A Comparative Study Of China And Thailand Elementary Chinese Second Language Textbooks

In recent years,with the continuous improvement of China’s comprehensive national strength and the continuous expansion of its cultural,economic and political influence,China has become the second largest economy in the world.Now a wave of "learn Chinese,speak Chinese and use Chinese" has been set off all over the world.As a good neighbor and partner of China,Thailand was an early beneficiary of China’s development and has benefited greatly from China’s rapid development.China and Thailand have increasingly frequent exchanges in various aspects,and the demand for talents with Chinese skills in Thailand has increased significantly.Correspondingly,the demand for elementary Chinese teaching materials in Thailand is increasing day by day.As a learning medium for students,there is no doubt about the importance of textbooks.For Chinese beginners,the importance of Chinese textbooks is more prominent.For a long time,Chinese teaching materials have been adopted by Thai Chinese teachers because of their scientific arrangement,perfect content and logical rationality.However,since Chinese teaching materials are based on the world,most of them have not been improved for Thai Chinese learners.In recent years,local Chinese teaching materials in Thailand have sprung up,providing an alternative for Chinese learners in Thailand.This paper selects two primary Chinese textbooks widely used in Thailand for comparative analysis,one is “HANYU JIAOCHENG(Volume 1)“ published in China,the other is “CHUJI HANYU“ published in Thailand.This paper adopts qualitative and quantitative analysis,comparative analysis,questionnaire and other methods to investigate the gains and losses of the two textbooks in terms of vocabulary,grammar and exercise content arrangement,and draws the following conclusions: “HANYU JIAOCHENG(Volume 1)“ and “CHUJI HANYU“ have their own advantages and disadvantages in the arrangement of vocabulary and grammar.“HANYU JIAOCHENG(Volume 1)“ has more outstanding advantages in the arrangement of arrangement structure,vocabulary quantity arrangement,class arrangement and vocabulary difficulty arrangement.“CHUJI HANYU“ is superior in the arrangement of vocabulary and grammar notes in the country and the number of grammar points.There is little difference in lexical classification and arrangement.Both have their own advantages and disadvantages in syntactic content orchestration comments.Compared with “CHUJI HANYU“,the “HANYU JIAOCHENG(Volume1)“ is more reasonable in the arrangement of exercise question types and quantity.On the basis of the above conclusions,in terms of vocabulary content arrangement,the paper puts forward the following suggestions: using the text first,new words last arrangement;Emphasizing Chinese characters and weakening pinyin in vocabulary arrangement;Add Thai definitions to words;Emphasizing simplified Chinese and weakening traditional Chinese;Strictly control the amount of new words and the number of class hours per semester;And so on.In terms of grammar content arrangement,the paper puts forward the following suggestions: strictly control the number of grammar points in each class;Early introduction of grammar teaching;Add Thai translation to the arrangement of grammatical content notes;And so on.In the aspect of grammar content arrangement,the paper puts forward the following suggestions: practice question arrangement should conform to students’ learning logic;Strictly control the number of exercises.The conclusions of this study can provide practical suggestions for the arrangement of Thai native primary Chinese teaching materials,and is beneficial to the optimization and improvement of the quality of Thai native Chinese teaching materials.