The paper presents detailed comments on the objectives, content, methods, assessing results and orientation of documents of teaching speaking and listening skills for high school students based on the Vietnamese Literature Curriculum (2018), in the view comparable to South Korean Literature Curriculum (2015). From that, the paper proposes some issues about teaching these two skills in the Vietnamese Literature Curriculum (2018) such as: determining the important role of practicing speaking and listening skills
encouraging teachers to organize a variety of practice activities in speaking and listening skills, combining the use of non-verbal means
increasing providing teachers basic knowledge of communication activities as well as teaching methods of speaking and listening skills