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Hien Minh Thi Tran

Hien Minh Thi Tran

Professional Doctorate Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Education

Email: hien.m.tran@student.unsw.edu.au

Supervisors: Hoa Nguyen, Troy McConachy

I have presented academic papers at international conferences and published research papers in international journals in the fields of education, engineering, computing, accounting and management since 1988.

I have worked as an educator, a researcher, an author, a systems accountant, a systems manager, an IT consultant, an engineer and, a family business manager and owner. While working, I studied for university qualifications in the fields of Engineering, Accounting, Commerce, Management, Arts, and Education and a qualification as a professional member of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (CPA).

I hold a Master of Education, a Master of Higher Education, a Master of Arts in Creative Writing, a Master of Commerce, a Master of Engineering Science, a Graduate Diploma in Management, a Graduate Conversion Course qualification in Accounting and a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours from Australian universities in NSW, VIC, QLD and TAS.

I am featured in the 2008 Who's Who in Tasmania. I currently live in Sydney.

English has become an indispensable language for communication with foreigners in Vietnam. However, most students from rural areas of Vietnam have low English proficiency as they have limited opportunities to practice listening and speaking English with eloquent English speakers. To provide rural Vietnamese students an opportunity to learn English with educators from Australia, since 2017 I have designed course materials and taught over 200 students from small towns in Vietnam as extracurricular activities for free of charge.
Incorporating reflective learning and oracy skills into culturally responsive pedagogy to teach Students of English as a second language

Selected Publications

  • Tran, H. M. T., Anvari, F., & Phan, H. D. T. (2024, October). Teaching Reflection to First-Year Students of ESL: A Three-Year Collective Case Study in Rural Vietnam. In VietTESOL International Convention Proceedings (Vol. 4). 
  • Tran, H. M. T., Anvari, F., & Phan, H. D. T. (2024, July), Promoting Learner Autonomy and Intercultural Competence Through Reflective Learning among First-year Students: an Action Research, In OpenTESOL Proceedings: Nurturing Open Minds, Shaping Inclusive Futures In Language Education, 310. 
  • Tran, H. M. T., Anvari, F., & Phan, H. D. T. (2022, November). Teaching English Online to Vietnamese Students in a Small Town During the Covid-19 Pandemic. In VietTESOL International Convention Proceedings (Vol. 2). 
  • Tran, H. M. T., Anvari, F., & Phan, H. D. T. (2020, July), Using Social Network To Teach Reflective Concept To Univeristy Students From Rural Areas In Vietnam, in the Kỷ yếu Hội thảo khoa học “Nghiên cứu và giảng dạy ngôn ngữ”, published by Quang Nam University in July 2020, pp. 185-192.
  • Tran, H. M. T., Anvari, F., Phan, T. D. H., & Nguyen, T. T. N. (2019, May). Introducing reflective learning to second-year university English students in a rural province of Vietnam: a case study. In 5th International Conference on Language, Society and Culture in Asian Contexts (pp. 1468-1481). MNC Publishing.
  • Tran, H. M. T., Anvari, F., & Richards, D. (2018). Holistic personas and the five-dimensional framework to assist practitioners in designing context-aware accounting information system e-learning applications. In Context-Aware Systems and Applications, and Nature of Computation and Communication: the 6th International Conference, ICCASA 2017, and the 3rd International Conference, ICTCC 2017, Tam Ky, Vietnam, November 23-24, 2017, Proceedings 6 (pp. 184-194). Springer International Publishing.
  • Tran, H. M. T., Anvari, F., & Richards, D. (2018). Holistic Personas for Designers of a Context-Aware Accounting Information Systems e-Learning Application. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Context-aware Systems and Applications, 4(14), e4-e4. 
  • Tran, H. M. T., & Anvari, F. (2016). A five-dimensional requirements elicitation framework for e-Learning systems. International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering, 6(3), 185.
  • Tran, H. M. T., & Anvari, F. (2013). The Five‑dimensional Reflective Cycle Framework for Designing Financial Information Management Systems Courses. Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, 16(3), pp. 241-254.
  • Tran, H. M. T., & Anvari, F. (2013). How reflective professionals design and evaluate financial information management systems courses. At the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Management and Evaluation ICIME, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, May 13-14, 2013, Proceedings of the 4th ICIME (pp. 263-271).