The aim of this research study is to explain the English communication skills of the second year student in international program, Faculty of Humanities, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. The objectives of the study are classified into three parts as the following (1) To study the problems in English communication for the second year students who enrolled in international program, at Faculty of Humanities, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University (2) To analyze the possibility of English communication problems at the Faculty of Humanities,Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University (3) To find the possible strategies that could be utilized in real listening and speaking in order to avoid English communication problems of students at Faculty of Humanities, at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. The study is consisted of both quantitative and qualitative method. In this research, it is referred to the second year international students to develop English communication skills. To get the information from the second year M.A. students, the researcher had interviewed them and took a note as a tool to collect the information from their opinions and suggestions.

The result of this research has been found that students developed their English after second year of study at international program, Faculty of Humanities in Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. The methods of developing English communication skills are listening, speaking, reading, writing, watching English movies, or other movies with English subtitles. They also agreed that English communication skills were very necessary for their positions, and the skills of listening and speaking were the most used at work. Moreover, second year international students had evaluated themselves and the results show that they have moderate skills in English communication through speaking and listening skills. However, the results also revealed that both second year international students and English learners needed to improve their English communication skills for practicing English more both in and outside the classrooms. The findings from the research study pointed out that second year international students could speak well, but they still wanted to enhance their communication skills in order to make their audiences to be satisfied with their speech. Hence, the major problems in English communication were accent/pronunciation, using correct grammar, and using appropriate words. If the students are related with these problems, the teachers must encourage them to read more, practice more to overcome the communication problems in order to avoid misunderstanding and saving time between their friends and differences foreigners around the world.

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