Abstract:

Speaking is the skill that most Thai students lack of opportunity to use because English is not used as the official language in Thailand. However; in all levels of education here, speaking is still added in all English subjects. For the university level, students are trained to speak English in several ways based on the subject they are studying. This study aims to encourage the unconfident freshmen in Faculty of Management Science to be ready to practice speaking skills through various activities. There are two main focuses to be presented on this paper. The first one is the appropriate methods to get students to speak up which was presented in the model form and the other one is students’ perceptions towards this model. The results of this study would be guidelines for teachers who are teaching speaking skills for unconfident students in university level. And, it is also beneficial for the researcher to know her students’ perceptions towards her teaching methods. So, this would allow her to improve her speaking lesson then.

Keywords:

Unconfident students, students’ perceptions, teaching speaking skills, ECRIF framework