cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.733
title: ความเป็นไปได้ทางเทคโนโลยีและทางเศรษฐศาสตร์ในการใช้วัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟสที่ได้จากไขอ้อยเพื่อลดอุณหภูมิแผงโซลาเซลล์

description: พฤติกรรมการใช้พลังงานและการพึ่งพาพลังงานฟอสซิลของเราได้เปลี่ยนไปสู่ความต้องการพลังงานหมุนเวียน พลังงานแสงอาทิตย์และพลังงานสะอาดเชิงนิเวศอื่น ๆ กลายเป็นทางเลือกที่น่าสนใจมากขึ้น เนื่องจากความยั่งยืนและความสะดวกในการผลิต ต้นทุนการผลิตจึงมีบทบาทสําคัญในการพัฒนาพลังงานทดแทน ด้วยเหตุนี้ประสิทธิภาพการผลิตพลังงานจึงเป็นสิ่งจําเป็นสําหรับการเติบโตทางเศรษฐกิจเช่นกัน กําลังผลิตไฟฟ้าที่ผลิตได้จากแผงโซลาเซลล์ (PV) ลดลงเนื่องจากอุณหภูมิในการทํางานที่สูง ดังนั้นวัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟส ที่เคลือบอยู่ด้านหลังของแผงโซลาเซลล์จึงถูกนํามาใช้เพื่อรักษาอุณหภูมิพื้นผิวของแผงให้ใกล้เคียงกับอุณหภูมิแวดล้อม งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อปรับปรุงประสิทธิภาพการผลิตไฟฟ้าจากพลังงานแสงอาทิตย์โดยการเลือกความหนาที่เหมาะสมของวัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟสห่อหุ้ม (encapsulated PCM) โดยพิจารณาจากประสิทธิภาพจากการผลิตไฟฟ้าที่เกิดขึ้นและการวิเคราะห์ทางเศรษฐศาสตร์ เมื่อเพิ่มความหนาของชั้นวัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟสห่อหุ้ม จาก 4 มิลลิเมตร เป็น 7 มิลลิเมตร ประสิทธิภาพการผลิตไฟฟ้าสูงสุดที่ได้รับเพิ่มขึ้น 15.86% เนื่องจากความสามารถในการกักเก็บความร้อนจากแผงโซลาเซลล์ของวัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟสห่อหุ้ม ประสิทธิภาพของแผงโซลาเซลล์ที่เคลือบด้วยวัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟสห่อหุ้มหนา 7 มิลลิเมตร มีค่ามากกว่าแผงโซลาเซลล์ที่เคลือบที่ไม่มีวัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟสห่อหุ้ม ถึง 6% วัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟสห่อหุ้มที่เคลือบอยู่ด้านหลังของแผงโซลาเซลล์มีอายุการใช้งานภายใต้สภาพธรรมชาติ 16 วัน อย่างไรก็ตาม มูลค่าปัจจุบันสุทธิ สำหรับโครงการผลิตไฟฟ้าจากพลังแสงอาทิตย์มีอายุ 25 ปี ที่ใช้ วัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟสห่อหุ้มหนา 7 มิลลิเมตร มีค่าเป็นลบ ในขณะที่แผงโซลาเซลล์ที่ไม่มีวัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟสห่อหุ้ม นั้นทํากําไรได้ 29,117,630,800 บาท มากกว่าแผงโซลาเซลล์ที่ใช้วัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟสห่อหุ้มหนา 4 มิลลิเมตร เมื่อการวิเคราะห์ความอ่อนไหวของมูลค่าปัจจุบันสุทธิต่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงต้นทุนวัสดุของวัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟสห่อหุ้ม และราคาขายไฟฟ้าที่ผลิตได้ ผลการวิเคราะห์การเปลี่ยนแปลงต่อต้นทุนและราคาขายไฟฟ้าที่ผลิตได้ของวัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟสห่อหุ้มหนา 7 มิลลิเมตร แสดงให้เห็นว่าเมื่อต้นทุนวัสดุเปลี่ยนเฟสห่อหุ้มลดลงไป 40% หรือการเพิ่มขึ้นของราคาขายไฟฟ้าไป 50% ส่งผลให้โครงการเกิดผลกําไรเชิงบวก
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.734
title: An analysis of semantic errors and L1 interference among Thai medical technologists

description: This study focused on the analysis of semantic errors, which is a sub-type in the lexical errors taxonomy of James (1998). The aim of this study was to identify the types of semantic errors that Thai medical technologists usually commit and determine the extent of the L1 interference in Thai-to-English translation. Fifty Thai medical technologists answered a questionnaire and took a multiple-choice test. The findings revealed that the participants’ semantic errors were confusion of sense relations more than collocational errors. The errors were influenced by their mother tongue or interlingual interference, in addition to their lack of English proficiency and the difficulty of English itself, which is intralingual interference.It is advisable to give more consideration to semantic errors and L1 interference, as this will benefit EFL learners, teachers and students.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.735
title: A survey of teachers' perceptions of active learning activities at public schools in Bangkok

