The Instructional Desighn Of Teaching Chinese Noun Classifiers For Thai Under Constructivism

Chinese noun classifiers make an important role in people’s daily communication, which exist in everywhere, including any magazines, newspapers, or even dealing moments. As the difficulty and specialty of Chinese noun classifiers, Thai students always feel troubled by learning them. Besides, the traditional teacher oriented teaching method ignoring the inner learning potential of the students. All of these also make the researchers always focus on what to teach and how much to teach from the teachers, and never try to develop a new teaching mode from the angle of the students. The final aim of learning a language is to use it successfully in communication and the best way to learn a language is also to participate in or inmate the real communicative activities. Even though there are already abundant of research results about the characteristics of Chinese classifiers by now, as the study of teaching Chinese noun classifiers for Thai students still has research potential. Therefore, this paper aims for studying high school Chinese teaching books Ⅰ-Ⅲ of Easy Chinese about the selection and arranging of Chinese classifiers through analyzing the characteristics of Chinese noun classifiers and Thai noun classifiers, the biased errors of Thai students and the teaching views of Constructivism. And then according to the problem of Easy Chinese, there are some suggestions for improving Chinese teaching books and teaching strategies for every teaching period. In the end, try to make instructional designs for the sixteen Chinese noun classifiers in these three books. And finally compare the new teaching design with the traditional one.