ENGLISH SKILL DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMPLOYEES IN HEMARAJ RAYONG INDUSTRIAL LAND

Abstract

          The objectives of this research article were: to investigate English skills development of the employees in Hemaraj Rayong Industrial Land classified by gender, job positions, educational level, years of employment, and income, and to make comparisons of English skill development among the employees by gender, job positions, educational level, years of employment, and income to find the problems, and guidelines for the development of the four skills of English. This was a quantitative research. The subjects in the study were 222 employees in Hemaraj Rayong Industrial Land. Taro Yamane’s formula was used for calculating the sample size. A questionnaire was used to collect the data, and the statistics used to analyzed the data were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, One-way ANOVA, and Scheffe’s method. The research findings revealed that the overall opinions of the employees in Hemaraj Rayong Industrial Land on their listening and speaking skills were at a high level because they were often used to communicate at the work place, and in their daily life, on their reading and writing skills at a moderate level because they were not often used, and the mechanism of them was more complicated. The comparisons of their four English skills development (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) classified by gender, job positions, educational level, years of employment, and income showed that there was no statistically significantly difference at the 0.05 level.