Min Pham

Teaching Strengths

English language education, English-medium instruction, Content and Language Integrated Learning

Dr Min Pham

Senior Lecturer

School of Education

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

I am a senior lecturer working for UniSA Education Futures. I coordinate and teach a number of courses in Foundation, Undergraduate, and Postgraduate programs, and supervise honour and PhD students in English language and English medium education. I have worked for several higher education and research institutions in Vietnam, the United States, Singapore and Australia.
A teaching-focused academic dedicated to education equity, social just and student excellence, I am honoured to receive several awards: Teacher of the Year - Students Nominated (2024), Australian Award for University Teaching (AAUT 2023), Senior Fellow Higher Education Advance (SFHEA 2023), UniSA Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2022), UniSA Education Futures Staff Excellence Award (2022), and UniSA Student Engagement and Equity (Academic) Staff Recognition Award (2017).
My current research interest focuses on English as additional language or dialect (EALD), English medium education (EME) and content and language integrated learning (CLIL). I am a lead investigator and investigator of a number of national and international research projects in English language teaching and English medium education.

   

My current research focus: English Medium Education (EME), English as Additional Language or Dialect (EALD) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). 

Year Citation
2025 Pham, M., Barnett, J., Arta, B., Jalaluddin, J., Jazadi, I., & Minh, N. T. H. (2025). University student learning strategies in English medium instruction: an exploratory study in Indonesia and Vietnam. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, online, 1-20.
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2025 Pham, M., Tran, K., & Barnett, J. (2025). Student preferences and practices regarding first language use in English medium education: a scoping review across Southeast Asian universities. Higher Education, online, 1-18.
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2023 Pham, M., Nguyen, V. N., Hoang, H., Nguyen, T. T. H., Le, D. H., & Barnett, J. (2023). Internationalisation and English medium education in Vietnamese universities: professional role transformation among English language lecturers. Research in Comparative and International Education, 18(2), 292-316.
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2022 Pham, M. (2022). Enabling the enablers: professional development for peer leaders to enhance the learning experience of enabling education students. Journal of Peer Learning, 15(2), 4-16.
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2022 Heugh, K., French, M., Arya, V., Pham, M., Tudini, V., Billinghurst, N., . . . Viljoen, J. M. (2022). Multilingualism, translanguaging and transknowledging: Translation technology in EMI higher education. Aila Review, 35(1), 89-127.
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2018 Doan, N., Pham, T., Pham, M., & Tran, K. (2018). English as an international language in Viet Nam: history and development. Asian Englishes, 20(2), 106-121.
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2016 Pham, V. M. (2016). Mapping China's approach to energy cooperation: the primacy of national interest. Vietnam Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2(2), 175-193.
2015 Pham, M. V. (2015). Vietnam to continue playing the diplomatic field. East Asia Forum, online, 1.
2014 Pham, M. V. (2014). Vietnam and the South China sea dispute: sovereign claim energy security and joint development agreement. Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, 1(2), 51-69.
2009 Pham, V. M. (2009). East Asian regionalism from neo-realist perspective. VNU Journal of Science, Social Sciences and Humanities, 25(5E), 18-23.

Year Citation
2024 Hattam, S., Hattam, R., Weiler, T., King, S., Abi Abdallah, M., Bilic, S., . . . Wilson, N. (2024). Toward a theory of critical enabling pedagogy for Australian higher education. In S. Hattam, R. Hattam, T. Weiler, & S. King (Eds.), Source details - Title: Enabling pedagogy and action research in higher education (pp. 285-317). US: DIO Press Inc.
2024 Pham, M., & Ulpen, T. (2024). It's just the language, not my intelligence. In S. Hattam, R. Hattam, T. Weiler, & S. King (Eds.), Source details - Title: Enabling Pedagogy and Action Research in Higher Education (pp. 187-209). US: DIO Press Inc.
2022 Barnett, J., & Pham, M. (2022). Perspectives on english medium instruction practices in Vietnamese universities: introduction. In M. Pham, & J. Barrett (Eds.), Source details - Title: English Medium Instruction Practices in Vietnamese Universities: Institutional, Practitioner and Student Perspective (Vol. 68, pp. 1-11). Singapore: Springer Nature.
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2022 Pham, M., & Barnett, J. (2022). From English Medium Instruction to english medium education: a forward direction for Vietnamese Universities. In M. Pham, & J. Barrett (Eds.), Source details - Title: English Medium Instruction Practices in Vietnamese Universities: Institutional, Practitioner and Student Perspectives (Vol. 68, pp. 233-248). Singapore: Springer Nature.
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2022 Pham, M. (2022). Road-mapping english-medium instruction in Vietnamese Universities: the divergence of agency. In M. Pham, & J. Barnett (Eds.), Source details - Title: English Medium Instruction Practices in Vietnamese Universities: Institutional, Practitioner and Student Perspectives (Vol. 68, pp. 15-39). Singapore: Springer Nature.
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2022 Pham, M. (2022). Lecturers' perspectives on the use of L1 in Vietnamese undergraduate English-Medium courses: an uneasy acquiescence. In M. Pham, & J. Barrett (Eds.), Source details - Title: English Medium Instruction Practices in Vietnamese Universities: Institutional, Practitioner and Student Perspectives (Vol. 68, pp. 123-136). Singapore: Springer Nature.
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2020 Min, P., & Doan, B. N. (2020). English as a medium of Instruction (EMI) in Vietnamese universities: policies of encouragement and pedagogies of assumption. In P. LH, & D. BN (Eds.), Source details - Title: Higher Education in Market-Oriented Socialist Vietnam: New Players, Discourses, and Practices (pp. 261-282). Switzerland: Palgrave Mamillan.
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2018 Morris Jung, J., & Pham, M. V. (2018). Anti-Chinese protest in Vietnam: complex conjunctures of resource governance, geopolitics and state-society deadlock. In J. Morris-Jung (Ed.), Source details - Title: In China's backyard: policies and politics of Chinese resource investments in Southeast Asia (pp. 229-255). Singapore: ISEAS Publishing.

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