Browsing GSLC: Theses by Title
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A genre analysis in english editorials regarding hard news in broadsheet and tabloid newspapers
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2012)
This study presents a genre analysis of English editorials regarding hard news in broadsheet and tabloid newspapers focusing on move analysis. It aims to investigate structural organization of those editorials through examination of common move structures, the similar and different attributes in the move structures of the genre, and communicating intentions of the genre. The data consist of 30 English editorial texts of broadsheet newspaper and 30 texts of tabloid newspaper. Analysis of the moves reveals that there is one common move structure ... -
A genre analysis of english and korean research paper abstracts in electronic resource management in library and information science
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2016)
This study aims to answer how the journal article abstract currently represents the main text of the journal article and what role the abstract plays. It also attempts to clarify how the structure of abstracts in Korean and English is different in the same academic area. In order to address this issue systematically, this study examines the textual organization of selected journal article abstracts in library and information science. Specifically, it focuses on the investigation of rhetorical structures and linguistic realizations based on ... -
Attitudes and motivation in English language learning : A case study of Attarkiah Islamiah School
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2014)
The research aims at studying the attitudes and motivation in English as a foreign language learning of Thai secondary school students. The study sits within the theoretical framework of constructivist theory taking into account Gardner’s attitude and motivation in language learning. The study considers students’ motivation in English language learning into 2 motives: instrumental and integrative motivation. Participants of this study are 239 Mathayomsuksa 5 students (Grade 11) and 10 English language teachers from Attarkiah Islamiah School. ... -
Christianity and english language teaching: a case study of christian missionary teachers in Thailand
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2016)
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 ... -
Critical discourse analysis of news headlines : a case of youth crime in Thailand
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2013)
This study is a critical investigation of the language used in the front page headlines of popular newspapers in Thailand regarding news that involves physical violence committed by young people. The purposes of this study are to discover the discursive features of the language used in the news headlines; to expose the ideology of news practitioners reflected in the headlines; and to expose the social identities of the teenagers that these headlines construct in society. There were 97 front page headlines used as the data of this study. These ... -
Discourse on poverty in Thai politics : a case of PM Thaksin's talk
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Discursive strategies used in Thai Daily Newspapers : a case of the Government's Water Management News
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2012)
Drawing uponCritical Discourse Analysis CDA his study investigates the discursive strategies used by Thai daily newspapers to present news about the government’s water management. The purposes are to identify discursive strategies employed in the presentation of the government’s endeavor to anage the water crisis in 2011, to find outwhichthe discursive strategy predominates in this presentation and to investigate the functions of these strategies in constructing the public’s image of the government. In all,30 extractsof the government’s water ... -
English-Thai translation strategies of similes and metaphors in the merchant of Venice
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2018)
This study aims to analyze the strategies used in the translation of English similes and metaphors in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice into the Thai version called Venice Vanich by H.M. King Rama VI based on the frameworks of Pierini’s (2007) translation strategies of simile and Newmark’s (1981) translation strategies of metaphor. Moreover, Baker’s (2011) notions of the problems of non-equivalence at word level and translation strategies for dealing with non-equivalence at word level are employed to analyze the translation of the ... -
Environmental influences on competence in English as a foreign language : A study of Thai undergraduates at an international university in Thailand
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2013)
This study is designed in an attempt to examine the ideal and the actual university learning environment in relation to English language learning and to investigate the actual environmental influence on the students’ English language competence. This is to understand why a number of Thai university students of English-medium instruction programs are still unable to attain high levels of English proficiency despite engaging in an English-medium education system. An interpretive approach was used to conduct interviews with 10 teachers and 15 ... -
Genre analysis of written confessions in China's tertiary education : an investigation of moves and cross-cultural variation
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2012)
Genre analysis has been established as a relatively mature academic research approach. Constellations of genres have been identified especially in the realms of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes). The current study investigates written confessions in China’s tertiary education, which is, to the best of my knowledge, little known to the academic world as a genre. It aims to identify the move patterns of written confessions as a cross-cultural variation and marginalized genre in the specific Chinese context. ... -
Inclusion of the minority language on public signs: multilingualism in the deep South of Thailand
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2018)
