On March 25th, 2016, the PPA in collaboration with the
Embassy of the United States in Vietnam and the Regional English Language Office
in Hanoi (RELO) held the closing ceremony of the Workshop “Strategies for
building English materials for specialty of Traffic Police at all level”. This
activity was within the framework of the stage 2 of the project “Training English
language for Public Security forces in Vietnam” in 2016 of the Embassy of the
United States according to the orientation of the leadership of the Ministry of
Public Security.
Attending the ceremony were Mr. Tomas Mandl, Political
Attaché, Embassy of United States in Vietnam; Mr. Le Duong, Representative of RELO in Hanoi; Mrs. Jennifer Lani Kagawa, Expert
in English Language. On the side of the PPA were Major General, Assoc. Prof.
Dr. Dang Xuan Khang, Vice President of the Academy; Representatives of the
Foreign Languages Department, International Cooperation Division and 20 trainees.
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Vice President of the PPA and English language experts
presented the Certificates to the trainees
Speaking at the ceremony, Mrs. Jennifer Lani Kagawa
expressed the sincere thanks to the PPA for the support to the successful
organization of the Workshop. Besides, she also appreciated the enthusiastic
and active participation of the representatives. Mrs. Jennifer Lani Kagawa hoped
to continue to coordinate with the PPA in the coming time in organizing the other
international events, including the Workshop on ESP teaching methods for ASEAN
countries which was expected to be held in this August. Finally, with the achieved
results, she would cooperate with lecturers of the Foreign Languages Department
of the PPA in completing the materials for the Traffic Police force to apply in
the nearest time.
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Representatives took memorial photograph
In reply to the opinion of Mrs. Jennifer, Major
General, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dang Xuan Khang also thanked to the Embassy of the
Unites States in Vietnam and the RELO Office for the positive cooperation in
recent years, especially the success of stage 1 of the project “Strengthening
of English language capacity for Vietnam police force”. He stressed, English
language played increasingly important role in international integration,
especially as the establishment of ASEAN Community was coming. Therefore, the
project “Strengthening of English language capacity for Vietnam police force”
in general and this Workshop in particular had the great significance, as the
prerequisite for the development of English language ability for the Public
Security force as well as the work of teaching English at the PPA. Finally, the
Vice President of the PPA thanked the US Embassy in Vietnam, RELO Office in
Hanoi and the English language experts for their enthusiastic support to the PPA,
he also asked the lecturers of the Foreign Languages Department who participated
in the Workshop to quickly apply what they learned into their work, contribute
to improving the teaching effectiveness in the PPA.
Written by Nguyen Dinh Dat
Translated by Cong Phuong