A Study Of Job Burnout Of Chinese Teachers At Confucius Institute In Thailand

As is universally known to all 16 Confucius Institutes in Thailand,also,Thailand has reached enviable progress in the undertaking of teaching of Chinese as a second language among the rest of the world,which renders Chinese more pervasive in this country.All of this is profited from those teachers who come to Thailand with the purpose of imparting Chinese and spreading Chinese cultures.Professional natures of teacher and their tedious lifestyles are always conducive to resulting stresses both physical and psychological.Terribly,they cannot find other ways to alleviate them,which is detrimental to their health.Resulting from teaching aboard,what's more,they are wholly exposed to culture shocks and psychological isolation.All these factors are tending to a sequence of predicaments,for instance,uninteresting in their works;their alarming health conditions;and collapsing of their interpersonal ties.All of these elements are undesirability leading to occupational burnout.As a member of those who teaching Chinese in Thailand,I deeply hold the echo of those who suffering from the burnout.And those teachers are performing less efficiently with it compared with other.Teachers who bearing with the burnout would not only conducting awfully in the class,but also pass negative feelings to their students,which hindering their language acquisition and development.Given the situation,we must do something concretely and swiftly aiming to mitigating or even eradicating the occupational burnout.I argue that the scheme referred would contributing to our cause.Based on the above status quo,I commit to paper such a dissertation.In this thesis,there major aspects are involved to analyze such a distressing phenomenon.First and foremost,I investigate those both of volunteers and teachers who teaching in Thailand,by ways of chatting with them and doing a questionnaire.Then,deriving from what I have investigated and results of the question sheet,I conclude some reasons attributed to the occupational burnout and the features of those who bearing with it.Ultimately,I propose several of recommendations and solutions to how to reducing and forestalling the burnout.The research of the occupational burnout has emerged as a hot topic in recent years.While the study of the burnout based in Thailand has not been found at home and aboard.Therefore I determine to paper the essay to addressing this misery.Generally,this thesis can be divided three major parts: the first,we'd better retrospect the history of the burnout.Secondly,based on the forms of chatting and the questionnaire,we delve into the reasons behind the burnout.And the main theme of this investigation entailing three issues,such as,their personal information;their health conditions and their actions to the burnout.Last but not least,given above analyses,numerous tips as well as strategies are propounded respectively to fighting against the burnout.On my part,with the intention to keeping those who teaching Chinese aboard physically and psychiatrically sound,we must render more supports to them.I will also devote my painstaking efforts to the education of Mandarin in Thailand.And our cause will be flourishing under the endeavor of everyone.