Design Of Chinese Zodiac Language And Culture Teaching In Thai Middle School

In recent years,China and Thailand have been maintaining friendly relations.Due to historical reasons,the number of Chinese learners in Thailand is very large.Chinese zodiac is an important part of Chinese culture.In daily communication,people often talk about topics related to animals of Chinese zodiac.Thailand also has the zodiac,but it is slightly different from Chinese zodiac.I took Samutsakhon Burana School as a sample to illustrate Chinese zodiac.First of all,this paper made a background survey of the learners' cultural background,Chinese level,learning habits,and the understanding of the related knowledge of the zodiac,and then made a comparative analysis of the similarities and differences of the zodiac and the implicit meaning of the zodiac animals in Chinese and Thai.I made the teaching design to explain the name,order,implicit meaning of zodiac animals and taught words,related communication dialogues.I made a detailed discussion on the implementation of the teaching methods.The innovation of this paper is making a comparative analysis of the implicit meaning of the animals in Chinese and Thai zodiac,and to explain the words related to the animals in Chinese and Thai Zodiac.I hope that the research can provide some reference for the teaching of Chinese zodiac in Thailand.