Comparing the Vietnamese student's outcomes, motivations...

Although service learning (SL) is a common educational practice in many international universities, in Vietnam, it is still a new concept. Some universities in Vietnam already offer the service learning, but as an optional course, therefore only a few students, who already aware the benefits of this kind of educational practice, chose the course. However, the attitudes and perception of general students toward SL is underresearched. This study, for the first time, integrating the SL in news writing course, a mandatory subject for Public Relations students program at UEF, a university in Vietnam.

Keywords: Service learning, Vietnam, writing course, comparison, students, UEF.

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