CAM4510

Post-advanced Cambodian (Khmer), part 1

Bopha Lim

6 points
* 5 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton
* Prerequisites: Year 12 or VCE Cambodian or equivalent skills

Objectives In speaking and listening the students engage in debates and giving and commenting on oral reports. In reading, the students should become thoroughly familiar with the use of Cambodian-English dictionaries, and will deal with items from the newspaper, as well as extracts from Cambodian literature, classical and modern. In writing, the students are expected to learn to narrate, to describe, and to present and to criticise a point of view, all in formal written Cambodian. Through exercising all four basic linguistic skills and discussions of Cambodian culture and history, the students should move towards the status of, or full empathy with, a well-educated native Cambodian.

Synopsis Fluency in the Cambodian language is assumed. The subject deals with Cambodian literature classical and modern, both prose and poetry, and Cambodian culture.

Assessment Examination (3 hours): 60%
* Written (1000 words): 20%
* Class participation and presentations: 20%

Prescribed texts

Khing Hoc Dy Chbab phseng phseng Cedoreck, 1980
Pech Sal and others Prachum roeung preng vols 6 and 98, Institut de L'Asie Du Sud-Est, 1986
Preah Botumthera Som Tum Teav Cedoreck, 1980
Newspaper cutting