The findings show several features typical of Thai teachers of English. For example, the stereotyped gender of
English teachers in Thailand is female. It comprises 82.3% of the subjects in this study. The majority (91.2%) of
the secondary school teachers is bachelor’s degree holders and 8.8% have a master’s degree in ELT. A minority
of the subjects are novice teachers while over half of them have been in service for more than fifteen years, and
their teaching workload is about 16 to 20 hours per week, excluding administrative tasks. Over 55% of the
respondents had no more than 3 days of PD experience, while only about 14% of them had more than 10 days of
PD experience during the past two years.