The Working Language of ASEAN Shall be English

           

          In the next two years, Thailand becomes to be an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) membership including with another 9 countries member. The communication must play as an important role for the countries member when they need to communicate each other. Thus, Charter of the Association of Southeast ASIAN Nations (2007) has set “The working language of ASEAN shall be English”. However, there is a survey of English language levels all of countries around the world by Education First English Proficiency Index (2013) (EF EPI), shows Thailand gets very low proficiency level (rank 55th). This is the most important thing to indicate Thailand should go back to focus on English language learning in the country seriously.

         

In fact, there are various factors in Thailand that affect to learners in English language learning. Because Thai people normally use Thai language to communicate each other in the country. Thus, Dornyei (1994) has claimed the motivation refer to an individual attempt and desire to learn a specific language. Although, the motivation is a complicated process, it is able to lead learners’ behavior to achieving their goals as well (Melendy, 2008). In addition to, Muftah and Rafik-Galea (2013) say the most of studies about the motivation toward English language learning have been conducted in Southeast Asia are done in Indonesia and Malaysia, but other countries have not completed yet. Therefore, more research is required as some researcher believe motivation toward English language learning is able to be an improvement of English skills for Thai people. 

In language learning there are various factors to make learners success or failure but if who have high motivation, they will success in learning language. As Oxford & Shearin (1994) state about motivation is considered an important role of both acquiring and retaining a new language, as it determines how involved the student is personally and actively. Although, motivation is a complicated psychological process, but it starts with a need and leads to a behavior that helps move people towards achieving their goals in language learning Melendy, (2008).

Therefore, Gardner (1972) defines two types of motivation in language learning, they are integrative and instrumental motivation. Integrative motivation is related to learners’ willingness to focus and interact with native speakers and their culture (Merisuo-Storm, 2007; Shirbagi, 2010). In addition to, Gibb, M. (1997) illustrates Integrative motivation is a since desire to understand the people and culture of the target language. Thus, it is associated with openness to cultural differences and different ways of living through the development of a positive emotional disposition toward native speakers of the target language (Dörnyei, 2003). In contrast, Merisuo-Storm, 2007; Shirbagi, 2010) points out instrumental motivation refer to a desire to learn a second language for future career reasons or to pass an exam.

         

Thus, if would like to be a different person from other Thai people, you need to aware of the important of English language now. There is no time to be shine because just only two years everything will change rapidly in Thailand. So, All of you need to be "change" as soon as possible.

Language & Cultural

Having say Language and culture are words always come together in wherever depends on users. Most people think those words separate from each other in meaning. But in actually its have deep relation in each other

 Culture is a big thing, it covers a lot of things. The one thing that is "Language", it seems to be "the cultural tool". So that's why most learners who try to learn foreign language but they won't be successful due to they lack of comprehensions about that culture.

When learners want to have more understanding and capability in that foreign language, they need to dedicate themselves into that culture. By whatever you can do, for example, you need to learn English language because it is very important language in globalization period. You must find things that can help you get into its culture due to it will help you can link smoothly to the language. By using English medias to be an important tool to help you to understand more that are movie&music.

Anyway, you must have much patience to fight with yourself or your thought otherwise you will give up before you are going to be fluent. A good technique to easy learn chooses kind of English media that is kids or teen media. It will help you are more excited than another medias. If which media make you get bored, you will turn it off immediately.

Finally, you don't expect the miracle will take place with you due to you have to let's the time works. Don't hurry up while you are learning foreign language even though your need will be like that. But you need to have happiness in every small steps in learning foreign language that you can do.

How to Speak Well

This is the era of globalization, it means you can learn whatever you want to learn in the globe by using the Internet. For example, in English language,the country wherever uses it to be the second language. They can learn English language in the right way by themselves at their home by the Internet.

According to (A.J Hoge) (www.effortenglishclub.com) he explains about there are 4 topics in the English language which are Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. If you will be better in how to speak English Language, you need to do the same with the step in growing of babies in native speaker country. Or learning it seems your home language, it means without a translation system in your brain.

However, before babies will talk, they have  been listening for 2 years. After that they begin to to speak some word even if almost their words will be wrong in grammar. But adults will help to talk with them about what are the right things.

Therefore, they already have growth to be secondary school, they will begin to reading story books. Having said, the reading will be the fundamental of writing and knowledge but they still have listened all the time. Eventually, they will learn in English Grammar in high school to be the last step of learn language.

Finally, whoever wants to speaking in English Language or other languages well, you need to learn it like the step of babies in the native speaker country. Because that is the most powerful in learning English language or other languages that you want to learn.

Motorcycle Taxi in Thailand

As we have know, English language has become to be the language of the universal, we always use it to communicate in the globe. In 21 centuries, we need to break down anything that is the big obstacle to make people cannot speak English.

There is an impossible thing happen in Thailand that is the one who lives in the normal occupation but he can speak English fluently. He is a " motorcycle taxi" it seems to be impossible but it is possible.

Moreover, he has always tell the news that he met during his way to others by using his social media in his smart phone. So that we can say to him in another way that is " street journalist"

How did we know about his English skill? Because of there was the Singapore Channel came to talked with him in English language then he spoke fluently and didn't scare anything would have made him wrong.

Although, we will live in anywhere we can learn and use the English language because of we have never too old in learning anything. English language likes a window of the new world. So we must be brave when we will use it, "just only do it".