description: This study investigated Thai English teachers’ perceptions of using active learning activities in the English classroom. The participants were selected based on their shared characteristics and availability. All the participants, 50 Thai English teachers who had been working in highly ranked public schools in the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Bangkok 1, Bangkok, had at least one year of experience and taught the English subject. They taught different grades of students, from grade 7 to 12. They were both male and female teachers of different ages. Twenty-five participants were females and another twenty-five were males. Convenience sampling were used to select the participants. The study was a quantitative research design. To investigate the perceptions and frequency of using active learning activities in the English classroom by Thai English teachers, an instrument for collecting data was a questionnaire. The information obtained from the questionnaire was analyzed using descriptive statistics, which took the form of percentage and mean. Overall, the findings showed that mean scores of Thai English teachers’ perceptions of using active learning activities were high (mean = 4.07, Agee). However, perceptions varied between experienced and inexperienced teachers. It was found that the students would study more effectively and improve their learning skills when teachers used active learning activities in the classroom. Most of activities were used with a moderate degree of frequency between “sometimes” and “frequently”. The activity most frequently used in class was individual homework (mean = 4.28, “frequently”), followed by lectures/explanations (mean = 4.00 “frequently”). Group work and cooperative learning also had high mean scores. Furthermore, the respondents believed that active learning activity is very useful for students. They had opportunities to use language and felt free when they use English in the classroom.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.736
title: A study of move analysis in American NPOs' online fundraising pages: a comparison between domestic and global campaigns in health operations

description: This comparative study attempted to (1) identify the rhetorical moves that occurred in the campaign descriptions of the domestic and global campaigns in health operations, and (2) compare the similarities and differences of rhetorical moves that occurred in campaign descriptions in the domestic and global campaigns in the health operations. The data was collected from www.globalgiving.org, a website by an American nonprofit that helps promote fundraising campaigns from organizations, both local and international. Every campaign description was written following the template of four sections: ‘Summary,’ ‘Challenge,’ ‘Solutions,’ and ‘Long-term impact,’ restricted by the website. Six moves and fifteen steps were found in the text analysis. ‘Providing solutions and/or potential benefits of the campaign’ was found to be the most common move in both domestic and global campaigns, while ‘Highlighting problems’ was the second most frequently used in the two corpora. The huge proportion of the texts these two moves occupied was enough to prove their significance as mandatory elements of the campaign descriptions. The analysis also found that ‘Providing solutions and/or potential benefits of the campaign’ was the most common in three sections of the format of the descriptions, i.e., ‘Summary,’ ‘Solution,’ and ‘Long-term Impact,’ while ‘Highlighting the Problems’ was the move preferred in the ‘Challenge’ section. This trend applied to both domestic and global campaigns. ‘Identifying Locations of the problem’ was much more emphasized in the global campaigns than the domestic campaigns, which was the only major contrast discovered in the study. As can be seen in the results, this move should always be a part of any global campaign, while it doesn’t matter as much in domestic campaigns. The author can decide if they wish to include this move or not. ‘Providing Organization’s/Campaign’s Information’ and ‘Persuading Donors’ were the less common options for the campaign writers, as they were occasionally included in the two corpora along with the major moves. ‘Giving Supporting Details’ was the only move that could be left out completely in both types of campaigns.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.737
title: A meta-analysis of graduate research on teaching strategies used for improving Thai students’ English skills

description: This is study aimed to 1) analyze the characteristics of graduate research on teaching strategies used for improving the English skills of Thai students; 2) evaluate the quality of the aforementioned graduate research, and 3) compare the characteristics of the graduate research to the standard index. A total of 22 experimental graduate research reports written at one public Thai university in English and published in 2004-2020 were synthesized. The research design was quantitative. The research instruments were a recording form and an evaluation form. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, and one-way ANOVA. The results showed that graduate research mostly focused on vocabulary (31.81%). The types of strategy were used the most was teaching materials (72.72%). Secondary school was the highest levels of students’ education in the research (63.63%). Eighteen studies had a total score at a very high level, and four studies had a total score at a high level. The sample size had a significant effect on effect size at the level of .05, whereas the sampling technique affected effect size at the statistically significant level of .01. Thus, the difference in these variables affected the difference in learning achievement. The meta-analysis found that the sample size variable with the highest mean effect size was 30-39 students, with an average effect size of 3.23. Teaching in a classroom of 30-39 students will therefore lead to better academic achievement than other room sizes. For sampling technique, convenience sampling had the highest mean effect size at 3.02, followed by simple random sampling at 1.39 and purposive sampling at 1.33.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.738
title: An analysis of translation techniques used in English subtitles of Manner of Death

