SOCIOECONOMIC CAMP CULTURAL LEARNING PROGRAMME

Volunteers will be an English teacher, facilitator and friends to our students in various English activities called socioeconomic and cultural learning programme at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Economics, Thaksin University. 1. We aim to encourage our Economics students to practice their English with foreigners at least once a week. 2. Each volunteer will be assigned to talk to our students on different topics including 2.1) General information of his or her country and hometown 2.2) The economy aspects such as important products, main exports etc. 2.3) Social and cultural aspects such as ways of greetings, leisure activities, food culture and so on 2.4) Other topics which related to volunteer’s interests such as sport, tourism, life experience, hometown etc. 3. Each volunteer could show some pictures related to the talk and then discuss or ask some questions to students. Student group: Volunteers will be working with 2nd to 4th-year Economics students in these modules: 1) English for Economists 1 2) English for Economists 2 (2nd semester) 3) English for Economists 3 4) World Economy 5) Thai Economy (Tourism part) 6) Introduction to Economic Research (Interview practice) Outdoor activities and excursion: We sometimes take our students to do some activities in the community, the city center, and some tourist destinations. By doing so, our students tend to be more relaxed and easier to lear