TFL: Thai as a Foreign Language
(หมายเหตุ:ขณะนี้กำลังอยู่ในระหว่างการอัพเดทข้อมูลที่ถูกต้อง หากท่านมีข้อสงสัยกรุณาติดต่อทางโรงเรียนฯโดยตรง 053-266295-6)

TFL method:

TFL is designed to teach you Thai language the way you learned your first language by directly associating words (written and spoken) with objects, actions and ideas that convey meaning.

1. There is no translation
2. Grammar, Syntax, and Vocabulary are taught through REAL LIFE Examples.
3. Don’t need to depend upon translation, lengthy explanation of grammar or memorization drills.

The primary destination of the TFL courses is two-fold.

1. To help you learn a language quickly, easily, and correctly
2. To equip you with the strategies and confidence that will aid your understanding and communication in the real world.

TFL Courses

Length of Study: 40-50 Hours / Course

Class Schedule:

Description:

1. Cool Thai:
   This course is designed for students who have little or no knowledge of Thai. It consists of an intensive study of spoken Thai with emphasis on communication skills. Regular field trip and cultural activities will supplement the course material.
2. Thai in hand:
   This course is an introduction to Thai writing and reading. It can be taken concurrently with Cool Thai I and Cool Thai II and is prerequisite for students who wish to proceed to Thai on the Rocks module. It can also be taken as a separate course by students who already have spoken proficiency in Thai.
3. Thai on the Rocks I:
   This course consolidates communication skill with an emphasis on reading. Different types of discourse will be studied through a variety of Thai language media. Field trips and attendance at community cultural activities will comprise an additional 1 hour per week as an assessable assignment.
4. Thai on the Rocks II:
   This course consolidates and further develops knowledge and skills in oral and written Thai. The course is intended to equip students with resources to identify speech registers and to analyse discourse types. Field trips and attendance at community cultural activities will comprise the additional hour per week as an assessable assignment.

Outcome:

1. By the end of the “Cool Thai” course:
   Students will be able to communicate through listening and speaking and maintain very simple exchanges in the basic themes of everyday life situations, e.g. greetings, meeting people, buying things, ordering food, asking directions, telling time, etc.
2. By the end of “Thai in hand” course:
   Students will be able to recognize and understand familiar topics in short simple stories. In writing, students will be able to write basic factual information about familiar things in simple sentences.
3. By the end of “Thai on the Rocks I” course:
• Students will be able to communicate through listening and speaking in face to face conversations with people and on the telephone.
• They will also be able to describe familiar things, convey their own opinions fairly precisely.
• Students will be able to get the main ideas from simple TV and radio news on general topics.
• Students will be able to read and write simple texts on familiar topics.
• They will be able to write a letter to express their own opinions on basic services (e.g. hospital) and convey such things fairly precisely.
4. By the end of “Thai on the Rocks II” course:
   • Students will be able to understand and follow a conversation and to communicate in fairly complex and abstract topics such as political events.
   • They will be able to understand the main points from TV and radio news stories, interviews, speak and take part in conversations on fairly complex, abstract things, and use a range of words to convey the same meanings.
   • Students will be able to read general news stories in newspaper and semi-technical texts in familiar fields, and read short novels.
   • They will be able to write and discuss fairly abstract and complex things, although with some mistakes, and they may still need to use a dictionary to convey the message.

Excursion:

• Eating trip: Original/Northern Thai Restaurants
• Police Stations/Hospitals
• Thai massage & Spas trip
• Temple schools
• Cooking trip: Thai kitchens
• Shopping trip
• Art trip
• Meditation trip
• Buddhism trip
• Etc.
  

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