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G.11-03
Preparation of Thailand
economic, political, and security cooperation among its ten members. Thailand, as one of the
members need to prepare for the AEC, as it now enters its second year. Thailand need to prepare for
many things. The three examples of important things that Thailand should improve which are
The language is the important key of communicate between people. English the official
language for the world which very important skill for communicate among different countries.
Thailand as one of the members of ASEAN has to prepare for the open of AEC. Thai people still have
problem of English skills, for example speaking and writing. Thai people should realize the important
of language skill that will useful for the open of opened AEC. Chinese language also important as
well. Nowadays, China has been involved for the economics of the whole world which after AEC
opened Chinese businesses might come to Thailand and the Chinese speaker would get the benefits
from that. The opened AEC will make the foreigners come to Thailand both for business and tourism.
Thailand has to prepare to get the most benefits form open of AEC and make the least disadvantage
for the natural resources and tourist attraction. Thailand as a center of AEC, by geography, might has
more tourists come according from 2016 MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index, Bangkok is
the top-ranked destination city by international overnight visitor arrivals. Bangkok is projected to
receive 21.47 million international overnight visitors in 2016. The point interesting places that the
tourists would go has to able to hold as much tourists as needed. The language skill is very important
for Thai people which the government should pay more attention from the bottom which is students.
Thailand education has been poor for centuries. The government need to prepare the children
which will grow up and become adults one day to able to compete with the foreigners that will come
in Thailand. Thailands education about English language focus too much about grammar which made
the kids struggle with speaking skills. Also, the kids has been taught not to argue for themselves but
only listen to the elder which will harm themselves in the future. The teachers should teach the
modern life lesson such as the disadvantage of using too much mobile phone and give the reasons to
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make the kids understand and become a better adults in the future. For years shoddy teaching has
favored urban children whose parents can afford to send them to cramming schools or to study
abroad. (Not rocket science, 2017). From the article shows that the students nowadays has to study
extra class to get in a good universities. Thai government never realize how poor is the examination
that most of the student has to take extra class to get a good score. Every Thai seniors needed to take
the required exams such as GAT, PAT, essential subjects in order to admit to Thai-program
universities. According from National Institute of Educational Testing Service website, the percentage
of the students who attend the examination and the score range. PAT1, mathematics test in 2016,
64.73% from 253,213 students got 30.01-60.00 points from 300 points; result of this examination
show how poor Thailand education system is. Also, the mean score of PAT1 become lesser each year
according from Dek-d columnists thread of mean and score range compare to the previous years
(@llomintoll, December 2016). There are many comments from students who took the tests and they
agreed that their senior subjects arent covered enough information to make students pass the tests
which made they have to spend lots of money for tutoring school and books. As long as English
language learning in Thailands objective is to create people who can communicate well in English
which is unachievable goal through learning in a classroom. The objective needs to change to one
which can actually be achieved. That objective is to make Thai children literate in English. To put it
very simply, if a child can match a picture to a word, or better still if they can produce a word or
words to describe a picture (on paper or in their mind), then they have become literate. (Gary I.,
2016). From Ilness quote show that Thai government need to improve. Its really important for
students to get a good education because kids nowadays will become adults in future and lead the
country. Students also tend to take extra courses and ignore normal lesson in their classroom while
teachers tend to want to improve their academic status rather than teaching their students. This is the
weakness of Thai education. Thai education needs to be revamped. More teachers are needed while
tests should be conducted to assess quality of each school.(Chokchai S., 2014). I personally agree
with this idea because this problems are the common problems that students has to face all the times
but no one really do anything to change this. Thailand has to develop its education system to make a
As Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said every worker is considered a key
driving force toward national development while the government has introduced new employment
channels through SMART LABOR application and Smart Job Centers. AEC is completely focused
on business and economics. Thailand should prepare to gain the most advantages from this. As the
member of AEC, Thailand would gain interest and trust from foreigners business to invest which also
will need the quality workers. Thai people need to be active and develop to make their resumes able to
compete with other countries workers such as Vietnamese, Burmese, and others. Since AEC opened,
the Burmese, Vietnamese, Laos, Cambodians, and others can enter Thailand as a workers which Thais
need to improve their work skills to get the job. Their will have more competitive to get the job
because the foreigners that came are mostly a quality workers. Thai people need to prepare
themselves in many ways such as languages skill and work habits. Nowadays, there are many
foreigners industry invest Thailand and the persons that has languages skill will has more chance of
get a good job and good pay. According from TIR magazine Jan 2017 vol. 27, Prime Minister found
The Office of the Board of Investment (BOI) for business support and investment incentive to
The opening of AEC will give both advantage and disadvantage to Thailand. Thais need to
improve and create the interesting skill such as languages to make them get the job that has to
compete with the foreigners that come in Thailand for work which the government should start from
the students. The good education will make the children become a good adults and make Thailand
become better in the future. Nowadays, Thailand prime minister, Prayut Chan-o-cha, has been develop
the country by using the state of Thailand 4.0. Thai people also have to develop themselves to make
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