Change Implementation in TEFL at Primary Level in Thailand:

This paper is aimed at sharing views on TEFL at a primary level in Thailand in terms of change implementation at classroom level, particularly on the utilisation of the 2008 Basic Education Core Curriculum under the second decade of the national education reform which has proved that change in education takes time. No one knows what is going on during the process of change; moreover change in terms of implementing new policies under the 1999 National Education Act (2002 Amendment) is definitely uncontrollable in real practice. Even though educational change has been implemented in Thailand since 1999, the Ordinary National Education Test (O-NET) Report unveils students’ low learning achievement in English (core) subject continuously. Such results give policy makers lessons that change is a complex process; no one can mandate change; or have control over teachers; only the delivery of clear change concepts and knowledge of how to implement change in curriculum, learning materials, teaching strategies and teachers’ beliefs under the strong support from change facilitators could make the real change in TEFL at primary level in Thailand to happen. Most of all, teachers are the heart of change.