ASSIGNMENT ON TRANSLATION EDUCATION DECLARATION title TRANSLATION IN TOURISM

HA NOI OPEN UNIVERSITY
Centre For E-learning
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ASSIGNMENT ON TRANSLATION
EDUCATION

Supervisor: DAU THI LE HIEU.MA
Student: NGO THI ANH NGOC
Date of birth: February 8th, 1996
Course: F55

HA NOI, 2018

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DECLARATION
Title: TRANSLATION IN TOURISM
I certify that no part of the above report has been copied or reproduced
by me from any other’s work without acknowledgement and that the report is
originally written by me under strict guidance of my supervisor.
Ha Noi city, 25th October, 2018
Student
signature

NGO THI ANH NGOC

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Supervisor
signature

DAU THI LE HIEU

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In fact, there is no success without associated with support, help more
or less whether directly or indirectly by others. During the period, from the
start of the study in university I have received a lot of attention and help from
teachers, family and friends. This paper is impossible without close assistance
from all the instructors and lecturers of EHOU.
My deep thanks to go to Ms. Dau Thi Le Hieu, who have given me
useful explanation and devoted guidance through the period when I compiled
materials and develop the report.
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all the teachers in EHOU
for their useful lessons during my studying.
Last but far from the least, my thanks presentes to Cleverlearn English
Center-Trung Hoa, my family and all of my friends for their encouragement,
inspiration in the process of completing this paper.
Ha Noi, October 2018
Ngo Thi Anh Ngoc

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DECLARATION.......................................................................................................i
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......................................................................................ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS.........................................................................................iii
PART A: INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................1
1. Rationale............................................................................................................1
2. Aims of the assignment......................................................................................1
3. Scope of the assignment.....................................................................................1
4. Methods of the assignment.................................................................................2
5. Company Background........................................................................................2
5.1 The Introduction...........................................................................................2
5.2 History and development..............................................................................2
5.3 Function and areas of business......................................................................3
PART B: DEVELOPMENT......................................................................................4
CHAPTER 1 THE ORETICAL BACKGROUND: TRANSLATION......................4
1.1 Definition of translation:..................................................................................4
1.2 Types of translation..........................................................................................5
1.2.1 Literal translation.......................................................................................5
1.2.2 Word-for-word translation.........................................................................5
1.2.4 Free translation..........................................................................................6
1.2.5 Semantic translation...................................................................................6
1.2.6 Idiomatic translation..................................................................................6
1.2.7 Communicative translation........................................................................7
1.3 Definition of employment................................................................................7
PART B: DEVELOPMENT......................................................................................9

CHAPTER 2 THE TRANSLATED TEXTS.............................................................9
2.1 Translated texts of the two articles (From English into Vietnamese)...............9
2.1.1 Article 1: Women’s housework should be part of GDP: researchers.........9
2.1.2 Article 2: Seasonal workers flock to cities as Tet approaches..................16

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2.2 Translated texts of the two articles (From Vietnamese into English).............23
2.2.1 Article 3: Những công việc thú vị ở Việt Nam........................................23
2.2.2 Article 4: Nhiều học sinh nghĩ rằng các trường dạy nghề mang lại nhiều
cơ hội việc làm..................................................................................................30
CHAPTER 3 COMMENT ON TRANSLATION...................................................36
3.1 Genre of text...................................................................................................36
3.2 The difficulties and convinience met during the translation...........................36
3.3 Knowledge about translated field (Employment)...........................................36
PART C: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION.......................................39
REFERENCES........................................................................................................40

