2nd Reflective Journals
To improve English education in Thailand, the best start is improving students themselves. As a student who wants to make the English education in Thailand being better, I will improve my English skills by self learning, for instance, reading English textbooks, listening to English songs, or having conversation with friends or family in English. By learning and practicing gradually day by day, the English will absolutely be better. Also, joining a club with friends would make the learning more interesting and effective. Everyone in a club can share their knowledge, opinion, and help each other in studying. The club will not limited in just teaching and learning, it can be clubs about singing, dancing, debating or cooking which the official language using is only English. Gather in a club will not be effective enough to make English education in Thailand be improved; we need to scatter the knowledge to the other society especially local schools and local communities where children are lacking of good English education. Student will go the local school or communities to teach English at least once a week.
As the aspect of a person who has authority to improve the English education in Thailand, the first thing I would like to improve is the teacher resource. Nowadays, English teacher in Thailand some do not have correct knowledge to teach the students and some do not have proper way to teach effectively. There should be a test to evaluate the teacher’s ability, for those who not pass have to attend the extra class to learn more. Textbook is also the important thing to approach the knowledge. However, the English textbook in Thailand nowadays is very underdeveloped both appearance and context. We should make the book be more interested by using the good quality paper and insert the illustration. About the context, we should apply more practical lesson for the student, not just grammatical tenses or vocabulary, it could be the conversation...