As Vietnam announced plans to make English a compulsory subject from grade 1, parents across the country rejoiced, seeing it as a chance for their children to get an early start in language learning ...

Seven years later, children who start learning English in the first grade achieve poorer results in this subject than children whose first English lesson isn’t until the third grade. The researchers ...

An earlier study had raised doubts about the effectiveness of learning English in the first grade. Now, researchers have observed that it improves language performance over an extended period of time.

The Prime Minister has officially approved a 20-year national plan to make English Vietnam’s second language in schools, with full implementation expected by 2045. English to be second language in ...