23 Volume 1 Issue 1 International Journal of TESOL Studies ISSN 2632 6779 Revisiting Thailand’s English language Education Landscape: A Closer Look at Thailand’s Foreign Teaching Personnel Demographics Analiza Liezl Perez-Amurao  Mahidol University, Thailand Abstract Some major issues crucial to a country’s education landscape involve what is taught, how lessons are taught, and who is teaching. Taking the third issue and using Thai government data, this study examines through documentary research method the demographic profile of foreign English-speaking teachers, aggregated by country of origin, sex, type of teaching license held, and rank per country of origin. Providing stakeholders with baseline information about who composes the foreign teaching force in Thailand, this paper discusses as well why English has been dubbed as the “language of the elite,” making it the leading foreign language studied in Thailand. Although this study initially sought to look into the demographics of foreign English-speaking teachers in Thailand, only one major finding reveals how demographic data can point to a hierarchical practice observed in the existing types of English programs offered to Thai parents and their children. Keywords: demographic profile; foreign English-speaking teachers; Thai education Background The advent of globalization has introduced humankind to a whole myriad of changes, affecting people domestically and internationally. People experience changes that are not only germane to a certain domestic context. Instead, because of globalization, these changes are facilitated and take shape both within an identified milieu and across international borders. Manifested in different forms and from various directions, globalization remains as one of the catalysts for migration, greatly impacting education on various strands. These dimensions range from what is taught, how lessons are taught and who are teaching. This study centers on the third issue, believing that much of what goes on in the classroom is heavily dependent not only on the national curricular directions of a country but also on who has been entrusted to carry out curricular content within the four corners of the classroom. As such, it is imperative that information about the teachers who have been entrusted to engineer  Email: analizaliezl.amu@mahidol.ac.th. Address: 999 Bhuddhamonthon Sai 4, Salaya, Nakhon Pathom.