This paper reports a preliminary study analyzing non-conventional language use in English manuscripts written by Thai academics and edited by the first author of the paper. The purposes were to classify the non-conventional language uses identified by the editor and to establish if there were common patterns of errors among the authors. The analysis identified the editor’s reason for suggesting each change to a manuscript and a nomenclature was constructed based on 15 language structure categories plus five non-structure categories. The writers of the manuscripts sampled were also interviewed in English and a sample of their speech was analyzed based on the nomenclature in respect of structural errors. The numbers of each type and category were compared across writers, and within writers between their writing and speech. High and significant correlations between writers and moderately high and significant correlations within writers were found. The findings suggest directions for further study which may offer valuable insights into whether the use of language for academic purposes and its use as a spoken interpersonal medium are related or whether the two skills are acquired differently.

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泰国学术作家写作和演讲中非常规英语的使用：初步研究

本文报告了一项初步研究，该研究分析了泰国学者撰写并由论文的第一作者编辑的英语手稿中的非常规语言使用情况。目的是对编辑者确定的非常规语言使用进行分类，并确定作者之间是否存在常见的错误模式。分析确定了编者建议对手稿进行每次更改的原因，并根据15种语言结构类别和5种非结构类别构建了术语。还对接受抽样的手稿作者进行了英语采访，并根据命名法对结构错误进行了语音样本分析。在作家之间以及作家之间的写作和演讲之间比较了每种类型和类别的数字。发现作者之间的高和显着相关性以及作家内部的中等高和显着相关性。研究结果为进一步学习提供了指导，这些指导可能提供有价值的见解，以说明语言在学术上的用途及其作为口头人际交往媒介的使用是否相关，或者两种技能的获得方式是否不同。