The importance of English in Thai society and in technology
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The Thai government has to modify the progressive policy to reinforce global issues for developing countries as world economic development. In other words, if each country integrates the growth of the economy, it reduces the poverty of the population. Because the Thai government's efforts to promote the English language plays as the most significant tool for communication worldwide and it is expanded unstoppable by all users. Generally, Thai people are more interested in learning English which makes them easy to communicate with foreigners who come along with the growth of tourism, trade and investment. Moreover, it was obvious that English is used for education, economy, trade, technology, etc. The purpose of this article aims to describe two functions of English in Thailand both the importance of English in Thai society and the importance of English in technology. In this article, the author also proposed English users from different of various purposes such as the importance of technology (CALL) program that is a kind of the technological teaching aids for teaching foreign languages around the world.
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