Background: Children with delayed speech and language development are at considerable risk for later language impairment, social and behavioural problems, and illiteracy. Early diagnosis is needed for intervention planning and prevention. However, a speech and language test for Thai children has not been available. Aims: To establish a Thai Speech…

Teaching mixed methods research is difficult. This longitudinal explanatory study examined how two classes were designed, taught, and evaluated. Curriculum, Research, and Teaching (EDCS-606) and Mixed Methods Research (EDCS-780) used a research proposal generation process to highlight the importance of the purpose, research question and…

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to ascertain students' perceptions on quality of services provided by private universities in Thailand and Japan and how these affected decisions selecting a university. A comparative study aims to focus on how cultural and economic factors affected their decisions. Design/methodology/approach: Research design…

"Talk-in-interaction: Multilingual perspectives" offers original studies of interaction in a range of languages and language varieties, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, and Vietnamese; monolingual and bilingual interactions; and activities designed for second or foreign language learning. Conducted…

THE PRINCIPAL AIM OF THIS DICTIONARY IS TO PROVIDE A CONVENIENT REFERENCE WORK FOR THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING STUDENT OF THAI. THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF INFORMATION ARE CONTAINED WITH EACH ENTRY--(1) THE TRADITIONAL THAI SPELLING, (2) A CAREFULLY WORKED OUT PHONEMIC TRANSCRIPTION USING ROMAN LETTERS, (3) AN ABBREVIATION DESIGNATING THE WORD CLASS, WHERE…

This paper discusses a problem in semantic analysis of modern standard Thai. The synchronically polysememic morpheme /cay/ has meanings approximately equivalent to English "heart, mind, spirit" and "breath." A purely descriptive approach to this form would require two separate dictionary entries for /cay/. An examination of the…

THIS REPORT CONTAINS A PAPER ON RYUKYUAN-JAPANESE LANGUAGE DIVERSITY AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE LANGUAGES OF THE KHAM-THAI FAMILY FOUND IN THAILAND, CAMBODIA, LAOS, VIETNAM, INDIA, AND SOUTHEAST CHINA. (THE REPORT IS PART OF A SERIES, ED 010 350 TO ED 010 367.) (JK)

With all the music that is available for instrumental performance in the schools, the music of Thailand is under-represented. Yet Thailand has a rich instrumental tradition. This article focuses on the possibilities of adapting the Thai "mahori" and "kruang sai" ensembles to the western instrumentation available in school music…

Analysis of Taiwanese tone sandhi, i.e., the various changes in tonemes as a result of their mutual influence on each other when used in conjunction. (RS)

The ability of native English (NE) and native Chinese (NC) speakers to identify and discriminate the mid-versus the lowtone contrast in Thai was investigated before and after auditory training. The variables under investigation were first language background and the interstimulus interval (ISI) of the presentation (500 ms vs. 1500 ms). The NC…

To support student learning in biochemistry and related courses, a simulation program, the Protein Purification Program, offers an alternative multimedia-based tool. This program has now been translated to produce a Thai version. However, translation from the original into the Thai language is limited by the differences between the language…

The present study reports preliminary findings on the elicitation strategies used by Thai and English caretakers when eliciting past event narratives from pre-schoolers. Ten Thai and ten English-speaking caretaker-child dyads were recruited from Bangkok, Thailand and from Sydney, Australia. Caretakers were asked to elicit past event narratives…

An examination is made of the f o, or "pitch," contours which underly the five tones of Thai in an effort to describe their shapes and compare these descriptions with those of earlier phonetic accounts of the tones. (Author/RM)

A REFERENCE GRAMMAR FOR THE THAI LANGUAGE IS PROVIDED. THE MAIN STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF STANDARD SPOKEN THAI ARE OUTLINED AND ELABORATED BY SUBCLASSIFICATION AND EXAMPLE. IN ADDITION, AN INDEX OF MINOR FORM-CLASS MEMBERS IS PROVIDED. THE APPROACH TO CLASSIFICATION OF GRAMMATICAL FEATURES FOLLOWS CURRENT TECHNIQUES OF AMERICAN DESCRIPTIVE…

A SURVEY OF REFERENCE MATERIALS ON THE ORAL PRODUCTION OF THE "TH" SOUNDS IN ENGLISH (THE INITIAL SOUNDS IN "THY" AND "THIGH") REVEALS A CERTAIN CONFUSION AND DISAGREEMENT. DIFFICULTIES ARISE CONCERNING NOT ONLY THE DESCRIPTION OF THESE TWO PHONEMES, BUT THE MANNER IN WHICH THEY SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO NONNATIVE SPEAKERS. THE PARTICULAR PROBLEMS…