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This book will be the first comprehensive edited book and proceeding of our one-year ViCoP (Vietnamese community of practice) project, gathering local and international school leaders and researchers who work on Vietnamese educational topics. It examines and introduces an alternative narrative to depict the transformations of Vietnamese education, specifically in different areas of inquiry in English language education. English education lays a foundation for further development of human resource capacity, global collaboration, and opening doors for Vietnamese to stay competitive and integrated into the world complexes around them. It systematizes the conceptualization of “glocalization” generated by our think tank and its implementation, making a strong case to represent the spirits of Vietnamese culture and peoples underlying Vietnamese sustained engagement and partnership opportunities in a direct response to globalization and internationalization. Vietnam educational visionaries and policymakers have suggested radical changes to revolutionize the education system to equip the next generations for 21st century internationalized skill sets and beyond. Such transformation of the Vietnamese education system can be seen in many fronts, not only from the micro-level of classroom instruction, teacher-student interactional dynamics, teaching and learning materials, and learner assessment. The book reports drastic adoptions and adaptations of ideologies and technologies from external sources of references and foreign investments at the macro level of curriculum design, administration and planning, and policymaking, thus posing valuable lessons for other developing countries.