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Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Educational Reform (ICER 2013)

: ASEAN Education in the 21st Century

© Mahasarakham University, 2013

Learning Southeast Asian Literature

in Hue University's College of Education

Nguyen Anh Dan

College of Education, Hue University, Vietnam

Abstract

Southeast Asian Literature was a wide literary background of the countries in ASEAN

which established on the cultural layer of Southeast Asia. In Vietnam, Southeast Asian Literature

attracted many researchers’ attention. However, no one set it in a student’s concrete learning

condition of Hue University's College of Education (HUCE). The aims of this study are to express

the reality of learning Southeast Asian Literature in HUCE. Methods used in this study were

questionnaire and interview with 320 students of Literature Department, HUCE. Results of this

research expressed a satisfactory situation of learning Southeast Asian Literature in HUCE.

However, the investigational data (about Interesting degree, Awareness of importance,

Developmental ability and Individual potential of research Southeast Asian Literature) was

contradictory to Teachable degree of Southeast Asian Literature lecturer. This is the reason why

there was a difference between the researcher’s predictions and the real results. This study also

suggested some solutions for improving quality of the learning and developing Vietnamese students’

understanding of ASEAN culture.

Keywords : Learning, Southeast Asian, Literature, Education, HUCE

Learning Southeast Asian Literature in

HUE University’s College of Education

Southeast Asian Literature is a term “to

show literary countries in this area and there

are common cultural backgrounds, specific

features between them through their

exchanges as a large community”1

(Duc, Tran,

Do, Vo, 2000, p. 16). The literature was one

of the important elements and got an essential

role in the layer of cultural ASEAN. However,

Southeast Asian Literature was considered as

a depression of world literature (Phu, 2012). It

gained the world researcher’s attention late, as

Duc et al. (2000) stated:

Southeast Asian Literature began to be

researched in the 1950s of the twentieth

century. The time

before 1960 was period of finding and holding

literature of each country in Southeast Asia.

There were few sporadic articles about

literature of Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar

and Malaysia.

(Duc et al., 2000, p. 9)

Subject Southeast Asian Literature was

established in Vietnam along with the

founding of Center of Southeast Asian Studies

in 1973. (Nowadays, its name is Institute for

Southeast Asian Studies which belonged to

Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences).

However, until now, achievements of

researching Southeast Asian Literature were

not remarkable if compared to the other