The Development of Student’s Chinese Speaking Skill Using Collaborative Activities in Satriwithaya High School

Abstract

Collaborative learning is a new teaching method, which is student-centered. It is also a new teaching model to apply it in teaching Chinese as a foreign language class. This research will be conducted in the Chinese class of Satriwithaya high school. The purpose of this study is twofold: to study the collaborative activities in Chinese speaking class, and to evaluate students ‘Chinese speaking skill after using collaborative activities in the Chinese speaking class. In teaching experiments, this teaching experiment is based on a review of the literature. This paper selected three collaborative activities for teaching experiments, namely outdoor practice (Chinese interview), business talk (role play) and Chinese tongue twister. Using the results of teaching experiments and classroom observation methods, students' vocabulary learning, grammar learning, and oral expression are used to evaluate whether collaborative activities can help students improve their oral skills in the Chinese as a foreign language. In the discussion section, the paper will also analyze the results of the experiment and the results of classroom observations, and put forward corresponding suggestions for the application of collaborative activities in the classroom of Chinese as a foreign language.