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Vietnamese Language, Education and Change In and Outside Vietnam
Vietnam at its initial announcement of independence, in 1945, had a
remarkably high rate of illiteracy. The many wars that followed have contributed
to slow down the government effort in delivering literacy education to its citizens.
Yet, from the 1980s, Doi Moi marked the big shift in politics, economic policies, as
well as educational practices. The privatization of economic factors in Doi Moi went
with the liberation of social activities in other cultural fields. The late 1980s and
1990s saw the booming education market, which helped to increase the rate of
literacy. Subsequently, in the second decade of twenty-first century, there has been
another intensive innovation of education policies on literacy education, responding
to increasing social and economic globalization
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