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Originally Posted by Ben Dover
I've been teaching M6 for a number of years now. Really they aren't motivated by anything other than Entrance Exam preparation. Many schools stick us foreign teachers in the classroom to do conversation exercises, but these are meaningless to the students. Conversation isn't part of their exams, even for international programs at the top universities.
So if you're teaching those things to M6 students they simply won't participate. Foreign teachers are unfortunately associated with wasting of time. Just a show to allow the school to raise fees. Really, the only thing to get the students attention is work on their entrance exam material.
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Think your right B.D. I'm lucky I teach them at Pratom level where they all want to speak and show their parents how good their English is. This is a big problem here. If the exams don't require speaking many students can't be bothered. 30% of my exam is a speaking test from P1 upwards. It becomes an expectation. How can students study abroad without even basic communicational English is a mystery. Another example of Thailand not challenging its students.