Programme Structure

Programme Structure
Curriculum
Facilities
Graduation Requirements
Students’ Publications
Financial Information
Program Learning Outcomes
Programme Structure

Doctor of Philosophy Programme in Applied Linguistics (International Programme)

                                                                                                                  A typical PhD lesson

Degree 
Doctor of Philosophy (Applied Linguistics) Ph.D (Applied Linguistics)

 

Offered by
Department of Language Studies School of Liberal Arts
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi

Time to offer the programme

Plan A: Every semester
Deadline for application to study in the first semester is June of every year.
Deadline for application to study in the second semester is November of every year.

 Plan B: Offered only in the second semester.
Deadline for application is November of every year.

 

Educational system

  • The programme is full-time, two semesters in one academic year. The courses are conducted in English.
  • The programme offers two plans.

Plan A is research-oriented. It focuses on researching to create new knowledge. The PhD candidates are required to take a 48-credit dissertation. They may take additional courses but they will not be counted as credits for graduation.

Plan B is research and taught courses. It focuses on conducting high quality research which brings about academic and professional progress. The PhD candidates are required to take a 36-credit dissertation and 12 credits of courses.

  • Details of registration are as follows:

Plan A 48 credits of dissertation. The PhD candidates must pass the qualifying examination and submitting their research proposal in the first semester.

Plan B 12 credits of taught courses (2 compulsory courses in the first semester and 2 optional courses which are related to their research in the second semester) and 36 credits of dissertation. The PhD candidates must take all 4 courses within the first 2 semesters and prepare to take the qualifying examination. They must pass the qualifying examination before being allowed to register for dissertation and to submit their research proposal.

 

  • The detailed credit breakdown is as follows.
  Taught courses Reading Proposal Design Analysis Write-up Viva Total
Plan A – 4 2 14 14 13 1 48
Plan B 12 4 2 10 10 9 1 48
  • The PhD candidates are required to report their progress to the Postgraduate Committee of the Department of Language Studies every semester for evaluation to get credits.
  • The dissertation accounts for 36 credits and it is supervised by 2 supervisors.
  • PhD candidates are required to report their progress in a seminar which is held every semester
  • From the second year of study, the PhD candidates are encouraged to present their research work in an international conference and to spend some time in an English speaking country in order to have exposure to English and use it in an English-language context. The PhD candidates can also work with professors in the universities that have contacts with KMUTT. The Department of Languages will partially sponsor this activity.

Duration of the study
3 years full time with an extension of up to 6 years, counted from the first semester of registration.

to 3 years full time with an extension of up to 6 years, counted from the first semester of registration.

Registration
Following the rules of Graduate Studies.

 

Study Plans

Year 1   Plan A

Term 1   Term 2  
Courses Credits Courses Credits
LNG 731 วิทยานิพนธ์ Dissertation 9 LNG 731 วิทยานิพนธ์ Dissertation 9
Total Credits 9 Total Credits 9

 

Year 2   Plan A

Term 1   Term 2  
Courses Credits Courses Credits
LNG 731 วิทยานิพนธ์ Dissertation 9 LNG 731 วิทยานิพนธ์ Dissertation 9
Total Credits 9 Total Credits 9

 

Year 3   Plan A

Term 1   Term 2  
Courses Credits Courses Credits
LNG 731 วิทยานิพนธ์ Dissertation 9 LNG 731 วิทยานิพนธ์ Dissertation 3
Total Credits 9 Total Credits 3

 

Year 1 Plan B

Term 1   Term 2  
Courses Credits Courses Credits
LNG 701 วิธีวิจัยระดับสูง
Advanced Research Methodology		 3 LNG XXX วิชาเลือก 1 Optional I 3
LNG 702 ทฤษฎีทางภาษาศาสตร์
Linguistic Theories
หรือ LNG 703 ทฤษฎีการเรียนรู้ภาษา
Theories in Language Learning		 3 LNG XXX วิชาเลือก 1 Optional I 3
    LNG 732 วิทยานิพนธ์ Dissertation 6
Total Credits 6 Total Credits 12

