Advanced Study of Khmer
Application Deadline: February 1st, 2007
Duration of Program: June 18 - July 27, 2007
The Advanced Study of Khmer (ASK) Program is an intensive six-week advanced Khmer language-training program held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It aims to fill in a void in the academic community by providing 3rd year level students a "one-of-a-kind" opportunity to acquire the linguistic foundation necessary to engage in academic research, professional discourse, and cultural interaction with all segments of Cambodian society. This immersion program focuses on advanced-level language acquisition and consists of a structured academic program of four hours of task-based language instruction every morning and to three hours of pre-arranged field trip site visits and related task-based learning activities in the afternoons and weekends as a group or as individual work. This ASK course is equivalent to two semesters of study. Instruction is given in small-individualized groups taught by in-country Khmer linguists in Phnom Penh. They have extensive experience in teaching Khmer as a foreign language.
The six-week program will be capped by a written and oral presentation of each participant's mini research project. Participants are encouraged to select their own topic at the beginning of the program. This experience not only adds immeasurably to their language competence, it develops greater awareness and sensitivity about another culture. In language study, immersion is fluency's best guarantee. The language immersion provided by this program is only possible in an in-country setting.
This program is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays, and Group Projects. (10 Fellowships offer for qualified applicants - contingent on funding).
Information: http://www.hawaii.edu/khmer/ASK/
Application: http://www.hawaii.edu/khmer/ASK/#application
For questions about program requirement and program content, please contact Prof. Chhany Sak-Humphry, ASK Project Director at the University of Hawaii, HIPLL, Spalding Hall 255, 2540 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822, Phone: (808) 956-8070 Fax: (808) 956-5978. E-mail: sak@hawaii.edu and http://www.hawaii.edu/khmer
ASK is also supported by the Consortium of SEASSI: Arizona State University; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, Los Angeles; Cornell University; the University of Hawaii; the University of Michigan; Northern Illinois University; Ohio University; the University of Washington; the University of Wisconsin, and Yale University
Dr. Chhany Sak-Humphry
Assistant Professor and Coordinator
Khmer Language Program
University of Hawai`i at Manoa, HIPLL
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-5978 (office) or (808) 561-6850 (cell)
Fax: (808) 956-5978
e-mail: sak@hawaii.edu
http://www.hawaii.edu/khmer
http://khmer.hawaii.edu
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