SEASSI 2009 Heritage Language Classes: Filipino, Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Vietnamese
The Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) offers intensivelanguage and culture instruction from Beginning to Advanced level
(enrollment numbers permitting) for Burmese, Filipino, Indonesian,
Hmong, Khmer, Javanese, Lao, Thai and Vietnamese. The program is open
to both non-native and native speakers of these languages. The
following announcement concerns a special focus on Heritage learners,
available for five of the above languages.
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SEASSI offers university-level instruction in Filipino, Hmong, Khmer,
Lao and Vietnamese language and culture at multiple levels. Instruction
is specifically geared toward native-speakers of those languages who
wish to learn to read or write and/or improve their formal speaking
skills. If you already possess basic or intermediate-level reading and
writing skills in your language, there are several higher level classes
available at SEASSI in all of these five languages. If you cannot speak
or understand the language of your parents/grandparents at all, SEASSI
also offers beginning level classes, for which no previous knowledge of
the language is required.
To see examples of Filipino, Hmong, Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese teaching
materials used at SEASSI, student work, photos, and videos of classroom
activities and student projects, visit our website:
http://www.seassi.wisc.edu/heritage/index.html
Check back at the above website frequently; within the next few weeks,
new videos and photos from SEASSI 2008 will be added.
You can also view the end-of-summer "Culture Night" performances by all
2008 SEASSI language groups, in addition to videos of some performances
from SEASSI Poetry Night 2008, here:
SEASSI will take place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from June
15 to August 7, 2009. SEASSI is an intensive language program where
students have an opportunity to study only Southeast Asian languages,
five days a week, for two months. Students receive one year (2 full
semesters) of foreign language credit for the program.
Several types of financial aid are available for SEASSI students,
including the Heritage Fellowship, which is of particular interest to
students of Filipino, Hmong, Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese family
background. It's not too early to think about applying for next
summer! To read more about applying for the program and receiving
financial aid (including important application deadlines), see:
Please forward this announcement to anyone whom you think might be
interested in studying at SEASSI next year. If you do forward this
e-mail, however, please be sure to include the entire message, including
the short header (above the line of asterisks) which begins the e-mail.
yours,
Frank Smith
SEASSI Heritage Language Facilitator
posted by Jinja @ 10:38 AM
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