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PART A: INTRODUCTION
1. Rationale
Employment is one of the most respected topics in modern society. There
are a number of issues related to employment, which gets attention from
many economists and market analysts. As a result, translations related to
employment and its issues are becoming essential to people, especially
student who are graduating. Translations on employment always provide
readers with useful information about the labor market and employment
trends of countries all around the world. As a student of English and have a
passion for translations, I find out that it is interesting when translating
employment articles from English language into Vietnamese and vice versa.
That is the reason why I choose this, the topic of “translation in employment”.
2. Aims of the assignment
The study on translation in tourism aims to figure out an overview on
translation strategies employed in translation of employment.
 Collecting and presenting news from Vietnamese into English and vice
versa
 Preliminary analyzing translation news
 Comment on the translation of the company
3. Scope of the assignment
Learning and cultivating knowledge in all aspects of life is becoming
increasingly important to people. Especially strengthening the knowledge
related to society such as culture, tradition and employment around the world
is an essential trend for each person. Therefore, due to limitation of my
knowledge and time, my study could not cover all of the aspects of this
theme. I just only translate some specific news from English into Vietnamese
and vice versa then express some language phenomena and comments.
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4. Methods of the assignment
In order to achieve the successful and effective study, I based on various
kinds of resources specialized as following:
 Supervisor consultation
 Cleverlearn English Center’s consultation
 Basing on my experiences on tourism
 Searching documents and the sources of information such as on the
internet, reference books, newspapers, etc
5. Company Background
5.1 The Introduction
Full name: Cleverlearn English Center-Trung Hoa (Cleverlearn Inc)
Adress: No. 15, Lane 30 Nguyen Thi Dinh, Nhan Chinh, Hanoi
Tel: (+084) 02432216188
Email:
Website:
5.2 History and development
Cleverlearn English Center - Trung Hoa established in October 26 th 2015, has
representative offices in Hanoi city. The headquarter was formerly located at
DC building, 144 Doi Can, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi.
Cleverlearn English Center - Trung Hoa is with nearly 3 years of
development, Cleverlearn English Center - Trung Hoa has become one of the
most reputable English teaching centers, particularly in teaching English for
children in Hanoi. They want to build a professional and friendly educational
environment to children in practicing their English skills and provide them
with the confidence to integrate in the global community.

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5.3 Function and areas of business
 Achieve and enhance customer satisfaction by providing prestigious
courses, offer customer the highest efficiency and thoughtful aftersales service.
 Regularly train managers and staff in order to meet the job
requirements and improve the company’s competitiveness.
 Create a sound and fair work environment so that staff and teachers are
able to fully utilize and optimize their full potential and push their
career forward.
 Ensure adequate resources to maintain and constantly enhance the
Quality management systems.

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PART B: DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 1 THE ORETICAL BACKGROUND: TRANSLATION
1.1 Definition of translation:
Translation has a number of definitions and concepts that are developing by
lots of famous linguistic of translation.

Translation is to render the meaning of a text into another language in
the way that the author intended the text.
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language
text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting
undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of
written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of
Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 BCE) into Southwest Asian languages of the second
millennium BCE.
Translation is the expression in another language (target language) of
what has been expressed in one language (source language), preserving
semantic and stylistic equivalencies. [By Roger T. Bell]
Translation is the replacement of a representation of a text in one
language by a representation of an equivalent text in second language [By
Roger T. Bell]
Translation is a type of speech activity, aimed at transmitting a
message, doubling the components of communication in those cases, when
there is a discrepancy between codes used by the sender and the receiver of
the message [R. K. Minyar-Beloruchev, 1980].
Translation by dictionary definition, consists of changing from one
state or form to another, to turn into one’s own or another’s language [The
Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 1974]

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Translation is rendering a written text into another language in a way

that the author intended the text [By Bui Tien Bao- Hanoi National
University]
Translation means to precisely and completely express by means of
one language the things that had been expressed earlier by the means of
another language [A. V. Fedorov, 2002]
Translation is translating consists in reporducing in the receptor
language the closest natural equivalent of the source language message [Nida
and Taber, 1982]
Translation is a creative intellectual activity, denoting the transmitting
of information from a source language into a target language [Y. P. Solodub,
2005]
1.2 Types of translation
1.2.1 Literal translation
This type of translation is form-based. It follows the syntactic structures of the
SL and preserves the semantic equivalence between SL and TL textual
segments. There is a little consideration for the translation situation of
language context.
E.g: “I love you”
“Tôi yêu em”
1.2.2 Word-for-word translation
This type of translation is at the extreme of literal translation and also known
as interlinear translation since it follows strictly the word order of the SL. In a
typical interlinear translation, the exact replica in the TL will replace each
word in the SL.
E.g: “What is your name?”
“Tên bạn là gì?”