 

Year 2 Plan B

Term 1   Term 2  
Courses Credits Courses Credits
LNG 732 วิทยานิพนธ์ Dissertation 9 LNG 732 วิทยานิพนธ์ Dissertation 9
Total Credits 9 Total Credits 9

 

Year 3 Plan B

Term 1   Term 2  
Courses Credits Courses Credits
LNG 732 วิทยานิพนธ์ Dissertation 9 LNG 732 วิทยานิพนธ์ Dissertation 3
Total Credits 9 Total Credits 3

 

Curriculum

Course Description

      1. Compulsory courses 
      • LNG 701    วิธีวิจัยระดับสูง  (Advanced Research Methodology)                                                                                             3(3-0-9)
      • LNG 702    ทฤษฎีทางภาษาศาสตร์ (Linguistic Theories)                                                                                                           3(3-0-9)
      •  LNG 703   ทฤษฎีการเรียนรู้ภาษา  (Theories in Language Learning)                                                                                      3(3-0-9)  

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      2. Elective courses
      • LNG 711   การวิจัยเกี่ยวกับสัมพันธสารวิเคราะห์ (Research in Discourse Analysis)                                                                  3(3-0-9)
      • LNG 712   ภาษาศาสตร์เชิงสังคม  (Sociolinguistics)                                                                                                                   3(3-0-9)
      • LNG 713   กระบวนการเรียนภาษา  (Processes of Language Learning)                                                                                   3(3-0-9)
      • LNG 714   ทฤษฎีและการวิจัยการอ่าน (Reading Theories and Research)                                                                                3(3-0-9)
      • LNG 715   หัวข้อที่เกี่ยวกับภาษาศาสตร์และการศึกษาในประเทศไทย   (Linguistic and Educational Issues in Thailand)       3(3-0-9)
      • LNG 716   การวิจัยเกี่ยวกับการให้อิสระในการเรียนภาษา (Research in Autonomy in Language Learning)                          3(3-0-9)
      • LNG 717   การประยุกต์ใช้เทคโนโลยีทางด้านภาษาศาสตร์ประยุกต์  (Technology Applications in Applied Linguistics)        3(3-0-9)
      • LNG 718   การประเมินผลทางการศึกษา   (Educational Assessment)                                                                                        3(3-0-9)
      • LNG 719    สถิติสำหรับการวิจัยเชิงภาษาศาสตร์ประยุกต์   (Statistics for Applied Linguistics Research)                                3(3-0-9)
      • LNG 720   หัวข้อพิเศษ 1  (Special Topics I)                                                                                                                                3(3-0-9)
      • LNG 721   หัวข้อพิเศษ 2  (Special Topics II)                                                                                                                               3(3-0-9)
      • LNG 722    หัวข้อพิเศษ 3 (Special Topics III)                                                                                                                              3(3-0-9)

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      3. Thesis

      • LNG 731  วิทยานิพนธ์    (Dissertation)                                                                                                                                       48  credits
      • LNG 732  วิทยานิพนธ์    (Dissertation)                                                                                                                                       36  credits

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Facilities

Venue and equipment 

School of Liberal Arts, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi. In addition, we provide a study room with shared computers, printers and wireless connection to be used with the notebooks, a micro-teaching room, and a multimedia room for materials production to support teaching, learning and research.

A lecture by a visiting professor

Resources
Texts, periodicals and other resources to do research can be obtained from 2 places.

  • The university main library which houses more than 30,000 texts and 4 periodicals in Applied Linguistics. The main library also provides IT technology to access the following databases: ERIC, ACM, ACS, DAO and full-text article databases such as Science Direct. In addition, the main library provides an inter-library loan service both domestically and internationally.
  • The Resource Centre of the School of Liberal Arts which is a specialized library that houses texts, coursebooks and periodicals in Applied Linguistics. In addition, the Resource Centre provides an Internet system for students to search for more knowledge related to their learning and/or researching. For more information, access our Resource Centre.

Graduation Requirements

1. Taught Courses and Research

Curriculum structure

  • Plan A (PhD by research)                                          48  credits
  • Plan B (PhD taught courses and research)             48  credits
    Compulsory courses                                                     6  credits
    Elective courses                                                             6  credits
    Dissertation                                                                  36  credits
    Total                                                                               48  credits
  1. Publications
  • 2 presentations in international conferences with publications in the proceedings
    OR two publications in national peer reviewed journals.
    OR one presentation in the international conference with publication in the proceedings and one publication in a national peer reviewed  journal.
  • AND One publication in an international peer reviewed journal.

Students’ Publications

A PhD student presenting at an international conference

Students’ Publications in 2021

Students’ Publications in 2020

Students’ Publications in 2019

Students’ Publications in 2018

Students’ Publications in 2017

Students’ Publications in 2016

Students’ Publications in 2015

Students’ Publications in 2014

Students’ Publications in 2013

Students’ Publications in 2012

Students’ Publications in 2011

Students’ Publications in 2010

Financial Information

Tuition Fee
The fee is 25,000 baht for a semester. Each credit costs 3,000 baht (for both Thai and foreign students).


Tuition fees

 Semester Year

Education fee

 25,000 50,000

Registration fee

(3,000 Baht/Credit)

 24,000 48,000
Expenditures throughout the course 294,000 Baht/ Person

** This amount Excludes other expenses such as accident insurance card. Health insurance card. **

Financial Aid
The Department offers several sources of financial support for the candidates: teaching, assisting, or receiving a grant/scholarship. Candidates can apply to teach courses at the undergraduate level. You can also work as an assistant in teaching (Teaching Assistant), or research (Research Assistant), or to the Self-Access Learning Center and Resource Center (SALC and RC Assistant). Scholarships and grants are also available if you maintain good academic performance.

The faculty provides funding for you to present the paper in an international conference in Thailand and you also have 25,000 Baht subsidy which can be used to either present the paper in the international conference overseas or to go abroad and to do research take  courses with university overseas.

You can also get funding to present a paper in an international conference in Thailand but that conference has to have proceedings.

Program Learning Outcomes

PLO 1 Students will be able to demonstrate systemic understanding of applied linguistics research

1) Students will be able to explain issues in applied linguistics, theoretical principles of research, and objectives and procedures of different research paradigms in applied linguistics.

2) Students will be able to analyse issues in applied linguistics validly and appropriately select relevant issues to solve problems in real life situations.

3) Students will be able to identify appropriate research topics or identify scopes of research that are useful to the field of applied linguistics.

 

PLO 2 Students will be able to accurately analyse, evaluate, and design research in applied linguistics

1) Students will be able to validly and justifiably analyse, evaluate and critique research in applied linguistics.

2) Students will be able to synthesize arguments about applied linguistics research.

3) Students will be able to design and plan research that leads to the construction of new, valid and well accepted knowledge in the field of applied linguistics.

4) Students will be able to produce original and ethical research of high quality and value which contributes to the field of applied linguistics.

 

PLO 3 Students will be able to communicate effectively.

1) Students will be able to effectively and appropriately disseminate research in high quality academic conferences which are well accepted in the field.

2) Students will be able to write high quality research papers and academic papers.

 

PLO 4 Students will show the characteristics associated with a professional researcher.

1) Students will show themselves to be independent, self-motivated, responsible, and determined.

2) Students will be able to show awareness of research ethics and the effects of research on the communities and people involved.

3) Students will be able to work well with others, contribute and share ideas, accept the ideas and opinions of others, be enthusiastic in contributing, and manifest interpersonal leadership.

4) Students will be able to create networks for future cooperation and create a community of practice.

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