Supawadee Noknoi. Narratives of school directors' lived experiences and attitudes towards global Englishes. Master's Degree(Teaching English as a Global Language). Burapha University. Library. : Burapha University, 2024.
Narratives of school directors' lived experiences and attitudes towards global Englishes
Abstract:
This study explores the school director' lived experiences and attitudes towards Global Englishes qualitataively. Narrative inquirry is employed to examine the differently five school directors' lived experiences and attitudes performing as the purposesively selected participants who are in Chonburi province, eastern part of Thailand. The semi-instructured intervirew and ethnographic field notes are postulated as the reserach instruments. The three research questions are analyzed conceptually in the themantic analysis through coding process: what and how the school directors' lived experiences and attitudes towards Global Englishes influence and impact the ELT field. I employed online (Google Meet) and onsite (at school) collection of data in particular period of times appropriately. The findings are all five school directors have similar negative and positive lived experiences, which cause them to position a native speaker as a standard ideology as their attitudes. At the same time, they are aware of Global Englishes, which produce intelligibility in communication which is an important factor. Variously, Chon 3 has a different attitude in terms of promoting the native speakers as the core of the standard. Budget and sociocultural contexts in particular administrative contexts are dominantly perform as the crucial decision significantly, the result is that three of the five decided to employ native speakers with two conditions mentioned above which located as most participants' decision. This discovery is advantageous for language educational development, preparing the school directors for an awareness of other school directors, which will be the result of positive ELT impact explicitly in a Thai context, where implemented Global Englishes (GE) to English language teaching (ELT) in schools areas. Significantly, the force needs to investigate the significant perceptions that cause the necessary decisions from the school directors. Due to the narrow investigation done with the attitudes, this research will be helpful and challenging for the educational development of the teaching and learning of English in Thailand and other countries with similar sociolinguistic contexts.