The objectives of this study aim to analyze both the protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye in terms of conceptual or ideological factors and narrative techniques which influence the construction of the representation... and the relationship between the representation and J.D. Salinger’s views on changes in American society in the 1940s. This area of study might concern two theories: namely, a theory of representation and narratology. In addition, this research is intended

literature in the world, with respect to literary themes and gender representation. The study uses two corpus analysis tools, Wmatrix and AntConc, to generate information such as key semantic fields (thematic categorizations), collocations and concordances

The study investigated the representations of L1 Thai learners on English number agreement, a form which is non-existent in Thai. It is hypothesized that the L2 learners have target-like syntactic representations of English number agreement... 80% on the structures of singular/plural head with modification. However, deviant production was found on irregular nouns. The results indicated the learners’ target-like syntactic representations of English number agreement but incomplete knowledge

in the society tend to have bias attitudes and negative viewpoints against being vocational students. This dissertation aims at examining the representations of vocational students linguistically constructed in mass media discourse and government media discourse... reveals that negative representations of vocational students founded in the two discourses include the representations of vocational students as dangerous people who behave themselves like mafia and gangsters, as the tough social problems

literature in the world, with respect to literary themes and gender representation. The study uses two corpus analysis tools, Wmatrix and AntConc, to generate information such as key semantic fields (thematic categorizations), collocations and concordances

the representations of cultural aspects in the ELT textbooks, which are used in a public primary school where Cambodian, Lao, Myanmar, and Thai learners have created culturally and ethnically diverse landscape. Drawing upon the content analysis, the findings reveal... of cultural representations and learners’ lack of recognition of the sociocultural background depicted. Language teachers and school administrators have become instrumental in narrowing down the cultural gap that exists between the textbooks’ cultural content

This research aims at investigating the representations of political protesters in political protests in Thailand during B.E. 2549 – 2557 in headline news in Thai newspapers from the approach of critical discourse analysis. It also aims to analyze..., and Thai Post. The representations of three different groups of political protesters in three political protests, namely the B.E. 2549-2551 protest, the B.E. 2552-2553 protest, and the B.E. 2556 – 2557 protest, were analyzed. The analytical framework

The representations of the language learned and its culture are closely related to the interest or the desire to learn this language as well as the success in learning for learners. In our current context at the Prince de Songkla University where... French is taught in the Modern Languagesprogram Option FLE, we note the lack of motivation and attention to their learning among our students. This is why we studied the representations of French and its culture among our 21 French students during

The topic on elderly has become a subject of academic studies in many fields since Thailand entered aging society. This study aims at examining representations of Thai elderly people presented through linguistic devices in two media discourses... in Thailand's society, namely newspapers and television programmes. The data are analyzed by using a three-dimensional framework of Fairclough (1995). The findings indicate that discourses from newspaper highlight negative representations of elderly people

This research aimed to examine the social representation of French grammar, and the effect of the representation on Thai students’ learning behaviors. The sample consisted of 30 Thai undergraduate students whose French levels were still... metacognitive strategy to realize their own mistakes in order to correct them. However, other students’ activities might divert their focus of attention away from learning the grammar.; Cette recherche a pour but d’étudier, d’une part la représentation de la