Fear of mistakes Culturally, it is easy for Thai students become afraid of making mistakes during the teaching and learning process. Different from the culture in other countries which the students are confident enough in asking question, giving opinion/suggestion or even refuting in classroom teaching. This human weakness of making mistakes has result in failure for Thais in speaking English. Leaning language means learning how to communicate through oral not only from text and translate into target language. Most of students are afraid to be laughed and do not want to be criticized or even look silly in front of their peers. They keep silence and listen rather than expressing what in their mind is. 2.
Shyness The students are afraid to speak due to the feeling of incapable in English. They are unwilling to intimidate by their friends of the teacher. It creates the sentiment of shyness. Students think a lot when they are faced to explore their ideas in speaking performance. The feeling of worst, incompetent, and less-skilled, that all have been built if students could not
uncover their shyness by confidence. Those could block the process of students’ ability in
oral communication. 3.
Anxiety Anxiety is the feeling of nervousness correlated to the specific situation. When the students are dominated by this tension during practicing English, it must obstruct students from speaking fluently. Thai students feel uncomfortable or even being confused and panicky every so often when they are faced in training oral language production. As the consequence, they get difficulty to catch the smoothness in speaking. 4.
Lack of confidence There are many reasons that lead the students lacking of confidence. It can be caused by insufficient encouragement by the teacher. Teachers might be seemed as giving support to
their students but they do that way based on the teachers’ perception
only. Most the teachers in Thailand is still applying their teaching with physical reward. Moreover, before starting
the lesson teachers usually rely on the rattan to force the students include in the classroom. It could be an image of how Thai students learn. Unconsciously, its habit increases the fear of trying new things for students. For that reason, Thais are often not confident to try to speak English. 5.
Lack of motivation Motivation can derive from both the students and the teacher. In English language classroom, teachers mainly handle the success of communication apprehension. The method and strategy play the important roles on how extent the students exploring and applying the target language as well. As we know that native have more places in oral communication teaching in Thailand because the local English teachers have inadequately creativity to make a deal with