[Tlc] summer language programs (Thai, Khmer)

[justinm at ucr.edu]

FYI. Programs at ASU and U.Hawaii.
Thanks,
justin
P.S. there are other programs listed at tlc.ucr.edu

(1)
Advanced Study of Thai
Chiang Mai University

An intensive eight-week course for students with at least
intermediate-level study of Thai language (or the equivalent)
offered by the Consortium for Advanced Study of Thai in
cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai
University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, from June 25 through August
17, 2007. For information about the Advanced Study of Thai
program, the program fee, and the availbility of fellowships,
please go to Advanced Study of Thai website or contact:
Southeast Asia Center, JSIS, Box 353650, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3560.

Application deadline: Friday, February 2, 2007.

The Advanced Study of Thai program is conducted with
assistance from the U.S. Department of Education,
Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program. The program is
offered contingent on sufficient enrollment. AST cooperates
with the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute; applicants
are advised to apply to both AST and SEASSI to ensure that
they are considers by both admission committees.

Sponsored by: Arizona State University, University of
California - Berkeley, University of California - Los Angeles,
Cornell University, University of Hawai'i - Manoa, University
of Michigan, Northern Illinois University, Ohio University,
University of Washington - Seattle, University of Wisconsin -
Madison, Yale University.

AST Website: http://jsis.washington.edu/seac/ast.shtml/
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(2)
ADVANCED STUDY OF KHMER (ASK) PROGRAM

Royal University of Phnom Penh
Administered by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies,
University of Hawai'i
June 18 – July 27, 2007

APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 15, 2007
Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/cseas/academic/ask-2007.html

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 two to three hours of field trip 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, and possibly
of their own. In language study, immersion is fluency's best
guarantee. The language immersion provided by this program is
only possible in an in-country setting.
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And, of course:
(3)
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) 2007

June 18 to August 10
University of Wisconsin, Madison

--- Application deadlines ---
February 2: FLAS and Heritage Language Award
April 2: Tuition Fellowship and General Application

SEASSI is an eight-week intensive language training program
for undergraduates, graduate students and professionals. It
has been held since 1983 and hosted for the last 6 years by
UW-Madison. This coming summer will be the 25th Anniversary of
SEASSI. Instruction is offered for academic credit in nine
languages at the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year levels.

Burmese
Filipino
Hmong
Indonesian
Javanese
Khmer
Lao
Thai
Vietnamese 

Scheduling of classes is contingent on sufficient enrollment,
especially at the upper levels.

Each language course is equivalent to two semesters of study,
with full academic year credit. Instruction is given in small
individualized groups taught by a team consisting of a
coordinator (usually a linguist specializing in Southeast
Asian language pedagogy) and teachers who are native speakers
of that language.

Please visit our website http://seassi.wisc.edu/ for more
details, and feel free to call or email for more information.

Mary Jo Studenberg
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
207 Ingraham Hall
1155 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
phone: (608) 263-1755
fax: (608) 263-3735
email: seassi at intl-institute.wisc.edu

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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu