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Home » Language » Thailand has the lowest English language proficiency score
A JobStreet.com survey of employees shows that the command of English in Thailand is in a sad state, writes The Nation.
Of the Southeast Asian countries surveyed, Thailand scores the worst and Singapore the best.
The English language test (Jela) was completed by 1.540.785 participants from 5 countries: Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. The Jela test consists of 40 random questions, which are selected from a total of 1.000 questions. Singapore workers scored an average of 81 percent, followed by the Philippines at 73 percent, Malaysia at 72 percent, Indonesia at 59 percent and Thailand at 55 percent.
In Thailand, employees from journalism, marketing and secretarial positions received the highest scores.
But the influences of England resp. the US on Singapore, Malaysia resp. you can't erase the Philippines. To be honest, the Thai figures – Thailand has never been colonized – are not too bad.
Hi Eric,
The fact that Thailand has never been colonized has less to do with the English. Should there have been any question of colonization, it would have been France, who was pounding at the gates of Siam, and had threatened to march in more than once. In 1887, France declared the Union of Indochina. It gave Thailand the understanding that it would no longer be involved with Cambodia. In 1893, Laos was incorporated into the Union.
Meanwhile, England was busy in Burma. England and France, who at the time were not good neighbors in Europe, agreed to use the Mekong as a border between Thailand and Laos; and to use Thailand as a buffer between the two of them as major powers present there. It could have turned out differently and then we would have received croissants and baquettes, other than from the Japanese baker.
Regards, Ruud
Reminds me of a meeting of the 10 ASEAN countries, where I had to give a presentation. In the preparatory discussions I asked the chairman what the 'working language' within ASEAN was: 'broken English' was the answer given with a big grin. Turned out to be completely correct!
Remarkably high result for Thailand. I have my doubts about the result.
The article states that it is a survey among EMPLOYEES, so a certain selection from the population of the countries surveyed. So no self-employed people, students from secondary schools or universities, no unemployed people... So: no representative sample from the population. Of course, this is not necessary if that was not the purpose of your research. Surveys among students in secondary schools and universities show that Thai English language proficiency is low compared to surrounding countries and has hardly improved in the past 10 years, while this has been the case in surrounding countries.
Percentage is okay with me.
I know an English teacher who barely speaks the English language herself.
So have to teach?????
Gerrit
If you look at the school level in general, it is not surprising that the knowledge of English is low.
Even "university" educated people often do not speak English. (I deliberately put university in quotes, because I can't always estimate the level correctly).
It is of course remarkable when you consider that tourism (and therefore necessary) is an important source of income. In addition, you only have to open a newspaper to read from job advertisements that knowledge of English is very often a requirement.
The problem lies - in addition to the level of education - in my opinion also in the mentality of (many) Thais: living from day to day and making efforts to get further is often not an option (again it has something to do with planning and thinking ahead ).
This is a big problem. My wife, who knows very well that English is necessary, has two sons who could take English as a test for free at the university, provided they
had to take 2 hours longer lessons out of the few hundred students, there were a dozen present so everything was called off?
Also a problem are those so-called farangs who come to teach here, a few in our circle of friends cannot speak proper English themselves and readily admit that, we are young and then we try to get a visa this way and there is a good chance that we will get some nice can seduce girls?
We live in the Isaan, just have to cross the border to Laos, there many can speak not only English but often a little French, the same in Cambodia, not always perfect but
most young people do their best to talk to you sometimes happens in Bangkok
but nothing else here.
Do they also learn French in secondary school in addition to English in (parts of) Isaan (and beyond?)? My girlfriend (Khonkaen region) studied both French and English in high school. the level isn't really anything to write home about, but it's at least something. Or it must have been something from her school itself, but who knows if more schools in the region towards Laos do this.
To be honest, I wonder if it wouldn't be better if they had exchanged French lessons for more English lessons. Better to have 1 language at a more than sufficient to good level than two languages just a little. Especially if you largely forget one or both foreign languages because you never use it. My girlfriend remembers little about the French lessons...