Teaching Insights

MTS announces the winners of its 2023 awards in Vietnam: HEW London for Best International Partnership, and Gem Nguyen for Best Country Manager.

A recap of the MTS Business Party in Hanoi, bringing together language centre professionals from across Vietnam to celebrate and connect.

Following an initial successful business trip to Vietnam in May 2023, MTS’s Head of Operations Ivo Vicente and Business Growth Manager Korina Freese both spent the latter part of October 2023 meeting our key partners and friends in Vietnam, including the British Council team in Hanoi.

Today (5 October) is World Teachers' Day, an international day held annually to celebrate the work of teachers worldwide and the value they add to society as a whole. Established in 1994, the day’s activities aim to focus on "appreciating, assessing and improving the educators of the world" and to provide an opportunity to appreciate our wonderful teachers.

Today is Tet Doan Ngo, the mid-year festival in Vietnam, celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and a perfect opportunity for this blog post about MTS’s recent IELTS English language teaching events and business development activity in Vietnam.

MTS is delighted to announce that it has recruited Gem Nguyen* as MTS’s IELTS Training Country Manager for Vietnam.

The focus in the IELTS reading component, for the academic and general versions of the exam, is on testing competence, that is use of the language rather than language knowledge per se. Yet, the temptation for many students and teachers is to focus on the latter. A common outcome of this is that candidates fail to make progress during IELTS preparation by themselves or in courses and perform well below their level of competence in the reading component in the exam itself, much to their own frustration, and that of their teacher.