an dMalaysia,jus ttomentionafew. I nVietnamEnglishi sbecomingpopulardu et ohistorical, political,an dsocia levents.I ti sarequiredsubjec ti n secondaryeducation.Teacherso fEnglishi npubli chigh schoolsarefairlywelltrained:The yhavethreeyears (no wfou ryears)o fstud yi nth eDepartmen to fEnglisha t theFacultyo fPedagogyi nbot hHuean dSaigo nUniversities, The yar etaughtphilology,phonology,morphology,an dsynta x besidesthecultura lcourses–history,civilization,an d literature–ofth eEnglish-speakingcountries:Th eUnite d Kingdoman dth eUnite dStates.Allthes ecourse sar egive n byprofessorswhoar enativespeaker so fEnglish,Neverthe-lessthe yar eno tquiteprofessionally^’ualifie daccording -‘-Alber tC .Baugh,AHistoryo fth eEng:lis hLangnage, 2n ded.(Ne wYork,l^i3T,P o4. 2 tothestandardsse tforthbyRobertLado;i nanycase, theyarebetterprovidedwithalinguisticbackgroundthan agoo dmanyothe rteachers.Ye tthenumbero fgraduates fromtheFacultyo fPedagogyan dtheFacult yo fLetters (Facult edesLettres)areno tenoug hfo rth etremendously increasingnumbero fstudents.Therefor eanyonewhoknows Englisho ronc elive di na nEnglish-speakingcountry, whethero rno theha danycours ei ntheteachingo flan-guage,ca ngiv eEnglishlessons.Th eVietnameseAmerican Associationi nSaigonan dHue,- ^seem st oprovid eafairly goo dEnglishlearningdu et othefac ttha tcoursesar e conductedbyAmericans.Thes eAmericans,however,ar e notreallyproperlyqualifie dteacherssinc ei ti sno t enoughfo rateacher”t ospea kalanguag et obequalified toteachit,,•< ,Hemus tals oknowth elinguisti cfacts ofthelanguageo fth estudent si norde rt ounderstand theparticularproblemsthe ywillhavei nlearningthe targetlanguage,"^G ,C,Frie sfirml ystates:"Th e nativespeake ro falanguage,unlesshehasbeenspeciall y trainedtoanalysehisow nlanguag eprocesses,willb e