This study of linguistic landscape (LL) aims to describe the urban multilingual practices through signs seen in the southernmost Thai communities with a specific focus on the inclusion of Patani-Malay, a minority language, yet a mother tongue of the majority of people in the areas on public signs. This study also examines people’s perceptions of languages on signs including Patani-Malay. 1,746 photos of text signs were collected from 18 streets in total: 3 main streets and 3 minor streets of each Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat central city. Data ... -
L2 Writing processes of Thai graduate students
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2018)
This research article aims to discover L2 writing processes of Thai graduate students using the model of composing processes by Chenoweth and Hayes (2003). The participants were six graduate students from the Graduate School of Language and Communication. The participants were given an English argumentative writing task to complete while being observed through the use of the think-aloud protocol (TAP). Later, the participants were interviewed immediately after finishing the writing task. The finding validates the model of composing processes ... -
Speech act analysis of British and American poetry
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2010)
Usually, when learning poetry, students are encouraged to let their imagination run wild and consider elements relating to a poem, such as historical background, the poet’s biography, and figures of speech to come up with the literary interpretation. However, this traditional way of learning poetry is too ideal, complicated, and difficult, especially for new poetry students. The purpose of this study was to apply a supporting device, speech act theory, in the linguistics field to learn poetry in the literature field. Felicity conditions of ... -
Strategies and challenges in translating english idioms into Thai in Hillary Clinton's memoir hard choices
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2017)
The present study aimed to explore the strategies used in translating from English into Thai the idiomatic expressions used by Hilary Rodham Clinton in her memoir Hard Choices. The strategies for dealing with idiom translation proposed by Baker (2011) were adopted as the framework for data analysis in which the nature and frequency of use of each strategy were determined. The challenges in translating from English into Thai the idiomatic expressions and the strategies the translator employed in the translated version called ชีวิตและทางเลือก (Life ... -
Students and teacher's views on a multimodal approach to English reading skill development of Thai EFL students in a university context
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2019)
This study aims to explore the NPRU students’ views on how English reading skills were taught through the use of a traditional teaching approach, investigate the NPRU students’ views on how the teacher teaches English reading skills through the use of a multimodal approach, and find out what the NPRU students and the teacher have experienced from the use of the two different approaches. The results from the use of questionnaire surveys and semi-structured interviews show that most students felt very uncomfortable with the use of the traditional ... -
Teachers' understanding of english as an international language
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Thai prime minister's weekly televised addresses in ideological and pentadic criticism
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2018)
The purpose of this study was to examine how General Prayut Chan-O-cha, Prime Minister of Thailand, employed rhetoric in weekly televised address broadcasted from May 30, 2014 to December 16, 2016. This study adopted two concepts, which are pentadic criticism and ideological criticism, to examine 41 pieces of Thai Prime Minister’s weekly televised addresses. The findings revealed that General Prayut Chan-O-cha paid most of his attention on Thailand’s political and economic dreadlocks and saw himself as the country’s savior amid the turmoil, ... -
Thai students and teachers' perceptions of learning and teaching english through the communicative language teaching approach
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2016)
This study is designed in attempt to explore Thai students and teachers’ perceptions of English learning and teaching through the communicative language teaching approach (CLT) in Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 2, and to compare students and teachers’ perceptions of English learning and teaching through the communicative language teaching approach. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used in the study. The researcher used a quantitative questionnaire survey to explore 295 students and 20 teachers’ perceptions of ... -
The effectiveness of vocabulary learning strategies from the views of efl students and teachers in the Thai learning contex
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2014)
The purposes of this research were to explore which Vocabulary Learning Strategies (VLS) were perceived to be effective among the learners who have different English learning achievement, and which strategies were actually used by learners who have high achievement in Vocabulary Learning (VL). Another purpose was to investigate the perception of the Mattayom.2 English teachers about the significance of VLS in language learning achievement. The research utilised a mix-method approach withThe research utilised a mix-method approach with a ... -
The media's influence on success and failure of dialects : The case of Cantonese and Shaan'xi dialects
; (National Institute of Development Administration, 2013)
In this thesis the researcher addresses an important set of issues - how language maintenance (LM) between dominant and vernacular varieties of speech (also known as dialects) - are conditioned by increasingly globalized mass media industries. In particular, how the television and film industries (as an outgrowth of the mass media) related to social dialectology help maintain and promote one regional variety of speech over others is examined. These issues and data addressed in the current study have the potential to make a contribution to ...