The Functions And Methods Of Cultural Introduction In The Practice Of Chinese Teaching In Primary And Secondary Schools In Thailand

Thailand is one of the first countries to incorporate Chinese language teaching into national basic education.Compared to other countries,the development of Chinese teaching is more matured.However,Chinese teaching in primary and secondary schools in Thailand still exist some problems,especially in the area of teaching Chinese culture.Teaching Chinese culture is indispensable part of teaching Chinese,they are also inseparable.This paper aims to draw a conclusion about the importance of the introduction of Chinese culture in teaching Chinese as a foreign language in primary and secondary schools of Thailand as well as to provide the approaches of introducing Chinese culture via observation of current situation of Chinese teaching in Joseph Vithaya School and the analysis of Chinese teaching practice.Based on previous studies and author's own experience of teaching Chinese in Joseph Vithaya School,this paper discusses the importance of Chinese culture introduction in three aspects,the first one is to make up the deficiency of cultural teaching,second one is to eliminate the communication obstacles and the third one is to help the learners to learn Chinese language.The next part of this paper introduce some approaches of Chinese culture introduction,which includes Chinese culture introduction based on students' characteristic,balance between traditional culture and modern culture introduction and cooperative introduction between in class and after class.According to author's analysis of Chinese culture teaching plan,some Chinese culture introduction methods are demonstrated in this paper.We wish the study of this paper could arouse Chinese teachers' attention to Chinese culture introduction and provide some practical aids to Chinese teachers in primary and secondary schools of Thailand.