An Investigation Of Thematic Chinese Teaching In Thai Kindergartens

Thematic Chinese Teaching of Thai Kindergarten is a kind of enlightenment Chinese teaching mode, with the main cultural goal of learning Chinese children rhymes and enhancing the interest in Chinese language and culture, whose main teaching content contain different kinds of themes, such as expressions in communication, some common things in children’s daily life and so on, and whose main language goal is to acquire Chinese vocabulary. Based on seven private kindergartens, the present thesis analyzes the plan of Thematic Chinese Teaching of Thai Kindergarten from the aspects of theme, vocabulary and sentence, whose finding are as follows: the theme of common things should be maintained its dominate position; the proportion of communicative theme and cultural theme should be increased and the proportion of song theme should be decreased to some extent; regular theme learning content is to plan according to class hour; the analysis of students and teaching aims of target country should be integrated in selecting thematic content. Finally, on the basis of comparing AECEPT and YCT and teaching practice of Thai private kindergarten, the author of the present thesis designed a set of test scheme for Chinese teachers in kindergarten.