SOLUTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF INTEGRATING SOFT SKILLS INTO TEACHING SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE AT TRA VINH UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This article analyzes essential conditions for integrating soft skills into teaching specialized knowledge. The data was surveyed on 529 college and university level students from  1st to 4th year of five faculties at Tra Vinh University. The results show that there are 401 students (76%) agreing that the number of a soft skills class with 15 to 25 students is appropriate; Besides, in order to organize students’ interest in learning soft skills and  learning effectively, teachers need to combine many methods and means: lectures, projectors, group activities,  pictures, photos, tables (rate of 46%) and organized outdoor classes account for 47%; teaching methods and teaching equipments relatively meet students’ learning needs.