School From reading books to building vocabulary banks on specific topics more

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This paper aims at (1) introducing part of a reading project carried out at a high school in Vietnam and (2) investigating students’ interest in reading during the project. The project is supposed to cover 4 topics, and each topic takes 6 weeks to be explored. This paper focuses on the topic of Lunar New Year (the biggest traditional festival in Vietnam). 45 students of grade 11 participated in the project from January to mid-February 2023. They were divided into five groups. Each group was given a collection of literary works and they themselves chose three articles about Lunar New Year to read, then picked up words/ phrases relating to the topic to build a vocabulary bank and made a short video clip to present the topic. Data collected from the survey and interviews with students showed that they really developed their interest in reading during the project.