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There are similarities and differences in word meanings and cultural representations between the Chinese and Thai languages. The international Chinese Education academic community has conducted comparative studies on the localization of words, syntax, structure, and other aspects. However, there is a relative lack of systematic research on teaching Thai learners the meaning and culture of the Chinese language for Thai learners. This article focuses on the actual language and culture teaching situation for undergraduate Chinese Education major in Thailand. Firstly, literature analysis is used to sort out relevant materials on language and culture teaching, word meaning and culture, and language and culture teaching models; Seventeen universities in Thailand that currently offer undergraduate Chinese Education major were selected to analyze the current development status and language and cultural teaching situation of undergraduate Chinese Education in Thailand through field visits, teacher interviews, teaching observations, and policy document collection, and to clarify the main issues currently being studied; Then sorting out the Thai students' corpus in the global interlanguage corpus and the foreign students' corpus of Sun Yat-sen University, and collecting and sorting out more than 340,000 words of the students' corpus which from undergraduate Chinese Education major as the analysis samples, we selected the most common and widely used examples, such as "black", "white", "flower" and "soil",etc. And analyze the students' word meaning application via the aforementioned examples, and formulate a plan that conforms to the national conditions of Thailand, and design a language and cultural teaching method which can be used for undergraduate Chinese Language Education major in Thailand. This article has the characteristics of nationalization and professional orientation. The research content involves four elements - research on the current situation and language and culture teaching status of undergraduate Chinese Education major in Thailand, research on the actual situation of language materials of undergraduate Chinese Education students in Thailand, research on the comparison of Chinese and Thai language culture, and research on language and culture teaching strategies for undergraduate Chinese Education major in Thailand. The research has provided a result which presents that there are still many problems in Thailand's current language and culture teaching, such as insufficient teaching hours for cultural courses and unreasonable curriculum arrangements; The lack of a language and cultural teaching model applicable to Thailand which has resulted failed to achieve optimization in the "Teacher-Teaching-Text." Based on the theory of language and culture teaching and the investigation of the current situation of language and culture teaching in undergraduate Chinese Education major in Thailand, teacher interviews, teaching observations, and student corpus analysis, combined with the "The Framework of Reference for Chinese Culture and Society in International Chinese Language Education," this paper proposes a language and culture teaching model for local use in Thailand. By implementing specific teaching procedures and paths, we aim to address the positively-emerging needs of integration in language and cultural teaching for undergraduate Chinese language education major in Thailand. We also propose macro-level suggestions for teaching the Chinese language and culture in Thailand from multiple perspectives, such as teaching methods, teachers, and textbooks. This study broadens the perspective of language and culture teaching in Thailand. It provides a more comprehensive examination, intending to provide a reference for research on Chinese language and culture teaching in Thailand and even internationally. |
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