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Eric A. Ambele – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
English users naturally exhibit a diverse range of accents when they interact in real-world situations where English serves as a common language for communication among people from various cultural backgrounds. This research, therefore, delves into the attitudes of Thai English major undergraduate students across three programs regarding the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Yusop Boonsuk – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
The rapid transformation of English linguistic landscapes has introduced the world to newly emerging English varieties or World Englishes, which are not typically employed in the Inner Circle. To address the defying phenomenon, this qualitative study explored the perceptions of Thai university lecturers on World Englishes, Thai English and the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Boonsuk, Yusop; Ambele, Eric A. – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
English nowadays serves as a global lingua franca (ELF) for diverse ethno-lingua users. This research aims to explore how Southern Thai university student's view ELF, and its integration into English language teaching (ELT) in Thailand where English is used as a foreign language (EFL). 250 students from five southern-Thai universities purposely…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Universities
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Satienchayakorn, Natakorn; Grant, Rachel – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2023
'Race applied to human beings is a "political" division: it is a system of governing people that classifies them into a social hierarchy based on invented biological demarcations' (Roberts, 2011, p. x). Foregrounding our racialized histories, we show how our lives "intersect" in a doctoral seminar in Thailand. Combining…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Political Attitudes
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Hansen Edwards, Jette G. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The current study examines how and why speakers of English from multilingual contexts in Asia are identifying as native speakers of English. Eighteen participants from different contexts in Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, India, Taiwan, and The Philippines, who self-identified as native speakers of English participated in hour-long interviews…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kanoksilapatham, Budsaba – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2016
The exigencies of globalization and AEC integration provide an impetus for this paper. In this paper, two major questions are addressed. One, what will happen to the standard varieties of English as a vehicular language for international communication, when the spread of English continues towards global communication? Two, what will happen to a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Improvement