Advanced Study of Khmer Program
Royal University of Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
June 18 - July 27, 2007

Information: http://www.hawaii.edu/khmer/ASK/
Application: http://www.hawaii.edu/khmer/ASK/#application

Administered by the
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Hawai'i

Application deadline: February 1, 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 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.

Generous financial aid is available to qualified applicants.

For questions about program requirement and program content, please contact:
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