According to [1], oral proficiency in a foreign language –
especially English – can serve as an additional advantage for
people seeking employment in business, industrial,
governmental and educational sectors. In other words,
knowledge of a foreign language might boost their chances of
getting employed. This idea may have a link with the view
that people, who have high ability in the English language
speaking skill, equally have a better chance in working in the
top international companies in Thailand. Another comment in
this regard holds that though the ability to speak English is a
necessary condition for workers in their workplaces, yet Thais
generally do not have a high enough level of proficiency to
perform well in speaking English [2].
More so, acquisition of a foreign language especially as
regards speaking skill seems to be a difficult task in school or
educational setting. For learners to become competent in
communicating via a foreign language, both language and
extra-language factors are involved. Firstly, language factors
might include issues of proficiency in the use of the foreign
language such as mastery of pronunciation, intonation,
stressed syllables, grammatical structure, vocabulary, sentence
formation, and appropriate situations to apply them. Hence,
the learner ought to acquire the grammatical knowledge and
also, know the appropriate situations to use it – emphases on