Janpanit Surasin

Position title: Thai Instructor

Email: surasin@wisc.edu

Languages:

Thai

Education:

Ph.D., Continuing and Vocational Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 1996

M.Sc., Continuing and Vocational Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 1991

M.A., Applied Linguistics (Teaching English for Science and Technology), Mahidol University, Thailand, 1982

B.A., English, Thammasat University, Thailand, 1976

Office Hours:

M/W 11am-12pm

Janpanit Surasin started her career as a Thai language and cross-cultural trainer for the US Peace Corps/ Thailand in 1979. She then went on to work at Chulalongkorn University Language Institute in Bangkok. In 1989 she came to study at UW-Madison under Fulbright scholarship and became a TA in Thai. She also taught Thai for the College Year in Thailand Program and the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) during her time as a graduate student.

Back to Thailand, Janpanit continued her service as a language teacher, deputy director for academic affairs, deputy director for research at Chulalongkorn University and early retired in 2009. She then joined the UW-Madison Thai Reader Project in researching and creating two on-line volumes of authentic reading lessons for the intermediate and high intermediate learners of Thai language. She became, once again, involved in teaching at SEASSI and returned every summer after she went back when the Thai Reader Project was completed in 2011.

From 2011-2018, Janpanit was a senior lecturer and curriculum developer at an International Graduate Program in Teaching English as a Global Language, Burapha University. Her specialties were language testing and qualitative research in language education.