Attitudes of Thai graduates toward English as a Lingua Franca of ASEAN
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Author list: Ploywattanawong P., Trakulkasemsuk W.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
Publication year: 2014
Journal: Asian Englishes : An International Journal of the Sociolinguistics of English in Asia/Pacific (1348-8678)
Volume number: 16
Issue number: 2
Start page: 141
End page: 156
Number of pages: 16
ISSN: 1348-8678
eISSN: 2331-2548
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
Abstract
This study was conducted with the aim of understanding the attitudes of Thai graduates towards English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in ASEAN, in terms of its acceptability and understandability. Fifty Thai graduate students of King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), whose fields of study were related to engineering, science, and technology, were asked to give responses to different distinct grammatical features of ASEAN ELF. The results, in general, indicate that most of the features received neutral judgment for acceptability. That is, the deviated ASEAN ELF grammatical features were neither completely accepted nor rejected. Furthermore, in terms of understandability, none of the ASEAN ELF grammatical features posed any problems for Thai graduates. The findings lead to a possible conclusion that even though the distinct ASEAN grammatical features are not yet fully accepted, they do not at all harm communication. Thus, the use of ASEAN ELF should not be avoided. © 2014, © 2014 Taylor & Francis.
Keywords
ASEAN ELF, distinct grammatical features, Thai graduates
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