Thai Doctoral Students' Layers of Identity Options Through Social Acculturation in Australia

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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.

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• ISSN: 1999-253X
• Extent: Seite(n): 99-116
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 11(1)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Bildung und Erziehung ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie ; Bildungswesen tertiärer Bereich ; soziale Herkunft ; Student ; Hochschulbildung ; soziale Integration ; Thailand ; Identifikation ; Akkulturation ; Australien ; Mehrsprachigkeit

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Nomnian, Singhanat
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Österreich
• (when): 2018

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-2018.1-6
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln