Lecturer
E-mail: melada@lsed.tu.ac.th
Phone: 02 696 6723

Education

• Ph.D. (Applied Linguistics)
 The University of Edinburgh, UK
• M.A. (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
 The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
• B.A. (Italian)
 Chulalongkorn University

Expertises

• Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis
• Applied linguistics
• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Conceptual Metaphor Theory
• Second Language Acquisition
• Language Teaching Methodologies
• Language and Identity
• Organizational Communication
• Ideological Conversation

Publications

Sudajit-apa, M. (2024). Representations of women through the construction
          of an AI writer in life-changing narrative articles for women's magazines:
          A critical discourse analysis. The International Colloquium:
          Emotions, Narratives and Identities in Politics, Populism and Democracy,
          Centre for Social Studies, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences,
          University of Coimbra, 24-26 January 2024.

Sudajit-apa, M. (2023). Journey Metaphors in Bank Merger Discourse:
          Cultural Identity Construction of TMBTHANACHART Bank Public Company Limited.
          The 15th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences
          from may 18-19, 2023, Hatyai, Thailand.

Peemmetasawad, P. & Sudajit-apa, M. (2019). A task-based approach to materials design
          and evaluation for young Thai learners. The 39th Annual Thailand TESOL
          International Conference from January 18-19, 2019, Bangkok, Thailand.

Pongsirilak, C. & Sudajit-apa, M. (2019). Identity and second language acquisition:
          A case study of students at an alternative Thai school. The 39th Annual
          Thailand TESOL International Conference from January 18-19, 2019,
          Bangkok, Thailand.

Sudajit-apa, M. (2018). A critical discourse analysis of the Thai Military Government’s
          national reform process in the PM’s weekly addresses on the TV program
          From the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy to Sustainable Development Goals.
          The 7th Conference on Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines,
          4-6 July, 2018, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Chaiyasat, C. & Sudajit-apa, M. (2017). A Corpus-Assisted Critical Metaphor Analysis of General
          Prayuth Chan-o-cha's Weekly Addresses. Thammasat University International Conference:
          ELT in the Digital Age. Bangkok, Thailand.

Sudajit-apa, M. (2017). Construction of Organizational Identities: Students’ Self and Identity Construction.
          Thailand TESOL Conference 2017, Bangkok, Thailand.

Sudajit-apa, M. (2016). The Social Theory and Multimodal Social Semiotic Approach to the Analysis
          of Home for Children with Disabilities’ Identity Construction in Thai Undergraduate Students’
          Website Project. The 10th International Language for Specific Purposes Seminar.
          Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Sudajit-apa, M. (2013). Role of simulation in the Thai Graduate Business English Program:
          Can they engage and elicit learners' realistic use of specific language?.
          The Third Asian Conference, IAFOR, Osaka, Japan.

Sudajit-apa, M. (2009). Learners' awareness of their use of cognitive and metacognitive
          reading strategies and their performance: A study among Thai undergraduate students.
          The 5th Thammasat ELT Conference:Expanding Visions in ELT.

Sudajit-apa, M. (2007). A systemic approach to EFL reading materials development:
          Some findings of the second cycle evaluation. IALS Research Seminar. Edinburgh.

Sudajit-apa, M. (2006). Linguistic vs. procedural simplification: An investigation
          of reading materials modification and its effect on Thai university learners'
          materials perception and reading performance. IALS Research Seminar. Edinburgh.