, syntactical, semantic, and pragmatic conventions regarding a research article (Kaplan & Baldauf, 2005). As in many other countries, several researchers in Thailand, where English is considered a foreign language, are also facing this problem. Presently, Thai... and properly. All chapters in the book, in my opinion, are very useful and a fundamental knowledge for researchers. Simply put, English is currently developing a status of world academic lingua franca, (Mauranen, 2008), with it being used as a medium language