LEARNING AND TEACHING ENGLISH AT THE PEOPLE’S POLICE UNIVERSITY: A CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVEA

Over the years, a great deal of researches studies about teaching and learning influenced by the culture has been carried out. And the researchers found out certain theoretical points for English teaching and learning. According to these theoretical points, many nations in the world want to reform their systems of education. However, some are not successful because of their own contexts, the combination between the process of learning and teaching and the way to operate them at many different levels. This paper is about EFL class at The People’s Police University, Ho Chi Minh City, the complex, systemic nature of the process of learning and teaching influenced, and the two different significant and long-history systems of education in the world: Western education and Traditional East Asian education.