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The purpose of this study is to investigate influences and correlations between the Christian faith and English language teaching in Thailand. Central research questions explore the religious beliefs leading Evangelical Christian teachers to integrate their Christian faith and how the participants make such integrations into their classroom management strategies. Fifteen missionary teachers in a Christian language school in Bangkok were selected for this investigation. Data were obtained by semi-structure interviews. Results have revealed...

Though a number of studies reveal different discursive techniques used by politicians during live interviews, few has been conducted in Thai political contexts. This study examines patterns of answering developed by the Thai politicians to respond to different types of questions in broadcast news interviews during an electoral campaign for Bangkok governor in 2013. With an application of conversation analysis (CA), this study also reveals the relationship between the interviewer (IR) and the interviewees’ (IEs) discursive and cooperative ...

The purposes of this study are: (1) to explore the relevant factors that affect a household’ decision making with regard to entering into contract farming; and (2) to analyze the impact of contract farming on income per adult equivalent. The sample consisted of 1,198 observations in the northern provinces of Laos People’s Democratic Republic, namely Bokeo, Luangnamtha, and Phongsaly, during 2009 to 2013, based on secondary data obtained from the Northern Rural Infrastructure Development Sector Project (NRI). Key factors that influence hou...

The research objectives of this dissertation were essentially threefold: i) to study how firms effectively pursue sustainable innovation and how innovation impacts its performance on the triple bottom line; ii) to conceptualize a strategic framework that outlines the determinants that nurture innovation from a sustainable development perspective; and iii) to establish an empirical link between “sustainability practices” and innovation performance through the pursuit of “sustainability exploitation” within current competences and “sustaina...