Thread: Asking abount experience in Teaching English in Thailand (Please help)

All,

Currently, I'm enrolling the class for teaching English overseas. I got the assignment to research some questions regarding to Thailand. Could anyone please help me to answer the following questions. Your help is appreciated. Thank you in advance: )

Please kindly help to fill the following information
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Age:
Nationality:
Teaching experiences (years):
Level/Age of students and context:

Questions:
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- What have you learned about the Thai culture?


- Are there any aspects of Thai culture that seem relevant to teaching there. (e.g. do teachers have a specific place in that country's culture?)
Does that extend to international teachers? Or does an international teacher's role shift?


- What have you learned about the English language teaching situation?


- What words have you learned about the language of your country that makes it dissimilar to English or similar?


- What role might knowing Thai play in the teaching of English in Thailand?


- If you don't know Thai, what phrases have you learned to help you in class?



Thank youuuuuuuu.

22

British

4 months

Mathayom 2 and 5, mixed abilities, conversation.

- Don't bother getting angry, especially don't bother shouting, Thai kids don't understand why you'd be angry just because they've been downright ignoring you and talking over you on a class wide scale.

- Not that I've personally noticed.

- Not specifically the English language teaching situation, but Thailand has some serious cultural habits that need to be addressed before the dire education situation can improve.

You simply cannot learn (and teach) in a classroom where every single child is talking, ignoring the teacher, and cannot see why that this is disrespectful. This also extends to academic meetings and I imagine all and any forms of conference within Thailand.

See above but with answering ones mobile phone - again, any and all situations in Thailand (I saw a monk answer his mobile phone during a religious procession in which he played a fairly central role).

- We use a lot of pointless words and rules in English, also we should have a question particle.

- Can be useful for teaching grammar I suppose.

- 'Ni-ap' (yelled at the top of your lungs) = 'Shut the fuck up', 'Sit-laow Mai' = 'Finished?'.