Locating the Farang Teacher Within and Across West-Thai Encounter(s): From the King and I to Contemporary TEFL

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dc.contributor.advisorPelkey, Jamin
dc.contributor.authorDurdle, Leanna Cheryl
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-18T18:13:00Z
dc.date.available2024-03-18T18:13:00Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-16
dc.date.updated2024-03-16T10:47:29Z
dc.degree.disciplineCommunication & Culture, Joint Program with Toronto Metropolitan University
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractTaking the contemporary idealization of NESTs as a starting point, this research draws on critical Thai studies (i.e., Harrison & Jackson, 2010; Jackson, 2008; Kitiarsa, 2010; Winichakul, 1994; 2000) to conceptualize the farang teacher and attempt to "locate" this figure across 150 years of Thailand's relationship with the 'West'. Guided by the assertion that "… contemporary modes of proximity reopen prior histories of encounter.” (Ahmed, 2000, p. 13), I use Systemic-Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA) to analyze both the 1956 film The King and I and the popular travel website gooverseas.com, asking how the farang teacher emerges both historically and today. I then consider my findings through the lens of my own experience, asking how the cultural meanings surrounding the farang teacher manifest within the face-to-face encounters facilitated by contemporary English language teaching. I conclude my work with a reflection on the possibility of a "pedagogy of encounter".
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41933
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectEnglish as a second language
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectAsian studies
dc.subject.keywordsTEFL
dc.subject.keywordsTESOL
dc.subject.keywordsELT
dc.subject.keywordsThailand
dc.subject.keywordsSiam
dc.subject.keywordsThe King and I
dc.subject.keywordsAnna Leonowens
dc.subject.keywordsSocial semiotics
dc.subject.keywordsOrientalism
dc.subject.keywordsOccidentalism
dc.subject.keywordsFarang
dc.subject.keywordsDiscourse analysis
dc.subject.keywordsMultimodal discourse analysis
dc.subject.keywordsEducation
dc.subject.keywordsEnglish
dc.subject.keywordsMobility
dc.subject.keywordsTravel
dc.subject.keywordsTourism
dc.titleLocating the Farang Teacher Within and Across West-Thai Encounter(s): From the King and I to Contemporary TEFL
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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