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Originally Posted by peelieorion
The articles is fair enough but we shouldn't make excuses for Thais. the way they learn English is utter nonense simply based on filling in textbooks before they can read, never being encouraged to make mistakes and learn from them and being allowed for a large part to lean on their friends and smile their way through. Multiple guess tests should be abolished. You only learn from doing and producing. Lets get the country speaking bad English first before we refine it. Not easy though given the same nonense goes on in every subject of the Thai curriculum
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Different topics really, peeeli, and ones which you've explored in admirable depth previously.
Mother tongue interference is a common phenomenon for any language learner. Awareness of the reasons why students make mistakes can be invaluable, both for helping them to get it right and for easing teacher frustrations.
A few years ago I had a colleague who groaned at considerable volume 'How come these morons can't do something as simple as tell the time'
He had absolutely no idea, of course, of how to tell the time in the very different thai manner.
Only joking about the font, mike. It's good content, and that's what counts. Could be 'modded and stickied', actually.