A Study Of Online Co-teaching Between Chinese And Thai Teachers In Teaching Chinese In Primary Schools In Thailand

At present,with the policy support of both China and Thailand,Chinese language teaching in Thailand is developing rapidly and teaching models are becoming more and more abundant.More and more Thai schools are adopting the co-teaching model,but there is less research related to it and it is still in the exploratory stage.The co-teaching model in Thai schools is online and offline,i.e.the Chinese teacher teaches online while the Thai teacher teaches offline.This paper examines the application of the online and offline co-teaching model in primary schools in Thailand,using the Khunnatham Wittaya School as the research target.Using questionnaires,classroom observations and interviews,this paper explores the advantages and current problems of co-teaching between Thai and Chinese teachers in a comprehensive and in-depth manner,and proposes more targeted countermeasures for effective co-teaching between Thai and Chinese teachers based on the problems identified.The author synthesises the current status of previous research and focuses on the following six sections:The first part is the introduction,which explains the background,significance and methodology of the thesis,compares the relevant literature and points out the research angle and direction of the thesis.The second part introduces the basic situation of the Khunnatham Wittaya School in Thailand from the perspective of curriculum,teachers,teaching materials and students in turn.The third part firstly categorises the co-teaching model of the Khunnatham Wittaya School as the "Thai-medium" teaching model,and secondly presents two classroom examples of the "Thai-medium" teaching model through classroom observation.Finally,a questionnaire and interviews are used to investigate and analyse the views and attitudes of Chinese teachers,Thai teachers and students towards the co-teaching model.In the fourth part,based on the previous survey and analysis,the author finds that the co-teaching model has the advantages of maintaining good classroom order,improving teaching efficiency and developing intercultural communication skills,but also has problems such as lack of continuous and stable communication between the teachers,unreasonable division of labour and inadequate pre-work and post-class reflection.In the fifth part,specific teaching strategies are proposed for optimising the co-teaching model,establishing a stable co-teaching team,and increasing the pre-service training and post-class reflection sessions in order to address the problems in the application of the co-teaching model for Chinese and Thai teachers.The sixth part,Conclusion,summarises the main ideas of the thesis and suggests areas for improvement and subsequent research.