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2 Responses to “The Eleventh National English Speech Competition”

1. A humble tiny DPUIC student says:

   July 19, 2009 at 8:03 pm

   In my life, the hardest and toughest job in my opinion is to be a teacher because it requires much efforts and patience to teach students. As a DPU student, I found out many reasons why the university students just learn to get by or ignore to learn English. Since Students in Thailand have different backgrounds of learning English, I can summarize the problems in to these categories. (The problem is rooted from High School teaching style, yet it disturbs professor’s university in teaching them as well.

   * Some teachers are not attentive to some students who possess poor knowledge of English and when they felt of being uninterested, then they don’t want to learn. Later, they will not continue their study. And when they want to come back to study English after ignoring it for 1 year or two year, they miss the basics parts, which is really important to them to develop into the higher skills such as studying at the university level.

   ** Some students have bad experiences towards learning English when they were in a high school or elementary school. For example, they were hit by a teacher when they did not summit their homework on time, or they were embarrassed in front of the class by an English teacher.

   *** Most students in Thailand are passive learners since they come from relationship-oriented, a high avoidance society and prefer to do things as a collectivism group. For instance, they like to avoid answering question because they are scared that they answer wrong questions, and other people keep quiet at the same time.

   *** The problems come from students themselves. They don’t have motivations of in another term, a dream or a goal in their life, to take English seriously as a necessary skill to possess and some students also don’t worry about their future.

   *** Some teachers for their teaching styles are boring for students. To give some examples, the teacher always uses all the materials from a textbook and sometimes, they always put lots of words in the Power Point. Therefore, they lack of intention to study.

   If you found it interesting and you want to know the solutions, give me some feedback and I will write it for you. Who knows the better solution than a student himself or herself?
2. admin says:

   July 21, 2009 at 3:27 pm

   Great to get thought-provoking comments from some of our readers. What do other readers have to say?