Knowledge of Vietnamese Language included in Literature for Grade 7 Students in Vietnam

What knowledge of the Vietnamese language is included in the Literature curriculum for grade 7 students in Vietnam?

Based on Subsection 2 of Section 5 of the General Literature Curriculum issued under Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the Vietnamese language knowledge for grade 7 students includes:

- Proverbs and idioms: characteristics and functions

- Terminology: characteristics and functions

- The meaning of some common Sino-Vietnamese elements (e.g., quốc, gia) and the meaning of words containing those elements (e.g., quốc thể, gia cảnh)

- Context and the meaning of words in context

- Numerals, adverbs: characteristics and functions

- Main components and adverbial elements in sentences: expanding main components and adverbials using phrases

- Application of ellipsis dots (in cooperation with commas, to indicate several similar items or phenomena not fully listed; to express interrupted or hesitant speech; to stretch the rhythm of the sentence, preparing for the introduction of unexpected or humorous, satirical content)

- Rhetorical devices of hyperbole and understatement: characteristics and effects

- Coherence and flow in texts: characteristics and functions

- Text types and genres:

+ Narrative texts: essays recounting real events related to characters and historical events

+ Expressive texts: expressive essays; four-line and five-line poems; paragraphs recording emotions after reading a four or five-line poem.

+ Argumentative texts: the relationship between opinions, reasons, and evidence; an argumentative essay on a social issue; an analysis essay on a literary work

+ Informational texts: footnotes and references; explanatory essays for a rule or practice in games or activities; reports; summaries of varying lengths

- Regional language variations: understanding and valuing linguistic differences among regions

- Non-verbal communication means: images, statistics

In addition to Vietnamese language knowledge, grade 7 students' literature knowledge includes:

- The cognitive value of literature

- Themes and subjects of texts; the relationship between details and themes, ways to identify text themes; author's attitudes and emotions reflected in texts

- Summarized texts- Forms of proverbs

- Themes, events, situations, plots, spaces, times, characters of fables and science fiction stories

- First-person and third-person narrators; the effect of each type of narrator in a narrative

- Formal elements of four and five-line poems: number of lines, words, rhyme, rhythm

- Lyrical quality, the self, the language of essays and journalistic prose

- Life experiences and understanding of literature

What are Literature texts for grade 7 in Vietnam?

According to Subsection 2 of Section 5 of the General Literature Curriculum issued under Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the literature texts for grade 7 include:

(1). Literary texts:

- Fables, short stories, science fiction stories

- Poems, four-line poems, five-line poems

- Essays, journalistic prose

- Proverbs

(2). Argumentative texts:

- Social arguments

- Literary arguments

(3). Informational texts:

- Texts introducing rules or practices in games or activities

- Reports

Knowledge of Vietnamese Language included in Literature for Grade 7 Students in Vietnam ​ (Image from the Internet)

Who selects the Literature textbooks for grade 7 students in Vietnam?

According to Clause 1, Article 32 of the Education Law 2019, the regulation on general textbooks is as follows:

General textbooks

1. The general textbooks are regulated as follows:

a) Textbooks implement secondary school curricula, specifying the objectives, educational content, quality and competency requirements of students; providing guidance on teaching methods and assessment tools; ensuring content and textbook formats are free from ethnic, religious, occupational, gender, age, and social status biases; textbooks can be in printed form, Braille, and electronic formats;

b) Each subject can have one or multiple textbooks; private investment in textbook composition is allowed; textbook publication complies with legal regulations;

c) Provincial-level People's Committees decide the stable use of textbooks at secondary schools in their areas according to regulations by the Ministry of Education and Training;

d) Local educational materials are compiled by provincial-level People's Committees to meet local needs and suit local characteristics, subject to evaluation by provincial appraisal committees and approval by the Minister of Education and Training.

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Therefore, according to the regulations by the Minister of Education and Training, the Provincial-level People's Committees decide the selection of literature textbooks for stable use in general schools in their areas.

Thus, the textbooks used in different localities may vary but will still ensure the subject content as per the General Literature Curriculum issued under Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT.