The study on the impact of the promulgation of English language as Thais second language

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The study on the impact of the promulgation of
English language as Thais second language
Virach Sornlertlamvanich Director Information
Research and Development Division
(iTech) National Electronics and Computer
Technology Center (NECTEC) e-mail
virach_at_nectec.or.th http//www.links.nectec.or.th/
virach
1 Dec 2000, Multi-lingual Archival Site, Keio
Univ., Tokyo, Japan.
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1. The definition of second language Use in
government affair. For example, every government
document paper will provide both first and second
language. 2. Why the English language?
Information access major language on the INTERNET
Economy major language use in E-BUSINESS
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• 3. The English language readiness
• English language school
• Bangkok 227 schools (? 30k prs/school)
• Provinces 129 schools (? 500k prs/school)
• The sample of various groups of Thai population
  who use English language in their every day life
  context.
• The importer who registered with Department of
  Export Promotion 10,642
• People in academic field ?

• The Internet user 1.3 million

Source- Office of the Private Education
Commission http//www.depthai.go.th/
http//cyberatlas.internet.com/
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• The language proficiency of the Internet user
  (2,404)

66.18 are fine in using English
Source- Internet user profile of Thailand.
National Electronics and Computer Technology
Center. 1999
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The education level of the Internet user (2,404)
60 hold bachelor degree
Source- Internet user profile of Thailand.
National Electronics and Computer Technology
Center. 1999
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The populations working status report
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Source- National Statistics Office. The
populations working status report Phase1.
February 2000
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Language population on the Internet(Sept. 2000)
Source- http//www.glreach.com/
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Thai language VS English language web pages
Thai language web pages 2,064
0.00096 English language web pages
214,250,996
Source- http//www.siamguru.com/ http//cyberat
las.internet.com/
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The number of e-commerce web sites in Thailand
EC ready 0.05?!?!
Source- The conference documentary Thai land
e-commerce policy frame work. National
Electronics and Computer Technology Center.
1999
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The growth of sales using e-commerce
Source- http//www.forrester.com/
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ParSit Web Access (July 11 - November 10, 2000)
266,224 visits (total) 2,256 visits/day
(average) 221,579 pages (total) 2,877 pages/day
(average) Average transaction time 18.84
sec/page 89.20 success in services
ParSit is an English-Thai cross lingual web
navigation http//www.links.nectec.or.th/services/
parsit http//come.to/parsit
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Statistic of ParSit transactions(July 12, 2000
Nov 13, 2000)
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Visitors of ParSit(June 26, 2000 Nov 13, 2000)
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Top 10 Sites Visited through ParSitJune 24 -
October 10, 2000 (118 days)
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Top 10 Sites of September 2000
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• 4. The possibility
• The opposition of people who realize the impact
  on the aspect of cultural heritage
• The opposition of the patriot
• The readiness of the Thai people
• 5. The promotion
• The populations language capability

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The growth of non-English language on the Internet
3 months later...
Source- http//www.glreach.com/
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4. Discussion
Current status-

• The Internet converges the languages on English
• while the language processing technology
  diversifies
• the languages.
• Supporting Technology
• Machine Translation
• Cross-Language Information Retrieval/Extraction
• Datamining
• Speech Technology
• are the key technologies for information niche.

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4. Discussion
Future knowledge-based society-

• Cross-language RD collaboration (IT
  infrastructure)
• Asian languages core center as a language
  gateway
• Digital contents archiving center as a
  cultural, historical, language, knowledge
  resource provider
• Asian E-Business, lifestyle
• Security