Innovation in Language Learning

Edition 17

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Budsaba Kanoksilapatham

Institution: Silpakorn University

Address: 6 Ratchamankha-Nai Road

Postal Code: 73000

Country: Thailand

Currently, Budsaba Kanoksilapatham is a full professor with the English Department, Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University.

She completed the bachelor’s degree in English (Hons.) at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. Upon obtaining her Master’s degree in Linguistics and EFL at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), Budsaba Kanoksilapatham joined the English Department, Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University. She proceeded to study for her doctoral degree at Georgetown University (GU), USA completing her degree in Linguistics (Concentration: Applied Linguistics) and returned to work at Silpakorn University. While working on her dissertation in the USA, she was a part-time instructor at the English Language Center, University of Maryland at Baltimore County. She completed her dissertation, with Professor Swales and Prof. Dr. Biber as her dissertation examiners.

Being passionate about discourse analysis, specifically genre analysis, and being determined to contribute to the betterment of English education of the entire paradigm in Thailand, the active engagement in academic activities including research projects and articles, textbooks, lectures and talks, and more than 24 keynote speeches both nationally and internationally has been a natural fit for her academic life. Her most recent books include Pronunciation in Action in 2018 and English Sociolinguistics at Work in 2016. A number of her research articles were published in prestigious international journals including English for Specific Purposes and The IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. Due to her distinguished contribution and dedication to the field, she was the first person in Thailand to receive the award of “TRF Senior Research Scholar in English” from the Thailand Research Fund (TRF), and was presented the award in 2016 by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.

Areas of expertise: Written discourse analysis, applied corpus linguistics, English for specific purposes, higher education, elementary education, e-learning, national culture and global English, and language learning.

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