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1.2.3 Faithful translation
Also called modified literal translation. This type of translation transfers the
grammatical structures and cultural words of the SL into the TL. It attempts to
be completely faithful to the intention and the text-realization of the SL
writer. Changes are made only to avoid complete nonsense in the TL.
E.g: “This umbrella is blue”
“Cái ô này màu xanh”
1.2.4 Free translation
This type of translation is meaning-based. There is only the global
correspondence between the textual units of the ST and those of the TT. Free
translation may allow a total creativity of the translator. The context of
language, translation situation, and translation purpose and translation ship
are among essential considerations for this kind of translation.
E.g: “Hi. How is going?”
“Chào. Dạo này thế nào rồi?”
1.2.5 Semantic translation
This type of translation is at the far end of literal translation. It starts to take
into account the/aesthetic value, readership and neutrality of meaning thought
it is yet to use the cultural equivalents. It is more flexible than faithful
translation and allows for the translator’s creativity.
E.g: “Keep off the grass”
“Không dẫm nên cỏ”
1.2.6 Idiomatic translation
This translation is always culturally bound. It… for the already existed and
well-formed equivalents is the TL to replace the text in the SL. The result is
that the translation does not sound a translation at all but an originally

written/spoken piece of SL.

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E.g: “Doing nothing is doing ill”
“Nhàn cư vi bất thiện”
1.2.7 Communicative translation
Rendering the exact contextual meaning of the original in such away that both
context and language are readily acceptable and comprehensible to the
readership. Using standard expression for an equivalent target culture
situation.
Eg: “It was conducted in nine cities and provinces in Vietnam from January to
June this year.”
“Nó đã được tiến hành tại chín thành phố và tỉnh tại Việt Nam từ tháng một
đến tháng sáu năm nay.”
1.3 Definition of employment
Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a
contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation,
for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the
employer and the other is the employee [Dakin, Stephen; Armstrong, J. Scott
1989]
Employment is a contract in which one person, the employee, agrees
to perform work for another, the employer.
Employment means only where one man is set to work to earn money.
A man may employ himself to earn profits in many ways [Justice Dennan,

1886]
Employment there must be control by the employer over the employee
- the right to give the employee instructions as to what he is to do [Justice
Gardiner, 1925].
Largely read, employment might refer to work, or an activity in which
a person receives valuable consideration.... More narrowly read employment

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may refer to the position of a person in the service of another or performance
of services under a contract of service.... [Justice Saunders of the British
Columbia Court of Appeal, 2001]
Employment as "... a professional engagement or otherwise under a
contract for services... any trade, business, profession, office or vocation...
any relationship whereby one person personally does work or performs
services for another..." [United Kingdom Employment Agencies Act, 1973]
By employment is meant an engagement of a person in some
occupation, business, trade or profession, etc. The nation of desiring to be
employment can be explained by taking three established facts:
 Working hours per day in an established firm are, say, seven
and a health man has the capacity to work for nine hour, it cannot
be said that the man is unemployed for two hours a day.
 Wage rate in a particular occupation is $25 per day and a certain
man demand $40 per day, and then he would not be able to get
employment.

 A man’s state of health if a man is sick and is unable to work,
he cannot be included in the rank of the unemployed.

