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Aran Sahrai; Sutraphorn Tantiniranat – THAITESOL Journal, 2024
Native English speakers' accents are generally regarded as ideal models of English accents. However, in real-world communication, where English is used as a lingua franca for intercultural communication among people from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, English users inevitably encounter a wide variety of accents. This paper presents…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Metalinguistics, North American English
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Mark Bedoya Ulla; Jeng Jeng Mandolado Bolintao; Pavirasa Praditsorn – English in Education, 2024
This article examines the prevalence of white privilege and supremacy in the context of English education in Thailand by presenting an auto-ethnographic exploration of the raciolinguistic experiences of a Filipino English language teacher. It explores the macro, meso, and micro levels contributing to the prevalence of monolingual ideologies and…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ambele, Eric A.; Boonsuk, Yusop – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2021
The global spread of English nowadays has led to a shifted role in the use of English as an international lingua franca in expanding-circle contexts like Thailand. The purpose of this study was therefore to examine Thai university students' attitudes towards their own Thai-English accent, in addition to how the notion of standard language ideology…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Positive Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Asians
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Suntornsawet, Jirada – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
The expansion of the English language produced by non-native speakers has, in recent decades, been discussed by applied linguists from various theoretical perspectives. The discussion has highlighted evidence showing that the multiplicity and diversity of English uses have given rise to an acceleration in the rate of inter-variety contacts where…
Descriptors: Thai, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Boonsamritphol, Navarat – English Language Teaching, 2022
The aims of this study were 1) to examine the effectiveness of the World Englishes instructional model in enabling students to improve their listening comprehension towards varieties of English, and 2) to investigate students' attitudes towards the use of the World Englishes instructional model. The methodology of this study followed a…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Boonsamritphol, Navarat; Rungrojsuwan, Sorabud – English Language Teaching, 2021
This research aimed to develop the World Englishes instructional model to enhance students' listening comprehension of varieties of English. The student's needs analysis was conducted in the first step of the study to gather data concerning the needs, problems, and opinions on teaching and learning English listening. Thirty students participated…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Inkaew, Manachai – rEFLections, 2018
To study the success of an international event handling in Thailand with a focus on the area of mutual communication, this paper aimed to shed light on how English is used as a lingua franca among the local Thai working team and the organizer team who are non-native speakers from different language backgrounds to achieve their mutual understanding…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Intercultural Communication, Competition
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Suebsook, Khwanchanok; Adunyarittigun, Dumrong – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2016
The rise of medical tourism and the increasing number of international patients from Asian countries have led Thai healthcare professionals to serve a lot of Asian patients and to encounter a complexity of language use in their workplace. There is a necessity for these professionals to strive for an understanding of Asian accents spoken by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Occupations, Foreign Nationals, Patients
Wilang, Jeffrey Dawala; Teo, Adisa – Online Submission, 2012
The purpose of this study is to measure the comprehensibility of the Expanding Circle nations' citizens, namely Burmese, Cambodians, Indonesians, Laotians, Thais and Vietnamese towards the Outer Circle Englishes, namely Bruneian English, Malaysian English. Philippine English and Singaporean English. Ten universities in the Expanding Circle that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation