Abstract

Along with the process of integration, openness and deep globalization, Vietnamese society has undergone rapid, strong and comprehensive changes in many fields, including literature. That is demonstrated through the emergence of a number of new genres of folk literature, including new idioms and proverbs. This reality raises the requirement of teaching them to foreigners who are learning Vietnamese. This article presents the concept, identification and role of modern folk literature genres such as modern idioms and proverbs and proposes some skills and methods of teaching this genre to foreign students so that they can understand and use this genre correctly, thereby helping foreign students to see the movement of Vietnamese society in the Doi Moi period. This is a necessary requirement to meet the social communication needs of foreign students with Vietnamese people and this also requires Vietnamese language teachers to have deep and broad cultural and social knowledge.

Keywords: Literature, genre, idiom, proverb, modern, folk, teach, Vietnamese, foreigners, students.