Research Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: June | Volume: 7 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 247-253
The Main Reason that Thailand's High School Students are Not Adapting in the English Language
Naphatsara Tanmongkola, Ratnatcha Moonpimb, Sirada Vimonvattaraveteec, Tanatorn Suteerapornchaid, Watcharin Kaniyoae
aSaint Francis Xavier Convent School, Bangkok, Thailand,
bAssumption College Sriracha, Chonburi, Thailand,
cMater Dei School, Bangkok, Thailand,
dAssumption Samutprakran School, Samutprakran, Thailand,
eChiangmai Thepbodint School, Chiangmai, Thailand,
Corresponding Author: Tanatorn Suteerapornchai
ABSTRACT
A large majority of high school students in Thailand have obstacles with the utilization of the English language; however, they have set their goal to be good at English. More than that, many students are intending and wanting to be even more successful in English. The objectives research regarding of a study of the main reasons why high school students in Thailand do not specialize in English were: (1) finding reasons they are not adapted and be good at English, (2) searching the reason why Thailand’s children defected of learning English languages, (3) providing plausible and reasonable solutions for students. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire survey of 130 high school students from the various schools which information has been collected by using statistical analysis in terms of turning to be the percentage. Following, each of percentage values has been arranged into categories before finding the best solutions to assist the high school students. It follows that responses from Thai high school students who think they are average and below average are 55.4% and 23% respectively. As well as skills, Speaking is the weakest skill which has a variety of causes which half of responses are inexperienced; furthermore, the other answers such as being too afraid of speaking and unknowing vocabulary are factors which make inefficient improvement in speaking skill. Consequently, 49.2 percent of students think complexity of grammatical range and accuracy is difficult.
Keywords: English, Language, High school, Education
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