Thai Education Ministry joins with British Council for online English tests

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Education Ministry joins with British Council for online English tests

By The Nation

 

Photo from: www.britishcouncil.or.th

 

The Office of Basic Education Commission and the British Council are preparing to launch an online English test system for Thailand.

 

The move followed Education Minister Teerakiat Jareonsettasin’s meeting with Professor Barry O’Sullivan, head of assessment research and development of the British Council London in the UK last Friday.

 

During the meeting, Teerakiat invited the British Council to serve as a consultant for Thailand’s plan to implement online English tests.

 

Teerakiat said he expected the plan to cover both formative and summative assessments. 

 

He added that he also hoped that the online system would be integrated into boot camps or intensive training for English teachers. 

 

The Education Ministry has planned online assessments for Prathom 3, Prathom 6, Mathayom 3 and Mathayom 6 students. 

 

The British Council London will inform the British Council Thailand of requirements needed for training Thai teachers who are in charge of teaching the English language. 

 

More discussions with the Education Ministry will follow to develop the online assessment system. 

 

It is likely that the system will focus on listening and reading first, before expanding to cover speaking and writing. 

 

The online assessments will be launched in February 2019. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30339148

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-02-19

[upena]

Get them to fix the computerized driving test while they are at it.

[djayz]

29 minutes ago, upena said:

Get them to fix the computerized driving test while they are at it.

And the 90 day reporting! 

[JAG]

Online assessments for P3 students?

 

https://goo.gl/images/zeG9Po

???

Edited February 19, 2018 by JAG

[mikebell]

I didn't know Facebook was affiliated to the British Council?

[Happyman58]

Laughing here the education minister was in London? Another junket trip? I dare this Minister to take the English Test Should be interesting. Then again they can make it easy for him to pass.Go something like this.  Fill in Gap   Snow white and the ------- dwarfs. Answer  1/  two dwarfs  2/  six dwarfs  3/ four dwarfs   4 /Seven dwarfs Now clue to help answer  Correct answer is  seven  oops to much information  Now can you read it back to me what you just wrote?  Minister answer is Huh not understand is that English?

[johng]

4 minutes ago, Happyman58 said:

Snow white and the ------- dwarfs.

------- = small

[Happyman58]

16 minutes ago, johng said:

------- = small

correct hooray  lol

[johng]

2 minutes ago, Happyman58 said:

correct hooray

Sank Kew  krhup pom.

[shady86]

Here no have online. Only Facebook.

[wgdanson]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

It is likely that the system will focus on listening and reading first, before expanding to cover speaking and writing. 

Should it not be listening and speaking first so that the girls can get the orders correct, followed by writing so the check bin can be done, then reading. 

[wanderluster]

thailand is really going to be in trouble if it gets the brits to help them with english.  the brits cant even speak the language themselves, they have totally destroyed the queens english.

[wgdanson]

1 minute ago, wanderluster said:

thailand is really going to be in trouble if it gets the brits to help them with english.  the brits cant even speak the language themselves, they have totally destroyed the queens english.

And some cannot put capitals or punctuation in the right places.

[Eligius]

If the Thais are forced to take a GENUINE English test - and one presumes that the British Council tests would be genuine - then the results will be terribly, horribly, face-losingly embarrassing - truly awful. 

 

The inability of so many Thais even in top banks and hi-so shopping malls to speak even passably effective basic English is one of the things that is holding this country back. 

 

But truly learning to speak and understand English would mean that the Thais can then open up that wonderland of information called the Internet. Dangerous!  On the Internet (in English)  they could learn that there are other (perhaps even in some ways) better cultures than 'Thai-niyom' (Thai-ist 'culture') and could read all the truths about their brutally oppressed and lied-to land - but the Powers That Should Not Be can't allow any of that, can they?!

[Thian]

26 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Should it not be listening and speaking first so that the girls can get the orders correct, followed by writing so the check bin can be done, then reading. 

I always let my thai wife order in restaurants and still half of the time things go wrong

[JAG]

7 minutes ago, wanderluster said:

thailand is really going to be in trouble if it gets the brits to help them with english.  the brits cant even speak the language themselves, they have totally destroyed the queens english.

Perhaps so, but maybe they can spell, understand the use of the apostrophe and know where to use capital letters?

?

Edited February 19, 2018 by JAG

[Golden Triangle]

13 minutes ago, wanderluster said:

thailand is really going to be in trouble if it gets the brits to help them with english.  the brits cant even speak the language themselves, they have totally destroyed the queens english.

I do believe you have just shot yourself in the foot with that statement matey 

[Krataiboy]

I taught my Thai/English daughter to be fluent in my native language almost entirely by using free or cheap as chips websites - including that of the British Council. There are loads of free English tests available, too, for all levels and ages.