description: The purpose of this study was to find out the top five translation techniques used in subtitles translation of Manner of Death, which was an amazingly popular Thai Y series that was broadcast on an online platform. The series was translated by an unidentified professional translator. The analysis of the translation techniques was based on the translation techniques of Molina and Albir (2002). The study concentrated on the top five translation techniques in the first and second-last episodes of Manner of Death. After collecting and breaking down the data, the results show that the first and the second-last episodes of the Manner of Death consisted of 787 pairs of dialog and subtitles. Only 783 pairs were selected to present because there were four misunderstandings in English subtitles, and there were seventeen translation techniques found. The frequency of the use of translation techniques in English subtitles was calculated as a percentage of the total and the top five techniques were identified. Molina and Albir’s translation technique theory was used to describe the examples of the top five techniques found in data collection. The source language text and target language text were compared in tables with explanatory comments. The top five translation techniques identified were as follows: (1) linguistic amplification (20.56 percent), (2) linguistic compression (18.77 percent), (3) amplification (8.43 percent), (4) reduction (7.79 percent), and (5) adaptation (6.77 percent). Finally, recommendations for further study are provided.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.739
title: An analysis of Thai-English code mixing used by guest speakers on We Need To Talk podcast

description: This study aimed to analyse Thai-English code mixing used by Thai guest speakers on We Need To Talk Podcast Seasons 1-3. Forty episodes which have Thai or Half-Thai guest speakers were selected. The content in the ‘Been There Done That’ part of the show which approximately lasts 20-30 minutes was investigated. The framework regarding types of code-mixing proposed by Muysken (2000) and Suwito (1983) were adapted into the criteria to classify types of code-mixing in the show. The researcher took two types of code-mixing process, namely Insertion and Alternation, from Muysken’s theory, and added Literal Translation as one of the classifications. In addition, the forms of the inserting elements, suggested by Suwito, were adapted to give deeper details. The findings revealed that there were 203 code-mixing instances. Insertion was found the most frequently, while only a few literal translation and alternation were found. When looking specifically at Insertion, the insertion of nouns or noun phrases was found the most, followed by the insertion of phrases and the insertion of filler words. It can be concluded from the findings that Thai artists sometimes code-mix when they have to give an interview in English, and they tend to insert Thai nouns into their English-dominant speech. It might draw from the reason that Thai words convey the message quicker and easier when both the speaker and interviewee are Thai.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.740
title: Challenges in online English language learning: a study of an English medium instruction school in Thailand

description: The challenges in online English learning in a Thai secondary school context are the focus of the study where English is used as a medium language for instruction by adapting Hijazi and AlNatour’s (2021) and Sukman and Mhunkongdee’s (2021) frameworks to explore the challenges in online English learning perceived by students and students’ challenges perceived by teachers in a secondary school in Samut Sakhon province. The participants in this study were 77 Thai students and 20 teachers including 10 Thais, eight Filipinos, one Canadian, and one Australian. The adapted questionnaires were completed by the participants. Afterwards, the data gained from the questionnaires were analysed using SPSS statistics. The results showed that the biggest challenge in online English learning for both groups of the participants was social aspects. Motivation and willingness came up as the second biggest challenges among the groups. However, the third challenge for students was teaching methods, whereas the third challenge perceived by teachers was online English learning. The findings of this study may be useful for future planning for schools, teachers, students, and other stakeholders. Recommendations and implications of the findings are also provided.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.741
title: A study of intercultural communication challenges experienced by foreign teachers in Thai schools

description: Intercultural communication plays a crucial role in communication between foreign teachers and EFL learners at Thai schools. When people come from different cultural backgrounds, challenges that lead to communication failures can occur. This study explored the challenges in intercultural communication experienced by foreign teachers in English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom in Thailand. The participants in this study were foreign teachers working at Thai schools. The data was collected using a questionnaire with close-ended and open-ended questions. The findings of the research showed that the most challenging issue in intercultural communication between foreign teachers and EFL learners was language differences due to the limited vocabulary, unfamiliar accents, and limited grammatical knowledge of EFL learners. Nonverbal misinterpretation was found to be the second most challenging issue because EFL learners' nonverbal cues were sometimes misinterpreted by the teachers. Assuming cultural similarities was the third most challenging issue which occurred when the participants assumed that their own culturally familiar criteria were similar to those of EFL learners. The findings of this study may be used as guidelines for foreign teachers working at Thai schools to understand and address potential challenges, as well as avoid misunderstandings when communicating with EFL learners.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.742
title: Discourse analysis of economic news articles from news agencies in the United States and China

