Myanmar Confucius Classroom Teaching Chinese Analysis

In recent years, with the frequent economy and trade exchange between China and Myanmar, the numbers of people in Myanmar who learn Chinese are also increasing. The teaching methods of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language in Myanmar play an important role to attract learners in learning Chinese language. Thus, this paper aims to study the FuQing Confucius School teaching pertaining its Chinese as second language lessons.This study is based on the 40 periods'Chinese language lessons observation as sample during researcher doing the internship with FuQing Confucius School, and conducting analysis with its elementary Chinese lessons'classroom teaching. This paper investigates the processes and steps in elementary classroom teaching of Chinese lessons in FuQing Confucius School Mandalay, Myanmar. This study analyzed the characteristics and problems of its classroom teaching, and based on this classroom Chinese language teaching lessons, provided some suggestions as teaching references.This paper is divided into five sections:The first section is a brief introduction of the Chinese language teaching in Myanmar, FuQing Chinese Confucius School teaching and the background of current study. The second section reviewed the previous teaching theories, pedagogy, classroom teaching, the models of Chinese teaching as second language and other related studies. Based on the types of integrated curriculum, an overview was conducted on the teaching of integrated curriculum, including lexis, grammar and texts. The contemporary studies of teaching Chinese language in Myanmar were also explained at the same time.The third and fourth sections are the focus of this paper. The third section is based on the elementary Chinese lessons' classroom teaching in FuQing Confucius School, Myanmar, as to analyze the teaching processes pertaining to lexis, grammar, texts and exercises after class respectively, as well as its teaching steps and methods. This section further analyzed the common characteristics and problems of the classroom teaching cases study.The fourth section applied the teaching theories of experts and scholars to conduct comparative analysis on teaching processes and steps regarding the findings of cases study in FuQing Confucius School, Myanmar. This comparative analysis helps to identify the existing problems, and further pinpointed that with different teaching processes, steps and handling methods will resulting different teaching impacts. Furthermore, a comparative analysis also being conducted between the lexis, grammar, text and other problems in teaching processes with some of the theories learned during the postgraduate study. Finally, from the learner-centered principles, terminology, language context, classroom teaching and not correspondence with the needs of learners and so forth to analyze its classroom teaching.The fifth section is the conclusion of this research. Firstly, based on the analysis of cases study about Chinese language lessons in FuQing School, such as lexis, grammar, texts, the exercises after class, the wording used in classroom, student-centered, selection of suitable textbooks for second language learners and other noted issues, this paper is to put forward some suggestions as teaching references. Besides, this section also pointed out the shortcomings and limitations of the study.