Pichet Prakaianurat

  • Linguistics and English Language
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Biography

Background

I am a PhD student in Linguistics & English Language at the University of Edinburgh, working under the supervision of Prof. Lauren Hall-Lew and Dr. Claire Cowie. My research interests lie in  linguistic variation, social meanings, and identities. In particular, I explore how L2 Asian speakers of English — especially Thai speakers — draw on linguistic resources to index a sense of who they are, take social stances, and (re)negotiate their identities within contemporary sociolinguistic realities shaped by the post-colonial global spread of English, where global norms, local practices, and social meanings are constantly mediated and reconfigured.

I am also affiliated with Kasetsart University, Thailand, where I serve as a lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages, and I am a recipient of the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) 2024-2025 Award, through which I taught Thai language and culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.

Outside academia, I enjoy exploring coffee culture, maintaining an active routine through regular workouts, and walking around cities as a form of everyday ethnography.

Research summary

Publications:

  • Prakaianurat, P. (2025). Avoidance of the English Present Perfect by L1 Thai Learners. rEFLections, 32(3), 1820-1843.  
  • Prakaianurat, P., & Kangkun, P. (2024). Global or Local Identities? How Thai Learners in an English Program Project Themselves through L2 Pronunciation in ELF Encounters. LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 17(1), 333-368.  
  • Prakaianurat, P., & Kangkun, P. (2018). Language attitudes of Thai working adults toward native and non-native English varieties. Manusya: Journal of Humanities, 21(2), 92-111.

Current research interests

Sociophonetics, Language Attitudes and Identities, Global Englishes

Conference details

  • Avoidance of the English Present Perfect by L1 Thai Learners -  AsiaTEFL 2025 International Conference, 10–13 July 2025, Hong Kong SAR
  • Global or Local Identities? How Thai Learners in an English Program Project Themselves Through L2 Pronunciation in ELF Encounters - The 2nd International Conference on Diversity and Inclusivity in English Language Education (DIELE 2024), 11–12 May 2024, Tokyo, Japan.
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