The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2023: Official Conference Proceedings

Abstract

This research aimed to (1) survey the problem of Chinese Language Teachers development in EEC area, (2) create the Chinese Language Teacher's Competencies for the EEC area, and (3) provide the guidelines for developing Chinese Teacher's Competencies for the EEC area. In order to achieve the research purpose, the research methodology was divided into parts. In the first part, content analysing of literature review for formulating questionnaire and surveying were applied to examine the problems and current competencies of Chinese Language Teachers in EEC area. In the second part, analyzing the content related to workforce skill sets and teacher's competencies of Chinese Teacher was applied to design the components of Chinese Language Teacher's competencies for EEC area of Thailand. Then, the questionnaire was formulated to survey Chinese Language Teacher's Competencies in EEC area. The third part was doing the focus group discussion which is the collecting data technique to provide recommendations for Chinese teacher competencies development. Finding was divided into three sections; the survey of Chinese Language Teacher development situation, it was evidenced that teacher has a high score in creating teaching innovation and classroom activity; there are eight components of Chinese Language Teacher's competencies for EEC area; the result of group discussion was suggested that schools should co-operate with other sectors for planning the training programme for teachers that should be in the form of on-the-job training and mentoring.