The listening skill may be an obstacle for Thai speakers communicating in Spanish as it is for other foreign languages like English. The difficulties may be related to the two different phonological systems, therefore in this paper, we attempted to study the impact of the Thai phonology in learning Spanish. After comparing the two phonological systems we found different possible mistakes and selected some especially relevant for communication. For example, the cases of some final consonantal sounds /s/, /r/, /l/, /n/. To check the impact of this problem we conducted a study on some Thai learners’ ability to perceive these sounds. A group of 26 Thai students were asked to perform a task of pseudoword discrimination to measure their skill of perceiving Spanish sounds. We have discussed the results and proposed some solutions to the issue.

from 30 fourth year Thai Spanish Major students who study in the Spanish Department, Khon Kaen University. Making a request is one of the speech acts frequently used in human everyday life. Requests are face-threatening acts because a speaker wants

posible de la comunidad docente: 18 profesores titulares y 178 estudiantes de español, pertenecientes a las universidades de Chulalongkorn, de Khon Kaen y de Ramkhamhaeng. Con el fin de obtener información acerca de su competencia lingüística y.... The questionnaires were handed out to the most representative group of this teaching community: 18 permanent teachers and 178 Spanish students from Chulalongkorn University, Khon Kaen University and Ramkhamhaeng University. To obtain the information concerning

) to identify, classify and describe errors found in this study. The data was collected from 44 Final Spanish writing examination papers of 3rd year Spanish major students at Khon Kaen University. Error analysis of 44 writing examination papers was analyzed

surnames and Pali-Sanskrit surnames. Khon Kaen University students, Thai people from Northeast of Thailand, friends and people from South America made possible this presentation through the interviews.

. The participants consist of thirty undergraduate students from Khon Kaen University at different levels majoring in Spanish. They were interviewed in Spanish without any preparation. Of all participants, ten are second year students, ten are third year students