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English Speaking Difficulties Encountered by Thai Students upon Communicating with Chinese Students

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Nuemaihom, Akkarapon Panduangkaew, Rosesamon Rattanawaropas, Waridtha
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	The objective of this research was to investigate the English speaking difficulties encountered by Thai students upon communicating with Chinese students. The population of the study were 30 students who joined the exchanged project of going to China in 2017. The samples consisted of 10 students who went to Shangrao Normal University and stayed there for 15 days. They were selected via a purposive sampling method. The research tool was a semi-structured interview. It was examined by three experts in order to meet its validity. The tool’s index of item-objective congruence (IOC) was between 0.67 and 1.00.The statistics used to analyze the samples’ personal data were frequency and percentage while the data obtained from the interview were analyzed by using the content analysis. The research results revealed that English speaking difficulties encountered by the samples were as the following: 1) They did not get familiar with the English accents spoken by the Chinese students. 2) They did not have self-confidence of speaking English with their Chinese friends. And 3) they were shy to speak English with their Chinese counterparts. Moreover, they suggested the following ways of solving these English speaking difficulties: 1) If they cannot understand what their Chinese friends talked about, they asked the Chinese students to repeat or to write a word down. 2) Thai students kept talking to their Chinese friends and made eye-contact while they were communicating to each other. And 3) they sometimes use a body language or facial expressions to help their friends get better understanding of what they talked about.
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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