This chapter aims to provide information about Thai English, an English in the Expanding Circle, as a possible emerging variety of world Englishes. Firstly, an overview of English which is a foreign language in Thailand is provided in terms of its use, users, and its influential status. Secondly, distinctive features of Thai English are presented. Finally, a conclusion on how Thai English can be viewed as a new variety of world Englishes is drawn.
2024. English in Thailand. In The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes, ► pp. 311 ff.
Zein, Subhan
2024. English ideologies in ASEAN. In The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes, ► pp. 120 ff.
Jocuns, Andrew
2022. ‘Uhh I’m not trying to be racist or anything’: exploring an indexical field of Thai English. Asian Englishes 24:1 ► pp. 9 ff.
Liu, Yiqi
2022. Exploring bilingual learners’ desires in English-medium studies: evidence from a Thai private bilingual school. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 25:1 ► pp. 80 ff.
Bolton, Kingsley & John Bacon‐Shone
2020. The Statistics of English across Asia. In The Handbook of Asian Englishes, ► pp. 49 ff.
Pechapan‐Hammond, Sawitri
2020. English in Thailand. In The Handbook of Asian Englishes, ► pp. 629 ff.
Sundkvist, Peter & Xuan Nhat Chi Mai Nguyen
2020. English in Vietnam. In The Handbook of Asian Englishes, ► pp. 683 ff.
Jaroensak, Tiraporn & Mario Saraceni
2019. ELF inThailand: Variants and Coinage in Spoken ELF in Tourism Encounters. rEFLections 26:1 ► pp. 115 ff.
Knox, John S.
2019. Thais, Foreigners, and Englishes: Communicative Differences in Spoken Exchanges. In Discourses of Southeast Asia [The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, ], ► pp. 165 ff.
Low, Ee Ling
2019. English in Southeast Asia. In The Handbook of World Englishes, ► pp. 135 ff.
McKenzie, Robert M., Patchanok Kitikanan & Phaisit Boriboon
2016. The competence and warmth of Thai students’ attitudes towards varieties of English: the effect of gender and perceptions of L1 diversity. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37:6 ► pp. 536 ff.
PEREZ, DANAE
2016. English and language shift in Paraguay's New Australia. World Englishes 35:1 ► pp. 160 ff.
McKenzie, Robert M.
2015. The sociolinguistics of variety identification and categorisation: free classification of varieties of spoken English amongst non-linguist listeners. Language Awareness 24:2 ► pp. 150 ff.
SCHNEIDER, EDGAR W.
2014. New reflections on the evolutionary dynamics of world Englishes. World Englishes 33:1 ► pp. 9 ff.
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2013. Reference Guide for Varieties of English. In A Dictionary of Varieties of English, ► pp. 363 ff.
2023. References. In Sounds of English Worldwide, ► pp. 354 ff.
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