The Study of Chinese Language Textbooks at the Senior High School in Terms of Consistency and Continuity with the Chinese Language Textbooks for General Education at the Higher Education of Kasetsart University's Students to be Ready for the Language Skills of the 21st Century

Abstract

This article aims to study the current conditions of Chinese language textbooks for Chinese language teaching in General Education of Kasetsart University, Bang Khean campus by comparing between the current Chinese language textbooks used in Higher Education and the Chinese language textbooks at the Senior High School with International Curriculum for Chinese Language Education. The research found that the textbooks contain a small number of new vocabularies, narrow range of lexicon, and both vocabularies and lessons content are duplicated with what students have studied in Senior High School. Therefore, the textbooks should link to the background of previous knowledge at the Senior High School in order to extending the students' knowledge as well as to developing their potential in self-learning skill, and able to be practical in real life with an understanding of Multicultural society to become people with language skills in the 21st century. For finding ways to develop textbooks in suitable era.