Later, the idea of communicative language teaching (CLT), focusing on listening and
speaking skills, was discussed in several papers presented at the 1978 RELC* seminar
in Singapore (Ho Wah Kam, 2001). Subsequently this concept was incorporated into
Thailand English curriculum in 1996. Even though the Ministry of Education in
Thailand has tried to raise the standards of ELT in this and other ways, we continue to
face several problems as is evidenced in the results of the English language evaluation
of our students as a whole.