[Tlc] TLC/VSG-SEASSI heritage students

[justinm at ucr.edu]

FYI.
Thanks,
justin

The Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) offers intensive 
language 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:

http://www.youtube.com/seassi

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:

http://www.seassi.wisc.edu

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

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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu