Among the ASEAN (The Association of the South East Asian Nation) Thailand is in the bottom when it comes to the English Language. As our international language, the government promoted teaching English in school to produce globally competitive student. The English program like MEP (Mini English Program) IEP (Intensive English Program) and EP (English Program) is offered in selected school nationwide. Bilingual school is much more expensive, they offered English Program in all subject.
How's your teaching?
How's your teaching?
I find it very easy to teach English here I teach from Anuban (kindergarten) to Pratom 6 (grade 6). Anuban to Pratom 3, I teach more on Phonetics and I meet them once a week. For Pratom 4 to 6, I focused on basic English conversation for our everyday life. I have to be very patient because students are very naughty and noisy. They find English as a very difficult subject, so I have to apply some games and songs while teaching. Students must learn English in a fun way.
How's your school?
How's your school?
My school is very much accommodating to me. I have free lunch and compensate me fairly. They only have one teacher that can communicate and understand English. Our director can't speak English but he is kind and approachable.
What do you dislike about teaching English?
What do you dislike about teaching English?
Not really dislike, because I love my job and I like how I teach my student. But sometimes I find it funny when it comes to pronunciation. Since Thai doesn't have a sound of letter s, v, l, and z in their Thai alphabet, sometimes how I read some English words defer to them.
Like for instance, the word office, they pronounce it "ofit". I'm working hard to teach my student phonetics. But I have this co-teacher who wants to boost her ability and loves to interrupt me always while I'm teaching. She is teaching my student with wrong pronunciation. So since the student can now speak the word office as "ofis", and then she read it again as "ofit", then all the student stared at me. She just nod at me, I wanted to laugh but I can't. I see it in the eyes of my students that they are confused. But good for them, they still pronounce it correctly when I ask them to read.
What do you like about teaching in Thailand?
What I like most is first, no paper works. They only required me to give the students remarks nothing else but it really depends on school. Other schools are strict and others requires you to make a lot of paper works or assessment reports for the student.
Second, no classes on weekend and holidays. We can travel anywhere on weekend and holidays or rest at home. Sometimes I have a tutorial class on Sunday. Additional income for me.
What do you like about teaching in Thailand?
What I like most is first, no paper works. They only required me to give the students remarks nothing else but it really depends on school. Other schools are strict and others requires you to make a lot of paper works or assessment reports for the student.
Second, no classes on weekend and holidays. We can travel anywhere on weekend and holidays or rest at home. Sometimes I have a tutorial class on Sunday. Additional income for me.
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