METHODS TO OVERCOME COMMON LISTENING PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY THAI STUDENTS LEARNING ENGLISH

Choosri Banditvilai ()
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Choosri Banditvilai: Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science

No 6409329, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: Listening is one of the most important skills in learning English as a foreign language. The purpose of this study aimed at investigating problems Thai Students face when listening to spoken English and factors affecting students? listening skills. The participants were 401 undergraduate non-English major students who registered to study Communicative English for Careers in the academic year 2016. They were all Thai. The research instruments used in this study were a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. The statistical techniques used were percentages with the mean value (x) and standard deviation (SD). The findings revealed that the major problem was not being able to have words repeated. The second largest problem was not being able to remember what was heard when distinguishing between similar sounding words. This was followed by not being able to grasp the main ideas. Factors affecting students? listening skills were unfamiliar vocabulary, speakers? speech rates, speakers? accents, a lack of background knowledge about the topic that they hear and a lack of concentration.

Keywords: listening problems; undergraduate; non-English major students; Communicative English for Careers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2018-06
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 35th International Academic Conference, Barcelona, Jun 2018, pages 13-21

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