Head of TARGI’ve been lucky enough to live in Thailand and enjoy working at KMUTT for the past 30 years. During that time, I’ve published 3 books: Classroom Teaching Strategies (1997)

I’m interested in language and communication. By doing text analysis, I can understand how people encode and decode their meaning. I can understand what people think, how people interact, and why people choose to do such things in communication. I have my background in Engineering, before turning to Applied Linguistics.

I have been a researcher in applied linguistics for over 10 years. My special research interest is corpus linguistics, specifically keyword analysis which was also the topic of my PhD. Based on my PhD research, two of the co-authored papers with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Richard Watson Todd are Log-likelihood and odds ratio: Keyness statistics for different purposes of keyword analysis and The influence of the benchmark corpus on keyword analysis.

I am a book lover with some literature background, working for KMUTT for more than 10 years. In the early years of my research journey, literature was my main focus (literature teaching and language use/strategies in literature). Later on, I have developed a new passion for discourse analysis in general or semiotics and systemic functional linguistics (SFL) in particular.

I have spent most of my life at school in one form or another. After finishing my years as a student, I found I missed the classroom so much I became a teacher. Over my career, I have taught in twelve countries (from Australia to Vietnam) and worked with students from kindergarten to post-graduate levels

My first experience with academic research came as a computer science graduate student, where I was investigating the use of intelligent multimedia for educational software. A few years after graduating, I moved to Thailand and was fascinated by the culture and language that surrounded me.

Eager to explore new things is one of my personal description. When I have a chance to play with qualitative data both in Thai and English, it looked interesting for me to learn more how to deal with those giant size of data. Therefore, I joined this research group with the good expectation to explore something new as well as to have an opportunity to have more fun with data, programs with the expert team.