Recieved a certificate from The Australian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand, H.E. Mr. Paul Grigson.
I'm thinking about posting biographies of people who success in their lives and can be good role models for you. Therefore, I will write about them, one person a week so that you can learn how those people can reach their dreams and achieve their goals. I really hope that you will be inspired and think about yourselves.
Today I would like to introduce you to one of my students who is also my niece. Her name is Ladawan Hengwichitkul. You can see her messages on this blog sometimes. I decided to write about her firstly because she is a kind of person who doesn’t come from a perfect background, but a negative attitude toward English. She hated English and didn’t think she could study it because she thought that she was not good at it. Once when she was in the 9th grade (matthayom 3), she was informed by her English teacher that she failed her midterm exam. She was so sad that she didn’t want to study anymore. I talked to her and told her that if she did a great effort and believed in herself, she could pass it. Luckily, she believed me. She did her task commitment and kept discipline to practice her English every day. Finally, she did not only pass it, she also has been the top of English subject since then. This may be a reason why she chose to study English as her major when she went to the university.
In her working life, she used to work at one of famous private schools in Bangkok as a head of Innovation and International Projects to build up online learning network with schools in other countries and also worked for Srinakharinwirot University where she earned her Master's Degree in English.
Ladawan is now studying in Australia. She received a scholarship from Australian government to undertake the Interactive Digital Media Games at Southbank Institute of Technology in Brisbane, Queensland. She received several awards including the Thailand Think.com Teacher Challenge2008, Microsoft Innovative Teacher Leadership Awards 2007, the Thailand Animation & Multimedia Awards 2005. She also received a scholarship to take the online Professional Development Course in the Teaching of Foreign Language and Second Languages by using ICT as Tools in 2008 from the USA.
Surprisingly, even if she has very good English skills, as my opinion, she still practices her English every day by reading English novels, listening to audio books, writing a journal and imitating native speaker’s accent from the T.V. I told you a lot about her because I want you to know that you can be like her or more than her, if you think you can and do a GREAT effort to achieve what you really want. So...let’s start it now.
Scholarship Link:
http://www.ozthaialumni.in.th/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=223
