The purposes of this paper were 1) to investigate grade 1 and 4 students’ performance on English listening, speaking, reading, writing skills including grammar 2) to determine whether their thinking skills are developed ...
This research aims to analyze the composition of roadside restaurant signs in the
Yaowarat and Chatuchak districts of Bangkok. Using a semiotic landscape approach, the data
was collected from 47 restaurant signs in ...
This article aims to analyze Jujaka’s face threatening strategies against addressees in
Mahavessantara Jataka, 13-Sermon Mahajati using face threatening criteria of Brown and
Levinson (1987). The results show that Jujaka ...
The research attempts to account for the problematic Thai sounds produced by Sgaw Karen students in Tanowsri, Rachaburi province. The data exhibit seven phonological phenomena: 1) Complex onset deletion 2) Overgeneralization ...
In this paper, I adopt Best’s (2001) Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) to account for how Thai learners acquire
English prepositions in prepositional phrases and propose the ranking order of English preposition acquisition ...
This paper provides the first analysis of focus particles in Thai. Two types of
focus particles are introduced: exclusives and additives (scalar and non-scalar
additives). The interpretation of these particles invokes a ...
Communication via online social network has generated many graphicons. Stickers and
memes are popular graphicons among Thai social network users. This research aims to analyze
Thai users’ purposes of using stickers and ...
Communication through the application Line is a very popular in Thailand since it is like
talking face to face. However, the ease of communication sometimes leads to
misunderstandings. In this research, we analyze the ...
This paper presents an in-depth examination of Thai wh-expressions as
variables. I claim that wh-expressions are variables with no inherent interrogative force. As variables, they acquire clifferent interpretations in ...
This paper is concerned with reduced contrastive wh-clefts and reduced
identificational wh-clefts. I argue that cases of apparent wh-movement of bare
wh-expressions are instances of reduced contrastive wh-clefts and ...
Thai tones have traditionally been characterized in terms of a correlation between
tones and syllable type (Gandour 1974, Tumtavitikul 1993, Intrasri 2001, Morin
and Zsiga 2006). However, I show that a more interesting ...