Thai English Code Switching (Tecs) Within The Academic Context Of Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (Imt-Gt) Varsity Carnival
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Date
2018-12
Authors
Patcharin, Kangkha
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
This study investigates the Thai English Code Switching (TECS) within the
academic context of Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT)
Varsity Carnival as a result of the spread of English and internationalization in Thai
higher education. The study seeks to examine the linguistic features, and functions of
motivations behind the discourse used by the Thai academic seminar participants in
formal and informal academic activities in such an academic context. The study
made use of a qualitative approach in examining the data which were taken from the
audio recordings of the Thai academic seminar participants’ speeches, semistructured
interviews, and field notes. The Markedness Model of Myers-Scotton
(1993;1998), the Conversational Approach of Gumperz (1982) and World Englishes
Approach proposed by Kachru (1993) were used to analyse the speech data. The
findings revealed that the TECS features at the lexico-semantic and discourse levels
appeared in several in-group discussions and they served as a lingua franca in
addition to English in the out-group interactions.
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Thai English Code , Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand