Lecturer
E-mail : melada@lsed.tu.ac.th
Phone : 02-696-5000 Ext 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

Expertise

• 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. Journal of Liberal Arts Prince of Songkla
University, 15(1), Language and Language Education ID: 266442, pp.1–39. Retrieved from https://so03.tci- thaijo.org/index.php/journal-la/article/view/266442

Sudajit-apa, M. (2019). Political Discourses of Trust: Stance-taking Acts in the Thai PM’s Weekly TV
Addresses. Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 10(6), 124-135.

Peemmetasawad, P. & Sudajit-apa, M. (2019). A task-based approach to materials design and evaluation for upper elementary Thai EFL learners. Journal of Language and Culture, 38(2), 119-153.

Sudajit-apa, M. (2018). Thai Learners’ Construction of Disability Identity in their Website Project: Transitivity
Analysis of Process Types. The New English Teacher, 12(1), 1-22.

Sudajit-apa, M. (2017a). Critical Discourse Analysis of Discursive Reproduction of Identities in the Thai Undergraduates’ Home for Children with Disabilities Website Project: Critical Analysis of Lexical Selection. PASAA, 54, 1-28.

Sudajit-apa, M. (2017b). A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Disability Identity and Ideology in the Thai Undergraduates’ Home for Children with Disabilities Website Project. Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 8(5), 79-88.

Chaiyasat, C. & Sudajit-apa, M. (2017a) A Corpus-Assisted Critical Metaphor Analysis of General Prayuth Chan-o-cha's Weekly Addresses. Journal of English Studies, 12(1), 70-109.

Chaiyasat, C. & Sudajit-apa, M. (2017b). Pronouns, Social Actors, and Modality Types of Politics: A Corpus- Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of General Prayuth Chan-o-cha’s Weekly Addresses in Times of Political Crisis. Proceedings of the International Conference: DRAL 3/19th ESEA 2017, 15-34.

Sudajit-apa, M. (2015). Role of Simulation in the Thai Graduate Business English Program: Can they Engage and Elicit Learners' Realistic Use of Specific Language?. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 5(2), 282- 291. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0502.07

Sudajit-apa, M. (2011). Learners' Reported Use of Cognitive and Metacognitive Reading Strategies: A Study of Thai Undergraduate Students. Journal of English Studies, 6, 72- 96.

Sudajit-apa, M. (2005). The Role of Peer Collaborative Interaction in a Small Group Reading Activity on EFL Reading Comprehension. Journal of Liberal Arts, 5, 180 - 200.