English Learning problems for Thai people

Abstract

This academic article aims to study the problems of learning English in Thai people in the four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The study was found that Thais have more problems learning English than neighboring countries such as Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Philippines, etc. In terms of the four skills which were listening, speaking, reading and writing, it was found that Thai people have problems in listening skills such as listening and understanding English conversation used in everyday life, listening to English radio and listening to original audio from foreign movies, etc, In the second, speaking skills is as greeting, self-introduction, giving directions, and conversation in daily life, discussion in English. In the third, Writing skills are common problems such as writing a report in English, taking note the subtitles in English, how to annotate things in English, writing a biography in English and reading skills is least problematic.