Social family factors affecting students' achievements of School of Foreign Languages at Tra Vinh University

Huynh Trang Nguyen1,
1 Tra Vinh University, Vietnam

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By studying literature review and survey, the paper provides the real situation and the relationship between English majors’ academic achievements and social family factors at Tra Vinh University. The results revealed that these factors including family, career and educational background of parents affected students’ academic achievements.

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