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PART B: DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 2 THE TRANSLATED TEXTS
2.1 Translated texts of the two articles (From English into Vietnamese)
2.1.1 Article 1: Women’s housework should be part of GDP: researchers
a. Translated text
Women’s housework should be part of GDP: researchers
Theo các nhà nghiên cứu công việc nội trợ của phụ nữ nên là một phần của
GDP
Vietnamese women spend over five Phụ nữ Việt Nam dành ra hơn 5 tiếng
hours doing so-called “no-name” để làm những công việc "không tên"
work such as cooking, cleaning and ví dụ như nấu ăn, dọn dẹp,chăm sóc
childcare - about 2-2.5 hours more con cái, nhiều hơn nam giời khoảng
than men do.

2-2,5 tiếng.

“No-name” work is time consuming, Những việc "Không tên" tiêu tốn
repetitive and often intensive, but is nhiều thời gian, lặp đi lặp lại và
not

recognised,

nor

paid,

nor nhiều, nhưng lại không được công

respected by family members

nhận, cũng không được trả tiền, hay
được các thành viên gia đình tơn
trọng.

This is one of the findings of the
Unpaid Care Work Research that Đây là một trong những phát hiện của
analysed the roles and contribution of nhóm Nghiên cứu về những cơng
women through unpaid care work việc không được trả lương nhằm phân
(UCW), which was presented on tích vai trị và đóng góp của người
September 29 in Hanoi by the phụ nữ thông qua những việc làm
Department of Gender Equality under không lương (viết tắt là UCW), được
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the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and trình bày vào ngày 29 tháng 9 tại Hà
Social Affairs, in cooperation with Nội do phịng Bình Đẳng Giới thuộc

ActionAid Vietnam.

Bộ Lao động, Thương binh và Xã
hội, phối hợp với tổ chức ActionAid

“No-name” work is time consuming,
repetitive and often intensive, but is
not

recognised,

nor

paid,

nor

respected by family members, the
community and women themselves,
according to the initial research
findings.
Hoang

Việt Nam.
Theo kết quả nghiên cứu ban đầu:
Những việc "Không tên" tiêu tốn
nhiều thời gian, lặp đi lặp lại nhiều,
nhưng lại không được công nhận,
cũng không được trả tiền, hay được
các thành viên gia đình, cộng đồng và

chính bản thân những người phụ nữ

Phuong

Thao,

Country

Director of ActionAid Vietnam, said
that gender inequality was one of the
root causes of poverty and injustice.
As many as 67 percent of people
living in poverty worldwide are
women. Therefore, unless UCW is

khác tơn trọng.
Bà Hồng Phương Thảo-giám đốc chi
nhánh của ActionAid tại Việt Nam
cho rằng bất bình đẳng giới là một
trong những nguyên nhân gốc rễ của
nghèo đói và bất cơng.

shared and acknowledged, more and Bà nói: Có đến 67 phần trăm những
more women will be poor, not having người sống trong nghèo đói trên tồn
time for paid work or education, she thế giới là phụ nữ. Vì vậy, trừ khi
said.
UCW được chia sẻ và thừa nhận, thì
sẽ có ngày càng nhiều phụ nữ rơi vào
đói nghèo, khơng có thời gian dành
cho những công việc được trả tiền

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hoặc học hành.
“It will not only impact women but
the next generation also. Inequality Bà nói thêm: "Điều này sẽ không chỉ
can only be resolved if the solutions ảnh hưởng đến người phụ nữ mà còn
emerge from the family,” she said.

