Learning experience for "Seminar in English Language Teaching"
Today, in the classroom teacher talked about English teaching problems in Thailand. After that, teacher gave the article about "English-Teaching Problems in Thailand and Thai Teachers' Professional Development Need" by Sripathum Noom-ura. And then, teacher gave the students helped to discuss about this article. When the students discuss is finished teacher told the purpose of this article by the students helped to show their opinion. Teacher told that the purpose of this text is "The data was analyzed by frequency distribution and percentage; the highest to lowest ranking." include the teacher discussed about comparing that not well e.g. the international average score was so but the Thai average score was 75, which was a little higher that the average scores of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Singapore. Detail of this article is "In addition, in the most recent Education First English Proficiency Index (EF EPT, 2012) released in October, 2012 Sweden and Denmark ranked first and second, Singapore twelfth, and Thailand 53rd-the world's second-lowest rank (above only Libya)-with an average score of 43.36 and labeled very low proficiency." After that, teacher gave the students come in front of the class and discussed about Problems involving Teachers, Students, Curricula and Textbooks, Assessment and other Factors.
1. Problems involving Teachers
- Writing teaching.
- Teacher don't have experience in English teaching.
- Teacher teaches by not use English in teaching.
- Listening and Speaking teaching.
- Using music that problem in students of learning e.g. more difficult.
2. Problems involving Students
- Students don't have chance to practice.
- Students use English not enough.
3. Problems involving Curricula and Textbooks
- The inappropriateness of the curricula for local conditions.
- The curricula having too much to cover.
4. Problems involving Assessment
- Assessment of listening-speaking skills, writing and listening.
5. Problems involving Other Factors
- Lack of teachers who were English native speakers.
- Limited time-allocation for English classes.
Finally, I got many knowledge for this course and I could develop knowledge in order to bring to use in daily life and teaching in the future.
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