Chinese language curriculum design and supplementary activities for Upper Secondary schools in Southern Thailand

Abstract

The objectives of this article are to develop the supplementary activities on the Chinese curriculum at the upper secondary education level for curriculum design of the Southern Region schools in order to be a detailed, complete, diverse, and can be widely applied to the management of teaching Chinese courses at the high school level. The research result revealed that ten categories of the supplementary curriculum are developed and subdivided into fifty sub–activities, all contents and substance of activities are effectively used, and developed in accordance with the basic core curriculum, indicators, and Chinese learning content of the national and international standards. The strengths of these supplementary curriculum are 1) Objectives and goals are clear and consistent with the national and international curriculum, 2) Learning contents is diverse, covering all the content and suitable for the learner’s current needs, 3) Levels of vocabulary and conversation situations are based on the HSK (Chinese Language Proficiency Test), and 4) Reflect the identity of the teaching Chinese in the Southern Region that focuses on applying Chinese to tourism industry. The weak points of the supplementary activities are: 1) The supplementary curriculum activities are designed for the secondary school level and do not cover the elementary school level; and 2) Supplementary activities curriculum is designed for teaching management under normal situations and has limitation to teach online