Research On The Effectiveness Of The Teaching Behaviors In The Classroom Of Teaching Chinese As A Second Language In Junior High School In Thailand

As the constant development of the popularization of international Chinese, effective teaching behavior has played the most important role in improving Teaching Chinese as a Second Language. This thesis investigates teachers and students’view on what the effective teaching behavior are in the classroom teaching of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language. In order to help the Chinese teachers teaching as volunteers in Thailand get an understanding of the needs of Thai students during learning Chinese and adjust teaching behaviors, I designed and carried out a questionnaire survey and a following survey to the students and teachers in five Thai colleges.Looking back on the history of studying effective teaching in the realms of education implies the methodology and approach for this thesis.The descriptive and empirical researches on classroom teaching of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language also lend themselves to this thesis in terms of the bilateral perspectives, the criteria of effective teaching and designing categories of teaching behaviors for observation.This thesis composed of six chapters:The foreword expatiates on the research background and analyses current situation and the problems during the popularization of international Chinese. Meanwhile, it give.s a brief introduction on the the current situation of classroom teaching of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language in Thailand and the special characters of Thai students as well as the research method, purpose significance of the thesis.Chapter One makes a brief review on the history of the researches on classroom teaching in education and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language.Chapter Two gives the definition of effective teaching behavior and then elaborates upon the design of this research and displays the ten categories of teaching behaviors for observation.Chapter Three collects and sorts out the data from the questionnaire surveys and the interviews, listing and comparing the views on the ten categories of teaching behaviors.Chapter Four gives some suggestions to training course for volunteers and Chinese teachers teaching as volunteers in Thailand, on the basis of questionnaire surveys and the interviews.Chapter Five summarizes the significance and contribution of this thesis.