description: This research investigated the cultural dimensions in economic news articles from news agencies in the United States and China, with a focus on the two countries’ economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. This study collected data from economic news articles from the CNN and SCMP news websites. The total number of the economic news articles used in the analyses was 60. The economic news articles from CNN and SCMP websites were analyzed through discourse analysis, specifically Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory. The results in each country were compared with Hofstede’s cultural dimension scores to analyze the similarities and differences between the general situation and the COVID-19 pandemic situation. In addition, the result of two countries were compared to find similarities and differences in how they deal with the COVID-19 situation. The results of this study show that the United States has strong uncertainty avoidance and is a collectivistic society, while China has strong uncertainty avoidance. This study also shows that the United States is a small power distance culture and a short-term oriented society, while China is a large power distance culture and a long-term oriented society.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.743
title: Needs in English listening and speaking skills of Thai jewelry designers

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the needs in English listening and speaking skills of Thai jewelry designers. The data were collected from 47 Thai jewelry designer through a close-ended and open-ended questionnaire. The findings revealed that English listening and speaking skills were necessary for the jewelry designers. The study has also shown that listening and speaking skills are essential to developing their career paths in order to have more job opportunities. This study created understanding about their needs in different situations in English listening and speaking skills to communicate with their boss and clients. This study could provide valuable information that can assist the jewelry course designer in university or the trainer team of the company in selecting appropriate materials and organizing effective training courses that meet the needs of the designers and designers would recognize that English proficiency is crucial and can improve their career prospects. Moreover, this study may allow students in the field of jewelry design to recognize the value of using language skills and will be able to acquire language skills in preparation for future employment.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.744
title: A corpus-based analysis of English synonyms: excellent, outstanding, superb

description: This study examines three synonyms, excellent, outstanding, and superb, using two criteria: collocations and degrees of formality. The information for the three synonyms is derived from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, the Macmillan Dictionary, and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The results show that these three synonyms differ based on previously mentioned criteria. In terms of definition, excellent and superb mean extremely good in general, whereas outstanding may have a more specific meaning associated with action and money. Determined by frequency and MI value, the majority of noun collocates of excellent and superb are associated with broader and more general themes, whereas the majority of noun collocates of outstanding are associated with a narrower meaning. Outstanding appears to be the most formal word, as it appears with the highest frequency in academic texts, whereas superb appears to be the least formal word, as its frequency is highest in informal genres, i.e., spoken English and TV/movie subtitles. As a result, all three synonyms are considered loose synonyms because they cannot be substituted for each other in all contexts. This corpus-based study provides pedagogical implications in addition to lexical knowledge about synonyms. Because corpora can provide far more insightful lexical knowledge about synonyms than dictionaries, this may encourage L2 learners to use corpora, in addition to dictionaries, when studying vocabulary.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.745
title: The use of English loan words of Thai people on Twitter application

description: The omnipresent presence of English loan words in Thai language is increasingly reflected on social media, especially Twitter. This research studied the types of English loan words most used in Thailand and popular topics using English loan words on Twitter in Thailand. The qualitative research method was employed to analyze the types of English loan words used on Twitter and thematic analysis were employed to categorize data by topics for which English loan words are used. The results revealed that transliterations were most employed on Twitter in Thailand. Transliterations were used in 94.12 percent of cases, or 96 out of 102 words. Loan blends were occasionally used on Twitter. Loan blends appeared in 5.88 percent, or six out of 102 words. In addition, the top three most popular topics using English loan words in Thai language included opinions on celebrities, movies and television programs, music and art. 23.56 percent of Twitter users in Thailand employed English loan words for opinions on celebrities, or 24 of 102 words, while 15.69 percent used them to discuss movies and dramas, or 16 of 102 words, and 8.82 percent or nine of 102 words, about music and art. These findings may be useful for further related research.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.746
title: The analysis of the translation strategies used in translating Thai food menus of the Michelin Guidebook 2021

description: Thailand is a tourism destination of the world for vacation, business, medical treatment and especially the food experiences. Millions of tourists fly to Bangkok to taste the authentic Thai dishes. To ensure the tourist’s great experiences, the Michelin Guidebook 2021 is a Thai-English book presenting the must have dishes awarded by the Michelin rating system. This study aimed (1) to indicate the strategies of translation adopted in food menus translation from Thai into English in the Michelin Guidebook 2021 and (2) to clarify the frequency and percentage of each translation strategy of Baker found in the Michelin Guidebook 2021. The 88 Thai food menus presenting in both Thai and English versions in the Michelin Guidebook 2021 were studied regarding the translation strategies adopted. The findings showed that the translation strategies of Baker (1992) could cover all the Thai food menus found in the Michelin Guidebook 2021. The findings also revealed that the translation by illustration was the translation strategy most frequently used, and the translation by more neutral/less expressive words was the least frequently used.