Discussion On The Teaching Methods Of Chinese Vocabulary In Thailand Kindergarten

With the world rising of Chinese fever, more and more people joining in the force of learning Chinese, the Chinese education in Thailand is also developing rapidly. The Chinese teaching is becoming more and more popular and Chinese learners tend to become lower in age. However, the study of Chinese teaching in kindergarten level is rather shortage. This paper investigated the Chinese vocabulary teaching in the kindergarten in Thailand, to extended the existing problems of the processing of Chinese teaching in the kindergarten level in Thailand, such as the inefficiency of classroom teaching, the lack of freshness and interesting teaching methods, lack of experienced teachers, materials are not in accordance with students’ level, the scarce of the language learning environment, etc. According to the characteristics of Thailand kindergarten, combined with the characteristics of children’s second language acquisition and the characteristics of foreign language teaching, considering the children’s learning and psychological characteristics, designed the two different teaching methods. One class used the traditional teaching method that is the combination of graphic method and game method, another class used creativity teaching method that is the combination of various teaching method (guessing method, drawing method, singing method, body reaction method, game method, reward method, practice method, activity method), through the observation of classroom teaching and students’ learning effect, discovered the traditional teaching method only emphasized on "understanding" and "speaking" two basis abilities, overlooked "reading" and "writing" two kinds of ability, moreover the classroom cannot attract the students’ attention, students feel boring, the classroom atmosphere is oppressive, students can not improve the efficiency of knowledge. While on the other hand, creativity teaching method emphasized on the four basis abilities; listening, speaking, reading, and writing, is better than the classroom which used the traditional teaching method in terms of the number of master word, the accuracy of pronunciation and the expression of the sentence. At the same time, the design of the classroom is in accordance with the learning and psychological characteristics of kindergarten students, can inspire students’ learning interest, classroom launches naturally and smoothly, effectively improve students’ learning efficiency.