A Case Study of Online One-on-One Business Chinese Teaching for Thai Learners: A Zoom-Based Lesson on Table Etiquette

Abstract

With frequent economic and cultural exchanges between China and Thailand, business
Chinese is becoming increasingly important. Table etiquette, as a high-frequency scene in business
communication, contains rich linguistic and cultural connotations, but the current teaching
generally has problems such as low vocabulary memory efficiency, insufficient cultural input, and
weak content targeting. This study uses the Zoom platform as the teaching environment, focuses
on the theme of table etiquette, and conducts one-to-one online teaching for two Thai learners
through self-edited teaching content and situational teaching activities. Combining teacher-student
interaction, multimodal teaching and cross-cultural communication theory, this paper analyzes the
role of multimodal resources and interaction in Chinese learning through classroom records and
learning feedback, and provides inspiration for the application of online teaching of Thai business
Chinese topics.