Publication: Thai doctoral students' layers of identity options through social acculturation in Australia
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2018-01-01
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1999253X
19992521
19992521
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Mahidol University
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Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies. Vol.11, No.1 (2018), 99-116
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Singhanat Nomnian Thai doctoral students' layers of identity options through social acculturation in Australia. Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies. Vol.11, No.1 (2018), 99-116. doi:10.14764/10.ASEAS-2018.1-6 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/47427
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Thai doctoral students' layers of identity options through social acculturation in Australia
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© 2018 SEAS - Society for South-East Asian Studies. An increasing number of international students in Australian higher education have inevitably increased linguistic and cultural diversity in the academic and social landscapes. Drawing upon Bronfenbrenner's (1979) bio-ecological systems theory and Pavlenko and Blackledge's (2004) identities in multilingual contexts, this study explores how Thai doctoral students adopt certain identity options during their societal acculturation while studying and living in Australia. Based on a group of nine Thai doctoral students' interview transcripts, the findings reveal three intricate and complex layers of their identity options, namely, assumed identity as Asian people, imposed identity as 'Non-Native-English' speakers (NNES), and negotiable identity as Thai ethnic people. This study potentially sheds some light for future empirical and longitudinal research regarding NNES international students' social acculturation in different multilingual settings in order to support NNES students' academic, linguistic, psychological, and sociocultural adaptations.