(Head of TARG) I’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, Prentice Hall) focusing on key classroom teaching skills such as explaining and giving instructions, Much Ado about English (2006, Nicholas Brealey) – “fun and thought-provoking”, according to goodreads, and Discourse Topics (2016, John Benjamins) – “the volume is inspirational and makes a major contribution to the growing literature on discourse analysis”, according to a review in Discourse Studies. I’ve also published numerous articles in a wide range of journals, some serious and influential, others more playful reflecting my belief that research is an enjoyable endeavor led by curiosity.

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. In the beginning of my research career, I believed that research should be objective and quantifiable. However, I found it later that only quantitative studies might not give me everything I really wanted to know. To gain deep understanding of human interactions, qualitative studies would help. I do research based on my curiosity. Yes, I always ask questions and try to get reasonable answers in a systematic way. This is what doing research means to me.

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 written a book chapter for Cambridge Scholars Publishing and published in TCI journals (e.g. Journal of Human Sciences, REFLections, and Manutsat Paritat) as well as international ones (e.g. TESOL Quarterly, Asian EFL Journal, and Communication and Linguistic Studies).

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. In addition to keyness, I enjoy doing (and have published) research in a range of topics relating to academic language, English language teaching and learning, and teacher professional development with the application of corpus methods in recent work. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to learn and expand my knowledge in such a wide variety of areas and this is a privilege of being a researcher.

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, and from state institutions to private corporations. It became a source of interest to me how learners and educators across the entire educational spectrum face similar challenges. As a researcher, I am interested in how educators can be helped to achieve success in their professional work. To do this, I find I work best with qualitative data: it offers a rich and varied window into the lived experiences of our complex world. My research has been published in such prestigious journals as Applied Linguistics and Reflective Practice.

I have been working in academic field for a few years. My main interests include language teaching, testing and assessment. After I got a chance to work on tons of qualitative data in both Thai and English, the way to deal with those stuff impressed me a lot. I would love to experience more about this sort of paradigm, therefore, I join this research group with the expectation to learn, try and explore something different and advanced from the superior experts in this group.

I am a lecturer of English at KMUTT, where I have grown and pursued my interests in doing research, especially that in the area of Applied Linguistics. As a research enthusiast, I always enjoy learning new things. There is a bunch of stuff I do now: I co-created the English courses for undergraduate students in the languaging series, participated in a range of research projects, and published a number of research articles covering ELT and corpus-based studies. As such, my backgrounds in the academic field have ideologically informed my view on doing research, which is that research challenges, while stretching, your ability to come up with new ideas for new possibilities.

Over the last 20 years, I have worked as an EFL teacher and coordinator for international affairs in China, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand. Currently, I am working as an Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Studies, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. As a PhD graduate in Applied Linguistics and lecturer in SoLA at KMUTT, I feel blessed for being nurtured and inspired to better myself by my teachers, colleagues, and doctoral siblings as well as many great scholars in regional and global academia. As a passionate researcher, I enjoy doing research on discourse analysis in general. My MA research was on classroom-seminar discourse in terms of participatory acts and communication strategies. My PhD research was on face-to-face supervisory discourse regarding knowledge construction and power manifestations. Later on, I have developed a new passion for classroom critical discourse analysis and thematic analysis in particular. Over last five years, I have published in international journals like Reflective Practice, The Qualitative Report, Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, and System. As a positive and always-on-the-way learner, I keep upgrading myself along the time as I believe the snail keeps crawling up to her goals in all seasons.