 

Hopefully, one day soon all learning will be via home computers and digital technology and state state education  indoctrination systems will be consigned to the dustbin of history where they rightfully belong.

[davehowden]

Thais would be better off learning Chinese, the language of their new masters; rather than English; which would be useless when dealing with Americans anyway.

Edited February 19, 2018 by davehowden

[Eligius]

2 minutes ago, davehowden said:

Thais would be better off learning Chinese, the language of their new masters; rather than English; which would be useless when dealing with Americans anyway.

I like your comment about 'Chinese, the language of their new masters'. So true! The other week I was talking to a pretty high hi-so Thai, and in the middle of the conversation he suddenly insisted: 'I am not Thai. I am Chinese'. This surprised me (although it shouldn't have done). It brought home to me how the main rulers of this land, although nominally Thai, perhaps really do think of themselves as first and foremost Chinese ...

[Machiavelli]

?????? The Brits aren't here to fix the system. Thais better catch a wake up.....and the NES nonsense is the biggest hoax ever played on the Asians. How a bunch of losers who couldn't land a job in Europe are of any use to Thailand boggles the mind. Met a "professor" who worked for the BC once. What a joke. 

[Machiavelli]

1 hour ago, wanderluster said:

thailand is really going to be in trouble if it gets the brits to help them with english.  the brits cant even speak the language themselves, they have totally destroyed the queens english.

Only 2% of the the British people speak the so called "queen's language". The language that the NES brigade pretends to teach. 98% of Brits speak in their local dialects and it's not English. 

[thaibry]

Only 2% of the the British people speak the so called "queen's language". The language that the NES brigade pretends to teach. 98% of Brits speak in their local dialects and it's not English. 

What is a Brit please and what methodology did you use to reach that remarkable conclusion? Do you not realise that a substantial number of British people now follow Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg.

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[Happyman58]

3 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

I taught my Thai/English daughter to be fluent in my native language almost entirely by using free or cheap as chips websites - including that of the British Council. There are loads of free English tests available, too, for all levels and ages.

 

Hopefully, one day soon all learning will be via home computers and digital technology and state state education  indoctrination systems will be consigned to the dustbin of history where they rightfully belong.

I wanted to teach my Thai step daughter also by Computer But ran into a snag She turned 17 found herself a b/f lost all interest in learning English Lets just say she has other interests now

[Happyman58]

2 hours ago, Machiavelli said:

?????? The Brits aren't here to fix the system. Thais better catch a wake up.....and the NES nonsense is the biggest hoax ever played on the Asians. How a bunch of losers who couldn't land a job in Europe are of any use to Thailand boggles the mind. Met a "professor" who worked for the BC once. What a joke. 

Dont worry the Thai Education Minister knows that to But hey what a great excuse to get a junket trip to England on Favourite Thai song  is " I'm leaving on a jet plane"

[Chris Lawrence]

Two ex-footballers one from Bradford and Grimsby will be setting up the class and course. Watching the league on the weekend when the poms were thrashed by the Aussies, the northerners were very clear in being hard to understand. Hope it works.

[JAG]

2 hours ago, Machiavelli said:

?????? The Brits aren't here to fix the system. Thais better catch a wake up.....and the NES nonsense is the biggest hoax ever played on the Asians. How a bunch of losers who couldn't land a job in Europe are of any use to Thailand boggles the mind. Met a "professor" who worked for the BC once. What a joke. 

 

2 hours ago, Machiavelli said:

Only 2% of the the British people speak the so called "queen's language". The language that the NES brigade pretends to teach. 98% of Brits speak in their local dialects and it's not English. 

You really do make it up as you go along don't you?

[Cake Monster]

Online English Tests !

 

What a joke. If my girls homework from School is anything to go by, all the kids will have the correct answers in 2 minutes , and all from one particularly bright and intelligent student that has a massive following on facebook or Line due to their ability to get the answers correct.

[bluesofa]

6 hours ago, Happyman58 said:

Laughing here the education minister was in London? Another junket trip? I dare this Minister to take the English Test Should be interesting. Then again they can make it easy for him to pass.Go something like this.  Fill in Gap   Snow white and the ------- dwarfs. Answer  1/  two dwarfs  2/  six dwarfs  3/ four dwarfs   4 /Seven dwarfs Now clue to help answer  Correct answer is  seven  oops to much information.

There was someone asked to enter a password eight characters long.

They wrote:  snow_white_and_the_seven_dwarfs

[johng]

There was someone asked to enter a password eight characters long.
They wrote:  snow_white_and_the_seven_dwarfs

That a good password ! But maybe substitute the e's for 8's