Thailand Ranked 106th in English Proficiency Out of 116 Countries

[Harrisfan]

13 minutes ago, MartinBangkok said:

Ask a random Thai about the last 5 or 10 movies they've watched and ask them to share their song playlist with you. Then get back to me. Ok Scottie?

Can't remember my last 2 movies. Movies are more for teenagers 

[KireB]

1 hour ago, MartinBangkok said:

You obviously know nothing about Thailand and Thais. They are completely ignorant to anything outside Thailand's borders. That includes American films and English music.

I assume you are sarcasric.

[ikke1959]

35 minutes ago, kwilco said:

Probably the worst reference for anything about Thailand!

Happy to know you now everything.. probably got your education here in Thailand. Your comment on everybody but you knoe nothing about the real life

[ikke1959]

42 minutes ago, kwilco said:

Probably the worst reference for anything about Thailand!

 

[ikke1959]

41 minutes ago, kwilco said:

Probably the worst reference for anything about Thailand!

 

[KireB]

2 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Complete and absolute rubbish based on your incapacity for an intelligent thought. What about native speakers with an education degree? How about those with an ordinary degree and a CELTA (my guess is you don't know what a CELTA is)? What about an ordinary degree, a diploma of teaching in a 2nd or other language and a CELTA?  An education degree and a diploma in teaching in a 2nd or other language? Masters in linguistics on top of an education degree? A teacher that teaches a 2nd or other language in no way needs to know another language. They need to know about language acquisition and how to teach it.

You really just keep showing your complete lack of understanding. Of course there are some who can be well qualified and be bad teachers just as there can be some who have little or no education in the profession but can still be good teachers. Sure Thailand's full of useless farang teachers with dodgy degrees but to say "Most native speakers are terrible English  teachers" is simply your opinion with no actual basis. 

Do you have temper issues? And of course is that my opinion.  Isn't it factual that most Americans only speak 1 language? Wouldn't you agree that when you want to teach a subject, you should understand the learning process behind it? Exactly, so we agree now.

 

I fail to see why you would get all upset about that.

[kwilco]

35 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

Happy to know you now everything.. probably got your education here in Thailand. Your comment on everybody but you knoe nothing about the real life

I'm dyslexic too, but it didn't prevent me from learning critical thinking. Assumptions are the mark of a fool,

[kwilco]

3 hours ago, KireB said:

Like a coding teacher who has never turned on a computer

but you are speaking like a teacher who has never trained to teach...

[DavisH]

3 hours ago, Pompeygeezer said:

Education is just not taken seriously enough In Thailand.  They say their English Proficiency is poor but no doubt it's the same with other subjects.  It wouldn't surprise me if they're poor in most subjects.  

O-net scores have shown a decline over the last decade. Average scores on 4-choice multiple choice tests average 25-35%. So the average student is basically guessing all the answers. Obviously there are a handful of excellent schools here, but the vast majority of the remainder skew the results. 

[kwilco]

21 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

The biggest problem in Thai education is the non fail policy.

Except not with English but with medical training - think about that next time you are in a hospital

[eastlight]

21 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Millions can speak Lanna or Isaan languages. Many can speak Korean.

This is similar to the situation where people insist on speaking Welsh in the UK where the question is why.

[eastlight]

21 hours ago, mfd101 said:

Nonsense. Most of the poor & uneducated peoples of Isaan speak at least 2 languages (Thai/Khmer and Thai/Lao are the most common).

 

In my family here the old people speak Khmer for preference and (mostly) poor Thai. Their offspring are fluent in both. Their grandchildren (mostly) still understand Khmer but refuse to speak it because of the rabid Thai nationalism taught in schools. As for English, zilch.

Just what use are those 'languages' on the world stage today.