Vi & Alex Before Bed

Vi & Alex Before Bed

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Vi & Alex Before Bed episodes

  • #06 - Online dating during the pandemic

    [ 90% English - 10% Vietnamese ] Vi had an idea to talk about dating AGAIN after reading an article in The Economist. The article is about how online dating changed through the pandemic. AGAIN because intensive and sensitive topics about dating were the reason led to the Lost Episode before.  This time, the talk got smoother and the content is more appropriate to share publicly. We hope you enjoy our weird thoughts about online dating and real-life dating in general. 

    Reference: Virtual dating. (2020, May). Fever when you hold me tight. The Economist, 45-46.

    23 min
  • #05 - Our years abroad
    [ 90% English - 9.5% Vietnamese - 0.5% Korean ] In this episode, we talk about our years living and studying abroad. As a multi-cultural couple, we are always happy to expose to different languages and foreign experience. We think that we will continue to explore new countries in the near future but this time will be together. 
    Reference: López-Moreno, C. (2017). The year abroad: understanding the employability skills of the Global Graduate. In C. Álvarez-Mayo, A. Gallagher-Brett, & F. Michel (Eds), Innovative language teaching and learning at university: enhancing employability (pp. 21-28). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2017. innoconf2016.651
    24 min
  • #04 - The spread of fake news and rumors
    [ 100% English ] In this episode, we talked about a research article done by MIT. It’s about the spread of false news on Twitter. As always, we added some off-topic discussion like how Twitter got popular, using Twitter in school... The reason Vi and Alex tackled this topic was because Vi heard some terrible rumors about her. Talking about this helps her confront her disappointment. 
    Reference: Vosoughi, S., Roy, D., & Aral, S. (2018). The spread of true and false news online. Science, 359(6380), 1146. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9559
    22 min
  • #03 - Working with technology

    [ 100% English ] In this episode, we talked about one of the most important elements of our lives: technology. We are both working in technology industry even though their original background was not related to IT. Let's start with what quality a teacher needs to apply technology in school better. 

    References:

    Becker, H.J. (2000). How Exemplary Computer-Using Teachers Differ From Other Teachers: Implications for Realizing the Potential of Computers in Schools. Journal of Research on Computing in Education. 26. 10.1080/08886504.1994.10782093. 


    21 min
  • #02 - Baby tomatoes
    [ 70% English - 30% Vietnamese ] In this episode, we have no articles or research to talk about. It's free-talk about our baby tomatoes.
    16 min
  • [Lost] #01
    [ 60% English - 40% Vietnamese ] This is the first lost episode which we decided not to share its content. However, we want to save funny and heart touching moments of the process. In this lost episode, Alex tried to be the host when Vi went emotional.
    4 min
  • #01 - Embrace your accent

    [ 70% English - 30% Vietnamese ] As a Vietnamese, Vi sometimes feels unconfident that her speaking English accent will get judged. She is practicing to accept her accent as a part of her true self. 

    References: 

    Norman, J. (2017). Student’s Self-perceived English Accent and Its Impact on Their Communicative Competence and Speaking Confidence : An Empirical Study Among Students Taking English 6 in Upper-Secondary School (Dissertation). Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-25351


    25 min

About Vi & Alex Before Bed

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These are conversations (in English and sometimes in Vietnamese) before bed of a couple from Vancouver, Canada. We are both very talkative and argumentative. We laugh, talk about life, and motivate each other every day. Before bed is not the best time for high-energy conversation though. However, it is the best time for emotional moment and vulnerable thinking about what happened during the day. These nice thoughts are worth sharing, we hope.