The current general education innovation has clearly defined the quality and capacity goals that students need to achieve, in which shows the integration of life skills in the requirements of each quality and capacity at each educational level. With this innovation, the requirement on life skills education capacity of high school teachers is set. Thus, training in pedagogical schools should pay attention to developing this capacity for students. The article studies the structure of life skill education capacity of pedagogical students, creating a premise for pedagogical schools to develop this capacity for students, meeting the requirements of reforming the general education program in 2018.

The purpose of the current study is to investigate whether peer video recording helps non-English majored college students enhance their speaking performance. Eighty students were selected and assigned to two groups: an experimental group and a control group. Peer video recording was presented to experimental students while no training was given to students in the control group in the same task-based approach. The data, collected based on a pre-posttest design, were analyzed to find out whether or not there were differences between two groups in terms of fluency, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and interactive communication. A questionnaire-based survey was also implemented to explore students’ attitudes on the treatment—peer video recording task-based approach. The study’s results revealed that students in the group treated with peer video recording task-based approach significantly outperformed those in the control group in terms of fluency, grammar, pronunciation and interactive communication while students’ vocabulary score remained after the treatment. In addition, the data obtained from the questionnaire indicated the experimental students had positive attitudes towards the peer video task-based approach. The results from the study provide grounds for some suggestions and recommendations for the teachers, the students as well as the teaching and learning speaking in Vietnam.

The objective of the study is to evaluate the actual status of physical education program implementation and socialization of physical education in high school education in Vietnam. We designed a questionnaire using Google Form, the questionnaire consists of 15 questions including Q.1 to Q.11 related to the physical education program; Q.12 to Q.15 related to the socialization of physical education. The rating scale is divided into 4 levels (non-satisfied; partially satisfied; satisfied; well satisfied). The survey was conducted online of 345 people including education administrators and high schools teachers. Area of the survey is in Hanoi city, Lai Chau province. The study shows that the actual implementation of physical education programs in high schools has not met the targets of the 2018 high school education program promulgated by the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam; for socializing physical education activities, there are still many limitations, socialization activities have not had much positive impact on the quality of teaching physical education subject in high schools.

How to organize educational activities in general and life skills education in particular at all levels to achieve the desired effect is a matter of concern to the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam along with schools, especially after the Ministry of Education promulgates the 2018 general education program, life skills education had become an even more important role in the good implementation of educational goals for students at all levels. The 2018 general education program is gradually being implemented according to the approved roadmap in the coming years in Vietnam, which has been placing high demands on the educational capacity of high school teachers. However, at present, whether high school teachers are able to meet the requirements of educational capacity in general and the capacity to teach life skills for students in particular is a question that is being asked by all levels of management.

Vietnam is in the process of renovating general education which poses many problems in teacher education. The subjects of professional knowledge in pedagogical schools, including the subject of Education is being strongly reformed in terms of contents, programs and teaching methods. Teaching the subject Education baseb on case study method is an effective solution for developing students' pedagogical professional competences. However, in practice, whether the case study methodology has been used by the faculty in teaching Education courses or not, and the results have not been studied. This article aims to provide the data, information and observations for the situation in Vietnam in recent years, setting up a scientific basis for innovation and improvement of pedagogical training process in Vietnam in the next years.