An Experiment in the Effectiveness of “Crash Program” in English at Kasetsart University

Abstract

An average Thai student, upon entering a university, has been taught English for eight years. The level of English proficiency, however, is surprisingly low in all aspects, namely, writing, reading, speaking and listening. The student obviously has been delayed too long in the inefficient process of learning. The situation is worsened when he is taught during the secondary school years by incompetent and poorly qualified teachers of English.