Changkid A Pratumma

Mr. Abel Cadias

English 10/08

June 5, 2019

Motivating Mahidol University International Demonstration School Grade 10

Students to Speak More English Outside Classroom

There are many international schools all around the world, including Thailand.

Most of the students in these schools do not speak English outside the class because the

environment in the school is their native language. According to Yusica (2016) Thai

government try to support all the schools in improving English especially speaking skills.

There are various ways to improve speaking skills. Some schools may be successful but

others may not. Most of them are not really successful because students have lack of

motivation. Students speak English because they were forced to do. As a result, they

cannot do it in a long period of time. One way of motivating MUIDS students to speak

more English outside the class is to give extra credit for students.

The purpose of this research report is to find out the number of students who

speak English outside the class and find ways most students agreed to motivate them to

speak more English by using a survey. This helps to find out more ways to provide school

policy based on students' opinion to motivate them to speak English outside the class.

The author uses three different sources to relate the results and interpretation of the

survey to other research studies.

 The question asked whether MUIDS’ students speak English outside the class or

not. The survey requires the students to answer between yes or no. The first figure below

shows that 60 students or 97% of students at MUIDS do not speak English outside class

while 2 students or 3% of students are speaking English outside the class. Another

question asked what can motivate those MUIDS students who did not speak English to

speak more English. The choices are activities, rules, friends and give extra credits. The

second figure below shows that most of the students at MUIDS are motivated to speak

English by giving extra credit is 28 students or 44%, followed by their friends, activities,

strict rules with number of 24, 8 and 3 students or 38%, 13% and 5% respectively. Most

of the students at MUIDS do not speak English outside of class time, meanwhile, most of

them choose to speak because of extra credit. Therefore, schools should provide extra

credit to encourage students instead of strict rules.

Speaking can help to improve student’s English in their daily life to pass all

requirements for school and universities but they need motivation. Motivation is a factor

for students who learn a second language to study harder. Most of the Thai students

motivated by scores. They are more likely to speak English if they get an additional score

(Kongsomchit, 2015). Rules are one of the choices for schools to force students to speak

English. But it cannot work without the teachers' control because they did not get any

benefit when teachers are not there (Akcan, 2017). Thus, it is important that MUIDS

should provide the policy of giving extra credit for students instead of rules to force them

to speak English outside the class. By doing this, students would speak more English
because they want to do, not what they were forced to do. This would be a benefit for

students and schools.

Figure 1: Did you speak English outside the class

Figure 2: Factors that motivate students to speak English.

The research report concludes that students can improve their English by

creating a motivation factor. Most students or 44% of students at MUIDS will be

motivated by extra credit or score, but some also were motivated by their friends. Giving

students extra credits will make some students speak more English outside the class and

they can motivate their friends to speak as well. MUIDS should motivate students to

speak English outside the class by giving extra credit to students instead of having strict

rules.
 References

Akcan, S. (2017). Bringing real-life language use into EFL classrooms . Retrieved from
ELT journal: https://academic.oup.com/eltj/article/71/1/3/2447417
Kongsomchit, S. (2015). Motivations towards speaking English outside the classroom.
Retrieved from Library: http://digi.library.tu.ac.th/thesis/lg/0634/title-appendices.pdf
Yusica, U. (2016). PROBLEM FACED BY THAI STUDENT IN SPEAKING ENGLISH.
Retrieved from Academia:
https://www.academia.edu/9423968/PROBLEM_FACED_BY_THAI_STUDENT_I
N_SPEAKING_ENGLISH