The Analysis Of Why Thai Students To Prefer Audual Teaching Method.

Nowadays, Chinese has been becoming more and more popular around the globe because China's rapid growth in economy and its immense connection and cooperation with other countries. Particularly, the education of Chinese has been rather developed in Thailand. The prosperity of Chinese education, to large extent, boosts the interaction between China and Thailand in education, culture, economy, etc. Further more, it even facilitates the employment in Thailand. Therefore, Chinese has been well welcomed and advocated by Thailand government. In spite of many achievements, there are still a lot of problems especially in the acquisition of spoken Chinese. For example, a large number of Thailand students depend a lot on Audiolingual Teaching Method. A couple of reasons lead to the problem, such as teaching, individual difference. In addition, we believe thinking pattern should be also one of the causing variables. Thus, through questionnaire and interview, the present research aimed to find out why Thailand students relied mostly on Audiolingual Teaching Method, and the data had been analyzed in the perspective of culture and region. The present research consists of two research questions. They are 1) what make Thailand students prefer Audiolingual Teaching Method in the spoken classroom; and 2) Whether the Communicative Approach can be a better method facilitating students'acquisition of spoken Chinese? The main findings include: 1) culture decides students'thinking pattern, which in turn influences their preference in language acquisition; 2) Communicative Approach can better facilitate students'language learning in spoken Chinese classroom.The present study, in some way, can be significant both theoretically and practically. In theory, to explore the problems happened to Thailand students in the acquisition of Chinese and analyze the deep reason from the perspective of culture value and context, to some extent can enrich the understanding of teaching of Chinese in Thailand. In practice, to explore causes of Thailand students'preference to Audiolingual Teaching Method can foster a better understanding of Thailand students'thinking pattern and value orientation. At the mean time, to discuss the employment of Communicative Approach in classroom and further explore its shortages can facilitate a more proficient teaching and by all means, promote the development of Chinese in Thailand.