CV

Areas of interest

Broad

• Second language acquisition

• Psycholinguistics

• Sociolinguistics

Narrow

• Linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to non-native language acquisition

• Syntax-semantics interfaces

• Language ideology and language attitudes

Education

2021-Present (expected May 2026)

Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Advisor: Dr. Jacee Cho

2018-2021

M.A. in Linguistics (by research)

Chulalongkorn University

Thesis: Processing of English passive construction in L1 Thai learners

Advisor: Dr. Theeraporn Ratitamkul

2014-2018

B.A. in Spanish (first-class honors)

Chulalongkorn University

Conference presentations

2026

• Chantajinda, V., & Cho, J. (April, 2026). L3 effects in the acquisition of L2-English causative psych verbs by L1-Thai speakers. Poster to be presented at the 18th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 18). Cambridge, UK.

• McLeod, J., Chantajinda, V., Cho, J., Dauletkhan, A., Deng, Y., Kong, Z., Martinez Del Valle, F., Moran, J., Shin, R., & Peterson, Z., de Armas, K., Balogun, M. T., & Shao, S. (March, 2026). L2 acquisition of (un-)bounded adjectival scales: Approximate replication of Starr & Destruel (2024). Paper to be presented at the 2026 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chicago, IL.

• Chantajinda, V. (March, 2026). Multilingual versus bilingual learners: Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of L2-English causative psych verbs. Paper to be presented at the 2026 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chicago, IL.

2025

• Chantajinda, V. (November, 2025). L3 Spanish effects in L2 acquisition of English causative psych verbs. Poster presented at the 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, MA.

• Chantajinda, V. (March, 2025). Learning context and the computation of implicature in English determiners: A replication of Cho (2022). Paper presented at the 2025 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Denver, CO.

2024

• Chantajinda, V. (March, 2024). Revisiting native-speakerism in Thailand: Perceptions of Thai-accented English and the Inner Circle varieties. Poster presented at the 2024 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Houston, TX.

• Chantajinda, V. (January, 2024). Syntactic variation of the existential there construction in English: An acceptability judgment task. Poster presented at Linguistic Society of America 2024 (LSA 2024), New York City, NY.

2023

• Chantajinda, V., Bae, H., Moran, J., Sand, E., & Cho, J. (September, 2023). Definite and demonstrative descriptions in L2 acquisition of English by L1-Korean speakers: A modified replication of Ionin et al. (2012). Paper presented at the 32nd Conference of European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 32), Birmingham, UK.

• Chantajinda, V., Bae, H., Moran, J., Sand, E., & Cho, J. (July, 2023). 'All' interpretation of English definite plurals in L1-Korean L2-English learners: A replication study of Ionin et al. (2012). Paper presented at the Pacific Second Language Research Forum 2023 (PacSLRF 2023), Bangkok, Thailand.

• Chantajinda, V. (March, 2023). "But pronunciation is very important!": Online opinions on a teacher's Thai accented English. Poster presented at the 2023 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Portland, OR.

• Chantajinda, V. (March, 2023). Constructional online processing and L1 adversativity effects in Thai learners and the English passive. Paper presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS15), Champaign, IL.

• Chantajinda, V. (March, 2023). L1-Thai learners' preference for Spanish regional varieties: A direct measure and the production of the Castilian theta. Paper presented at the 5th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (So'Sy23), Champaign,  IL.

2022

• Chantajinda, V. (April, 2022). "Thai kids deserve better": Thai netizens' criticism over a Thai EFL teacher's pronunciation. Paper presented at 2022 SLA Graduate Student Symposium, Madison, WI.

• Chantajinda, V. (March, 2022). Crosslinguistic influence in offline judgments and online processing in Thai learners and the English passive. Paper presented at the 2022 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Pittsburgh, PA.

2021

• Chantajinda, V., & Ratitamkul, T. (December, 2021). Thai EFL learners’ judgments of English passive sentences and the effects of verb types. Paper presented at the 19th AsiaTEFL International Conference. (Virtually).

• Chantajinda, V. (June, 2021). Language attitudes of Thai learners toward varieties of Spanish. Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 23. (Virtually)

2020

• Chantajinda, V. (January, 2020). La identidad y las actitudes lingüísticas de los alumnos tailandeses de ELE. Paper presented at VI Jornadas ELE Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand.

2019

• Chantajinda, V. (August, 2019). English interlanguage of passive construction by L1 Thai learners: Evidence from verb types. Paper presented at the 24th Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics (PAAL) 2019, Seoul, South Korea.

• Amarinthnukrowh, P., & Chantajinda, V. (June, 2019). “#DontTellMeHowToDress”: Toward multimodal metaphor analysis. Paper presented at XIScape2019: the 11th Linguistic Landscape Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand.

2018

• Chantajinda, V., & Ratitamkul, T. (July, 2018). Verb types and English passive construction in L1 Thai learners. Paper presented at Science of Language, Bangkok, Thailand.

Publications

• Chantajinda, V. (2025). Learning contexts and conversational implicatures in English determiner: An approximate replication of Cho (2022). Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. (Online First)

• Chantajinda, V. (2024). Revisiting native-speakerism in Thailand: Perceptions of Thai-accented English and the Inner Circle varieties. Language Teaching, 57(4), 612-615.

• Chantajinda, V. (2021). Asymmetry between Thai and English passives in L1 Thai learners. LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 14(2), 574-597.