Dear all, I had been really restless for 2 weeks as my desktop and notebook are both out of order at around the same time and even with ipad and iPhone, life wasn't what I really wanted it to be ka.
My close contact/friend sent me an article about ranking on English proficiency. 910,000 adults took EF English tests in 2014. It was confirmed that better English correlates with higher income and better quality of life, and women are better than men.
With no surprise, Thailand ranks real real low. If you haven't got to see it, here is what I've drawn from the list for 70 countries ranked ka:
12-- Singapore, 14-- Malaysia, 27--Korea, 30-- Korea, 31-- Taiwan, 32-- Indonesia, 33-- Hong Kong, 47-- China, 62-- Thailand, and 69-- Cambodia
I couldn't agree more with my friend who said the Thai style would try to find faults with the survey methodology and I should add the credibility of the company.
Instead of doing so, we should feel thankful for the company to come up with the ranking and for us to exert more energy collectively to have some systematic approaches for education institutions to use/try. There're quite a few successful projects and effective software applications around for us to explore further. A bit earlier, I was sharing about several too.
Several concerns are:
-- It isn't for the ministry of education to consider that it has to be in charge to do anything as ''One size fits all!".......again and again!
-- Any single successful pilot project doesn't mean it can become the blanket success of all schools at all levels and types, nor can individual successful pilot project be something political intervention is needed for nationwide implementation!
All through my life, I've seen politicians try to launch some 'new' project nationally to gain publicity or even for good cause. Unfortunately, more often than not, it only did more harm than good, particularly to those schools with average and low performances, which make up the majority of the institutions! The policy not to teach English at a younger age or the revised policies to go back to teach it from earlier year or the funding support to promote learning was with insufficient careful planning, leaving kids and teachers at a complete loss. One big training during one summer could never lead us to the goal we've been yearning for!
Talking about it, what exactly is our goal for Thais to become more proficient? Have to go back to what I got from the previous seminar about awareness of the importance of the language proficiency as a key tool of communication, learning, career and promotion, and future livelihood.
We don't seem to touch much about our own cultural traditions about หมั่นไส้ กลัวผิด กลัวถูกด่า/ว่า (answering too often could be viewed as showing off, not answering for being afraid of making mistakes and of being blamed....). To me, these are the root causes but as they seem to be abstract and are big challenge to tackle, not so many people take them up to improve our teaching-learning processes, making changes of our teachers and students plus senior administrators and parents.
What do you think should be the best ways/options for all generations to study English ka?
Over to you ka.
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