Abstract:

Basic Chinese is one of series of local Chinese textbooks in Thailand which enjoys a great impact. After discussing the advantages and disadvantages of Basic Chinese, this paper offers suggestions on compiling localized Chinese textbooks in Thailand on the following aspects. First, cooperation between the local compilers and the Chinese language teaching experts helps successful compiling of refined localized Chinese textbooks. Second, contrastive analysis of Thai and Chinese may help to project the surface features and in-depth features of the localized textbooks in the composing parts of the textbooks. Besides, adaptive use of different pedagogies should be made to help teaching. Furthermore, a corpus can ensure that localized textbooks are designed with proper difficulty. Also related supporting para-teaching materials should be devised and proper update should be made when new editions of the textbooks come out.