During the last fifty years, South Korea has continuously reformed and modernized its national education system aiming to promote its people’s intellectual standards and world integration. With regards to national language education in schools, South Korea has made changes to the teaching and learning objectives, curriculum and teaching methodology. It could be certainly said that all these efforts have brought good results. Based on a review of policies and practices of national language education in South Korea, the paper will draw some lessons for national language education in Vietnam.The paper has two main parts: 1. National language education in South Korea. 2. Korean national language education’s lessons for Vietnam...
