IGCSE CURRICULUM AND CHINESE TEACHING IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL – A CASE OF ASCOT INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Abstract

IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) is the abbreviation of International General Certificate of Secondary Education. Currently, IGCSE has been promoted in more than 160 different countries around the world. It was developed in 1988 by Cambridge international examinations, the University of Cambridge which has been the local examination board in the UK since 1858. Its curriculum system and evaluation model are also one of the main curriculum systems for reference in the current reform of basic education curriculum in China. There are over 130 international schools in Thailand. In order to adapt and develop to meet the needs of all kinds of talents, multilingual and international students, the British international schools in Thailand will offer IGCSE international courses.

In recent years, more and more students are taking IGCSE Chinese courses. In order to meet the demand of Chinese learning, Cambridge international testing institution has set up IGCSE Chinese courses. Teaching methods and test-taking skills are also very important for the students to achieve excellent results in Chinese. At present, the teaching methods and test-taking skills of IGCSE Chinese are very limited. Therefore, this paper intends to take IGCSE Chinese teaching as the research object to carry out and discuss. And through the Ascot international school, for example, through the teaching experiment, questionnaire, calendar year examination method so as to obtain the data, and carries on the analysis, finally concluded that the IGCSE courses in Chinese teaching method and the general Chinese schools with the opposite sex, and be able to find the international school Chinese teaching and students, there exists a series of questions in the examination, how to improve, to help teachers in the Chinese teaching of IGCSE can have more and better reference and improvement measures, make IGCSE Chinese teaching more efficient, students in learning Chinese IGCSE course at the same time also to be able to get good grades.