Upload
osborn-hoover
View
222
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Sutraphorn Tantiniranat (Khwan) The Manchester Institute of Education
The University of Manchester
The ASEAN Context of Intercultural Communication: Roles and Purposes of Thai ELT
Thailand and the ‘single ASEAN’ economic
community
Implications for English language teaching in ASEAN and Thailand
English as the regional and global lingua franca
for intercultural communication
About me
The working language of ASEAN shall be English.
(ARTICLE 34, ASEAN CHARTER)
Introduction
PhD topic: TESOL Purposes and Paradigms
in an Intercultural Age: Practitioner Perspectives
from a Thai University
TESOL
ICCthr
uTESOL
ICC
Thailand in ASEAN
Cultural globalization and implications on
English language education (Kumaravadivelu, 2008, Kachru, 1996)
TESOL
Critical stance of TESOL (e.g. Widdowson, 1994; Pennycook, 1999, Holliday
1999, 2005; Kumaravadivelu, 2008; Alptekin, 2002; Jenkins, 2007)
Appropriate Methodology (Holliday, 1994)
How I situate my study and position myself
Intercultural Communication (Competence)
(e.g. Byram, 1997; Gudykunst and Mody, 2002; Deardorff, 2009 )
Intercultural Communication through English
(e.g. Fay et al., 2010; Sifakis, 2004;Alptekin, 2002 )
Thailand within ASEANEconomic Community
1) To see the extent to which the concerns for intercultural communication within Thailand and ASEAN are discussed;
2) To study the ways in which the notion of Intercultural (Communicative) Competence is described or might mean by the top level discourse; and3) To look for possible implications for the roles of Thai TESOL practitioners like myself.
What I’m currently working on: Policy documents analysis Aims
1) are now emerginge.g. การทำ�างานข้�ามวัฒนธรรม [cross-cultural working], ทำกษะในการติ�ดติ�อสื่��อสื่ารข้�ามวัฒนธรรม [cross-cultural communication skills] and ‘inter-cultural skill’
2) co-occur with ‘working or employment opportunity’3) co-occur with ‘English ability’ but not as a part of
Policy documents analysis
Initial findingsThe concerns for intercultural communication and ICC…
4) ICC in the policy discourse include:• Respect for / understand / appreciate different
cultures (languages and religions);• Recognize/ understand/ accept/ value
multiculturalism, multiple identities;• Having an open worldview; and• Being aware of (and being responsible for) being a
member (citizen) of ASEAN and world community.
Initial findings (Cont.)
Policy documents analysis
Conclusions
•The concerns for ‘intercultural communication’ and ICC are ‘emergent’ in the policy discourse.
•Next steps: to figure out how these findings could inform the role of Thai ELT (and to fit in my PhD!)
•Fieldwork in September to explore teacher perspectives. ข้อบคุ�ณคุะ
Thank you for your attention.