a symbol of integration
into economic and social globalization. Communicative demands in English as an official language is an
important issue for Thai citizens so as to be able to cope adequately with several affairs, like making
international agreements, creating provisions for a free flow of services, and interacting with economic
immigrants within their communities. The skill of reading English is a vital factor for Thais to access
information and keep them up-to-date. The Thai Ministry of Education has been promoting policies to begin the
process of aligning English teaching and learning with the Common European Framework of Reference for
Languages (CEFR) to benchmark language ability and communicative language teaching (CLT) as the teaching
methodology to emphasize English from the basic to tertiary levels (Ministry of Education, 2015; Kitjaroonchai,
2013). With this, Thailand will begin to adopt the latest trends in English teaching, a first step towards additional
promotion of the English language. This led to the reason why the 7th grade students were the chosen ones as the
sample group in this research. As the resut of this level which is the beginning of secondary school, the students
would have been more proficient in English if they had been focused on good basic language skills.