دانشگاه تربیت مدرس جستارهای زبانی 2322-3081 17 3 2026 09 23 Vietnamese EFL Lecturers’ Favored Instructional Strategies for Teaching Productive Skills in Online and Face-To-Face Teaching Environments Vietnamese EFL Lecturers’ Favored Instructional Strategies for Teaching Productive Skills in Online and Face-To-Face Teaching Environments 215 236 7256 10.48311/lrr.2025.7256 FA Anh Phuong Dang School of Foreign Languages, Can Tho University, Can Tho, Vietnam / Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City – Campus in Ben Tre, Vietnam Duy Khang Nguyen School of Foreign Languages, Can Tho University, Can Tho, Vietnam 0000-0002-6121-7735 Journal Article 2025 07 13 <span lang="EN-GB">This study investigates the instructional strategies Vietnamese EFL lecturers prefer to employ to teach productive skills of general English in online and face-to-face teaching environments. Thirty-eight lecturers from 6 Vietnamese universities participated and responded to a questionnaire with 29 close-ended questions detailing instructional strategies. Four of the participants were invited to join the semi-interview about the reasons for their preference for instructional strategies. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics for  Quantitative data and content analysis for qualitative data. The findings indicate that the most favored strategy in both teaching environments is describing pictures while opinion sharing and group discussion are much more favorable in the face-to-face than in the online teaching environment. Additionally, certain strategies are preferred in the face-to-face setting over instruction in the online setting and vice versa. Some primary reasons for lecturers’ preference for instructional strategies were identified and participants gave some recommendations of choosing appropriate strategies for teaching productive skills via interviews. These findings highlight EFL lecturers' preferences in selecting instructional strategies to teach English productive skills in the two teaching contexts and underscore implications for choosing proper instructional strategies.</span> <span lang="EN-GB">This study investigates the instructional strategies Vietnamese EFL lecturers prefer to employ to teach productive skills of general English in online and face-to-face teaching environments. Thirty-eight lecturers from 6 Vietnamese universities participated and responded to a questionnaire with 29 close-ended questions detailing instructional strategies. Four of the participants were invited to join the semi-interview about the reasons for their preference for instructional strategies. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics for  Quantitative data and content analysis for qualitative data. The findings indicate that the most favored strategy in both teaching environments is describing pictures while opinion sharing and group discussion are much more favorable in the face-to-face than in the online teaching environment. Additionally, certain strategies are preferred in the face-to-face setting over instruction in the online setting and vice versa. Some primary reasons for lecturers’ preference for instructional strategies were identified and participants gave some recommendations of choosing appropriate strategies for teaching productive skills via interviews. These findings highlight EFL lecturers' preferences in selecting instructional strategies to teach English productive skills in the two teaching contexts and underscore implications for choosing proper instructional strategies.</span> https://lrr.modares.ac.ir/article_7256_9f8785c7f9b578bec2c09e616568d270.pdf