Thai students don’t work independently. They avoid taking
initiatives. They do as they are told. It doesn’t mean that they have lack
of ideas or courage, but they avoid making mistakes or in other words
they avoid “loosing face”. This attitude doesn’t work while learning
English listening and speaking.Learning listening and speaking requires
a lot of initiatives and courage to communicate with English speakers
independently without being too much sensitive on making mistakes.
Learning listening and speaking is action based study. A similar situation
was found by Hui (1997, p.38), in China,