cả các thế hệ tiếp theo. Bất bình đẳng
chỉ có thể được giải quyết nếu các

The research is part of a project

giải pháp thốt ra khỏi gia đình"

entitled “Women’s Rights: Preventing Nghiên cứu này là một phần của một
Gender-based
Violence
and dự án mang tên "Quyền của phụ nữ:
Promoting Women’s Participation in Phòng chống bạo lực trên cơ sở giới
Politics”. It is sponsored by Irish Aid tính và thúc đẩy sự tham gia của phụ
and
ActionAid
Vietnam

and nữ trong chính trị". Được tài trợ bởi
implemented in different areas of Irish Aid và ActionAid Việt Nam và
Vietnam. It was conducted in nine được triển khai tại nhiều vùng khác
cities and provinces in Vietnam from nhau của Việt Nam. Chương trình đã
January to June this year.
được tiến hành tại chín thành phố và
tỉnh tại Việt Nam từ tháng một đến
According to a survey by the Swiss
Government, if UCW in households
is properly calculated, it would
account for up to 40 percent of
Switzerland’s

Gross

Domestic

Product (GDP). Research in the US
state of Massachusetts estimated that
if taken into account, UCW would
increase the state’s GDP from 352

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tháng sáu năm nay.
Theo một cuộc khảo sát được thực
hiện bởi chính phủ Thụy Sĩ, nếu
UCW tính đúng trong các hộ gia
đình, thì nó sẽ chiếm đến 40 phần
trăm của tổng sản phẩm quốc nội của

Thụy Sĩ (GDP). Nghiên cứu ở bang
Massachusetts ước tính rằng nếu đưa
vào tài khoản, UCW sẽ làm tăng GDP
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billion USD to 504 billion USD, của Bang từ 352 tỷ USD lên 504 tỷ
accounting for nearly 30 percent of USD, chiếm gần 30 phần trăm giá trị
the value of goods and services hàng hóa và dịch vụ được sản xuất tại
produced in the State.

Bang.

With five hours of work per day,
work-age Với năm giờ làm việc mỗi ngày, 22
women spend 110 million hours on triệu phụ nữ Việt Nam đang trong độ
UCW, equal to over 13 million tuổi làm việc đã dành ra 110 triệu giờ
cho UCW (những công việc không
working days.
Vietnam’s

22

million

được trả lương), tương đương hơn 13
triệu ngày làm việc.
At an average of 100,000-150,000

VND (4.4-6.6 USD ) per day, the Tính trung bình là 100.000-150.000
value of the unrecorded UCW by đồng (4,4-6,6 USD) mỗi ngày, giá trị
women is more than 20 percent of của UCW không được ghi nhận là
Vietnam’s GDP last year, which was hơn 20 phần trăm của GDP của Việt
about 41 billion USD.

Nam vào năm ngoái, tức khoảng 41
tỷ USD.

The research recommends that the
Government consider UCW’s value Nghiên cứu khuyến nghị chính phủ
as an indicator for GDP calculation.

nên xem xét giá trị của UCW như
một chỉ số để tính GDP.

Pham Ngoc Tien, Director of the
Gender Equality Department, said, “If Ông Phạm Ngọc Tiến, Giám đốc Vụ
Vietnamese women’s contribution is Bình đẳng giới cho biết "Nếu đóng
well acknowledged, there will be góp của phụ nữ Việt Nam được công

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significant changes in our society nhận đúng mức, sẽ có những thay đổi
regarding equality between men and đáng kể trong xã hội của chúng ta liên

women, which will inevitably lead to quan đến bình đẳng giữa nam giới và
the reallocation and sharing of UCW phụ nữ, điều này chắc chắn sẽ dẫn
in a more appropriate way.”

đến việc tái phân bổ và chia sẻ UCW
theo một cách thích hợp hơn ".

This would be a practical way to
improve the economic situation and Đây sẽ là một cách thiết thực để cải
quality of life for women, he said.

thiện tình hình kinh tế và chất lượng
cuộc sống cho phụ nữ, ơng nói.

