Pronunciation pedagogy in English as a foreign language teacher education programs in Vietnam

Pronunciation has gained significant attention in the field of English language teaching, with recent studies examining pronunciation representation in textbooks, classroom practices, teachers’ beliefs, and learners’ perceptions. However, research into teachers learning to teach English pronunciation is only beginning to emerge. The current study extends this line of enquiry by investigating the preparation of 20 Vietnamese English teachers to teach pronunciation. The study also examined the teachers’ perceptions of how Vietnamese teacher education could further assist teachers in teaching pronunciation. Qualitative data sources included academic transcripts, a questionnaire, and individual semi-structured interviews to examine the teacher-participants’ pronunciation pedagogy training and their beliefs about effective pronunciation teacher preparation. The findings showed that the teachers were insufficiently trained but reported being confident in their ability to teach English pronunciation. The participants also proposed several changes to be made to Vietnamese English teacher education programs for teachers to teach pronunciation more effectively

Rule of Thirds Based Fast Color Error Evaluation for QoE- Guaranteed Mobile Media Services

Video streaming has become one of the most essential ways in online communication. While video streaming is widely used in most of the Mobile Multimedia applications, it is not only necessarily required to maintain the high video quality but also minimized the video processing time to ensure the Quality of Service (QoS) as well as Quality of Experience (QoE) of the system in live broadcasting. This paper introduces the different way to evaluate the transmission errors in video applications by measuring the error with un-uniform distribution of information importance factor in pixels to achieve a suitable order in error correction. By changing the QoS evaluating method by considering Regions of Interest, especially fundamental rules in art study such Rule of Thirds, QoE should be improved to get closer to the viewer concerns and increase the system efficiency. Error detection as well as correction should be significantly corrected in priority orders