Thai
This page contains links to cultural resources in Thai.
Ads
- A searchable database of ads from around the world (search by country, industry, media/type of ad--audio/print/video, etc.)
Audio
- A library of audio texts, searchable by discourse competence, language, level, modality, and topic that includes texts in Thai
- A crowd-sourced collection of texts in Thai, shared by language learners who found them helpful or interesting. The site allows you to search by categories (fiction, non-fiction, conversations, songs, and others) and to build a list of texts, a word list, and flashcards based on what you have read (if you are signed in).
Children's Literature
- A YouTube channel filled with videos of fairy tales read in Thai
Cultural Comparisons / Culture
Dollar Street - Use the dropdown menus on this incredible site to choose countries and topics for comparison based on socioeconomic level. Your selections will bring up photos of whatever you chose from the countries you selected. The site contains many common everyday objects, people, and situations (e.g., adding spices to food while cooking, alarm clocks, answering phones, arm watches, armchairs, backyards, bathrooms, bedrooms, beds, bikes, boats, books, bowls, brushing hair, brushing teeth, car keys, carrying water, cars, ceilings, chickens, child rooms, chopping food, cleaning equipment, cleaning floors, closing the front door, computers, cooking, cooking pots, cooking utensils, cups, cutlery, diapers, dinner guests, disability aid, dish brushes, dish racks, dishwashing soaps, dishwashers, doing dishes, drinking water, drying clothes, drying dishes, earings, eating, everyday shoes, families, family snapshots, favorite home decorations, favorite items in kitchen, floors, freezers, get water, glasses, go through mail, goats, grains, guest beds, hairbrushes, hallways, handwashing, hands, and so forth.
Cultural information in English, accompanied by a collection of short video clips filmed with native speakers in the 1990s. Some are interviews with native speakers, others demonstrate various cultural practices in cultural settings from around the Arabic-speaking world. Topics include communication, economy, education, shopping, social life, and transportation. Materials in a variety of other languages are also included on the site (shared by Lori Langer de Ramirez)
Images
- Hundreds of free images related to Thai culture (Search for Thailand)
- High quality, professional, royalty-free images (search for Thailand)
Infographics
- An extensive collection of images, infographics, and other materials in Thai
Interviews
Cultural interviews filmed with native speakers in the 1990s--a variety of languages are represented on the site (shared by Lori Langer de Ramirez)
Magazines & News
- Magazine and newspaper sites, categorized by country and topic, from 200 countries around the world
- Today's front pages from newspapers around the world
Music
- A collection of traditional songs organized by continent, country, holidays, and language (with songs in Thai)
Pedagogical Resources
- Magazine available in English and the language of your choice. Each issue is organized around a conceptual theme. Excellent visuals make great bulletin board material if you buy these in your local bookstore instead of viewing online. CAUTION: Much of the material in these magazines is NOT appropriate for classroom use, so teachers should preview and select carefully.
Phenomenal site filled with creative, practical, proficiency-oriented ideas for world language teaching and learning
Handouts from an ACTFL 2010 presentation that contain a comic analysis worksheet form, a comic creation worksheet that asks students to analyze complementarity, contrast, and redundant relationships among images and text, lesson plans, project rubrics, and more
Excellent resources for building, tracking, and assessing proficiency
Excellent materials for building, assessing, and tracking proficiency from Alyssa Villareal
- A PowerPoint presentation from an ACTFL session that contains loads of great examples for engaging students with culturally authentic texts in pedagogically sound ways
Resources related to the CI approach
- Live, continuously updated statistics about a whole host of issues in Thai