It is crucially important for the
Government to consider how to Việc Chính phủ xem xét vấn đề này
incorporate

UCW

calculations

and

in

GDP là hết sức quan trọng, làm thế nào để

socio-economic kết hợp UCW vào tính tốn GDP và

policy development, according to the chính sách phát triển kinh tế-xã hội,
research.

theo các nghiên cứu.

b. Analysis
In this article, there are some main languages phenomena such as references
and reiteration use as cohesive devices in the text. The below analysis can
show it clearly:

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 Reference
 Personal reference
Personal reference is means of the personal pronouns, progressive pronouns
(mine, yours, etc) and possessive identifiers (my, your, etc.)
Eg1: This is one of the findings of the Unpaid Care Work Research that
analysed the roles and contribution of women through unpaid care work
(UCW),[...]The research is part of a project entitled “Women’s Rights:
Preventing Gender-based Violence and Promoting Women’s Participation in
Politics”.
“The research” refers back “the Unpaid Care Work Research”
Eg2: “The research is part of a project entitled “Women’s Rights: Preventing
Gender-based Violence and Promoting Women’s Participation in Politics”. It
is sponsored by Irish Aid and ActionAid Vietnam and implemented in different

areas of Vietnam. It was conducted in nine cities and provinces in Vietnam
from January to June this year.”
In the third sentence, “It” refers back to “a project entitled “Women’s Rights:
Preventing Gender-based Violence and Promoting Women’s Participation in
Politics”
Eg3: Pham Ngoc Tien, Director of the Gender Equality Department, said, “If
Vietnamese women’s contribution is well acknowledged, there will be
significant changes in our society regarding equality between men and
women, which will inevitably lead to the reallocation and sharing of UCW in
a more appropriate way.”
The word “which” involve refers back into the whole sentence before.
 Reiteration
Because this article is about “Women’s housework should be part of GDP:
researchers" , it is clear that some words such as Women, housework,

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research are repeated many times throughout the text to emphasize the
main topic as well as the author’s idea.
 Cultural impacts and direction of handling translation skills
There are some differences between two cultures of English and
Vietnamese. They affect the progress of translation and require the
translator to help basic and necessary skills to deal with. Some example is
the difference in pronouns.
Eg1: This is one of the findings of the Unpaid Care Work Research that

analysed the roles and contribution of women through unpaid care work
(UCW), which was presented on September 29 in Hanoi by the Department
of Gender Equality under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social
Affairs, in cooperation with ActionAid Vietnam.
In this sentence, “the Department of Gender Equality under the Ministry of
Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs” translates into “phịng Bình Đẳng Giới
thuộc Bộ Lao động, Thương binh và Xã hội”
Eg2: Hoang Phuong Thao, Country Director of ActionAid Vietnam, said
that gender inequality was one of the root causes of poverty and injustice.
“Hoang Phuong Thao, Country Director of ActionAid Vietnam” is
translated to “Bà Hoàng Phương Thảo-giám đốc chi nhánh của ActionAid
tại Việt Nam”
Eg3: Pham Ngoc Tien, Director of the Gender Equality Department, said,
“If Vietnamese women’s contribution is well acknowledged, there will be
significant changes in our society regarding equality between men and
women, which will inevitably lead to the reallocation and sharing of UCW
in a more appropriate way.”

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In this sentence, “Pham Ngoc Tien, Director of the Gender Equality
Department” which translates to “Ông Phạm Ngọc Tiến, Giám đốc Vụ Bình
đẳng giới”.
2.1.2 Article 2: Seasonal workers flock to cities as Tet approaches
a. Translated text

Seasonal workers flock to cities as Tet approaches
Lao động thời vụ đổ về các thành phố vì Tết đang đến gần
Tet will arrive in the next month so Tết sẽ đến trong vòng một tháng tới
foreseeing the increasing demand for vì vậy dự đốn về nhu cầu tăng việc
employment; many rural labourers are làm, nhiều người lao động ngoại
flocking into cities, including Ha Noi thành đang đổ xô vào những thành
to work as seasonal labourers. Le Thi phố, bao gồm cả Hà nội để làm
Tham, a 40-year-old woman, was những công việc thời vụ. Chị Lê Thị
employed to pluck leaves of peach Thậm, một người phụ nữ 40 tuổi, đã
trees at a garden in the foot of Nhat được thuê để làm lặt lá cho những
Tan Bridge. The woman, from the cây đào tại một vườn ở cuối Cầu
northern province of Hung Yen, said Nhật Tân. Người phụ nữ đến từ miền
usually at the end of the year, she and Bắc tỉnh Hưng Yên nói rằng thường
her husband come to the city to work.

