Phan Van Giuong is professor of Vietnamese studies at Victoria University, Melbourne and currently works for the United Kingdom's International Baccalaureate program. He has taught Vietnamese and English since 1965 and was the founding Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Culture Studies at Hoa Sen University. He has also been the general coordinator at Victorian School of Languages; the chair of setting and marking examination papers for Victoria Curriculum and Assessment Authority, Victoria Department of Education; editor of several Vietnamese literature magazines and newspapers and awarded the Order of Australia Medal and the International Educator of the Year award for his outstanding contributions to the teaching of Vietnamese language and culture. Professor Phan is the author of many textbooks: Vietnamese for Beginners (1-4), Functional Vietnamese , Modern Vietnamese (1-4), Vietnamese for Foreign Travellers , Vietnamese Interactive Books and a series of Pocket, Concise and Compact Vietnamese-English dictionaries (Tuttle Publishing).