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 ...

Vietnam will make English a mandatory subject from grade 1 under a nationwide plan to establish it as a second language in schools by 2030. The move is part of the government's newly approved project ...