thường cuối năm, cô và chồng đến
thành phố để làm việc.

Her husband works as a stevedore at
Long Bien Market and as a xe om
(motorbike driver) in his spare time.
Tham usually sits at Nhat Tan Road
to wait for work. “My new job of
plucking leaves from peach trees is

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Chồng của chị làm việc như một công
nhân bốc vác tại chợ Long Biên và lái
xe ôm trong khoảng thời gian rảnh.

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easy but the wage is lower than Chị Thậm thường ngồi tại đường
previous jobs I’ve had,” Tham said.

Nhật Tân để đợi việc.Chị Thậm nói:
"Cơng việc mới của tơi là lặt lá

“My employer provides free meals những cây đào thì khá nhẹ nhàng
and accommodation for me, and pays nhưng lương thấp hơn những công
VND200.000 (US$9) per day. The việc bán thời gian tơi đã có"
wage

will

be

higher,

nearly

VND300.000 a day in the days near Người chủ tôi bao ăn và chỗ ở cho
Tet if I receive more work carrying tôi, và trả 200.000 VNĐ/1 ngày. Tiền
peach branches for sale at market.”

lương sẽ cao hơn, gần 300.00 ngàn

VNĐ/ ngày trong những này gần Tết

The woman said she liked this job, as nếu Tôi nhận mang những nhánh đào
it was similar to her farming work at ra bán ở chợ.
home. In previous years, she worked
as a house cleaner around the Kham
Thien residential quarter but it was
hard while wages were low.

Người phụ nữ đã nói cơ đã thích cơng
việc này vì nó cũng giống như cơng

“We’re trying to save about VND10 việc gia đình tại nhà của cô. Trong
million for the whole family over Tet, giai đoạn chuẩn bị năm mới, cô đã
including my parents, parents-in-law, làm việc như một người lau dọn nhà
and three children” she said. “About cửa xung quanh khu nhà ở Khâm
25-27 Lunar December, we will stop Thiên- cơng việc khó nhọc trong khi
lương thì thấp.
work and go home to enjoy Tet.”
"Chúng tôi đang cố gắng để tiết kiệm
10 triệu VNĐ dành cho tồn bộ gia
Family-helper centres in Ha Noi are đình qua dịp Tết, bao gồm cha mẹ

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also recruiting seasonal labourers ruột, cha mẹ vợ và 3 đứa con". Cơ
because there is great demand for nói."Khoảng 25-27/12 âm lịch, chúng
family-helpers over Tet, Nguyen Yen tôi sẽ nghỉ việc và đi về nhà đón Tết."
Trang, head of Van Phuc familyhelper centre in Hoang Mai District Nguyễn Yến Trang, giám đốc trung
tâm giúp việc gia đình Văn Phúc ở
revealed.
Quận Hoàng Mai tiết lộ rằng trung
The salary depends on the work: tâm giúp việc gia đình ở Hà nơi cũng
VND3.5 million - 5 million ($154- đã tuyển lao động thời vụ bởi vì có
230) per month for a fulltime family- một nhu cầu lớn dành cho giúp việc
helper and VND50.000 ($2.2) per qua dịp Tết.
hour for part-time ones.

Lương phụ thuộc vào công việc: 3.5
triệu - 5 triệu đồng một tháng làm
việc tồn thời gian dành cho cơng
việc giúp việc gia đình và 50 nghìn/
giờ làm bán thời gian.

