A Practical Learning Tool for Traffic Police Officers in Chiang Mai, Thailand
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This article is a part of the research titled “Development of a Self-Access Learning Package to Enhance Communicative English Listening and Speaking Skills of Traffic Police Officers in Upper Northern Thailand”. The objective of this article is to illustrate the necessity and functionality of such a learning tool to improve the English communicative skills, which can be used by traffic police officers (TPOs) in order to fulfill their job requirements. Furthermore, the article discusses Phase I of the project, which entails information regarding ways to create a learning tool by integrating the results of the research. This study employed a survey design to administer observations, interviews, and questionnaires in order to investigate the challenges and needs of English communication among 100 TPOs in 8 provinces of the upper northern Thailand. Moreover, the article focuses on Phase II of this project, which contains information regarding the use and the application of this learning tool. The application of this tool was determined by assessing the impact on 60 TPOs in Chiang Mai, Thailand in a 1-day workshop with the goal to improve their shortcoming in specific vocabulary while on duty, to enhance their knowledge of English when attempting to understand various accents of native English speakers, and finally to develop the speed of speaking which affects their ability to listen and to speak while communicating with foreigners. This article also reveals Phase III of using this learning tool in order to narrow down the challenges of 51 TPOs from Chiang Mai Traffic Police Station during a 2-day workshop in an English communicative training course to improve the lack of vocabulary and the specific terms, difficulties in English pronunciation and their mispronunciation, as well as their shortcoming in English grammar.
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