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Thai Doctoral Students' Layers of Identity Options Through Social Acculturation in Australia
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Abstract 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 multi... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
social background; acculturation; multilingualism; student; social integration; identification; Australia; Thailand; university level of education
Classification
University Education
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Free Keywords
Identity Options; Higher Education; Thai Doctoral Students
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 99-116
Journal
ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 11 (2018) 1
Issue topic
The Political Economy of New Authoritarianism
ISSN
1999-253X
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0