“We have to look for Tet labourers Chị Trang nói: "Mọi người tìm kiếm
two or three months early as supply lao động cho dịp Tết sớm hai hoặc ba
doesn’t meet the increasing demand tháng khi nguồn cung không đáp ứng
of seasonal employment,” Trang said. nhu cầu ngày càng tăng việc làm lao
thời vụ ".

"Seasonal

labourers

are

mainly "Lao động thời vụ chủ yếu là sinh
college students and rural people so
viên và người dân ngoại thành vì vây
they lack professional skills. Our họ thiếu kĩ năng nghề nghiệp. Trung

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centre often has to train them for up tâm chúng tơi thường phải huấn luyện
to three days."

họ trong vịng khoảng 3 ngày"

Nguyen Thi Lan Huong, from the Nguyễn Thị Lan Hương, đến từ Viện
Institute of Labour Science and Social khoa học Lao động - Xã Hội đã nói
Affairs said the time near Tet required thời gian gần Tết tăng nhu cầu lao
many labourers for services including động cho công nghiệp dịch vụ như
sales, workers at flower and bonsai bán hàng, người lao động tại vườn
gardens, and transport companies.

hoa và bosai, và những cơng ty vận
tải.

During

Tet

period,

service Bà nói: trong giao đoạn Tết, công
industry such as restaurants, spas, nghiệp dịch vụ như nhà hàng, spa,
family-helper
and
transport người giúp việc và những công ty vận
companies

and

production

need

the

consumer
many

goods tải và sản xuất hàng tiêu dùng cần
seasonal nhiều lao động thời vụ.

labourers, she said.
According to HCM City-based Centre Theo như TP HCM-dựa vào Trung
for Human Resources Forecast and tâm dự báo nguồn nhân lực và thông
Labour

Market

Information,

the tin thị trường lao động, thị trường lao

labourer market in the city would be động trong thành phố sẽ ổn định vào
stable in the last two months of the hai tháng cuối năm Tết Nguyên Đán.
Lunar Year. However, the demand for Nhưng nhu cầu dành cho lao động
seasonal labourers tends to increase thời vụ xu hướng gia tăng giao động
by 15-20 per cent in comparison with 15-20% so với cùng kì năm ngối, có
previous months, meaning the city nghĩa thành phố sẽ cần khoảng
will need about 25.000 seasonal 25.000 lao động thời vụ.

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labourers.
Deputy director of Ha Noi Job Centre, Phó giám đốc trung tâm việc làm Hà
Vu Quang Thanh said popular jobs Nội, ơng Vũ Quang Thanh, đã nói
attracting many seasonal labourers những công việc phổ biến thu hút
nhiều lao động thời vụ là dịch vụ và
were in services and trading.
thương mại.
Thanh said his centre usually updated Ơng Thanh cũng nói trung tâm đã
recruitment announcements through đưa thông tin tuyển dụng thông báo

job fairs and at the centre’s entrance, thông qua hội chợ việc làm và tại
aiming to recruit college students and cổng của trung tâm, đầu vào tuyển
rural people.

dụng những sinh viên và người ngoại
thành.

However, he warned, “Although the Tuy nhiên, ông cũng cảnh báo rằng:
demand for seasonal labourers is big "Mặc dù nhu cầu lao động mùa vụ
now, there is no change in wage. bây giờ là rất lớn nhưng khơng có
Rural labourers should be careful in thay đổi mức lương. Những người lao
selecting a recruitment centre to động ở vùng quê nên cẩn thận trong
avoiding fraudsters.”
quá trình tuyển dụng công việc ở
trung tâm để tránh những người lừa
đảo."
b. Analysis
 Linguistic phenomena
In this article, there are some main languages phenomena such as references
and reiteration use as cohesive devices in the text. Besides, there is also simile
as a figurative language. The below analysis can show it clearly.
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