The effectiveness of using English for tourism to improve high school students' listening and speaking proficiency at Nayia Suksa Ratchamangkalapisek School

The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of using English for Tourism to improve students' listening and speaking proficiencies. 20 subjects were Mattayom 5-6 students in Nayia Suksa Ratchamangkalapisek school, Nayia sub-district, Ubon Ratchathani Province. The instruments to collect data were the pre-and post listening tests and also the speaking observation from which focused on fluency, appropriateness of uses of expression and grammatical accuracy.
The findings indicated that subjects' listening skill was rated good. However, it was found that their proficiency in speaking skill was rated as fair and poor.