Thai Language and Culture for Beginners, vol. 1 (auxiliary materials)

Hoonchamlong, Yuphaphann

Thai Language and Culture for Beginners, vol. 1 (auxiliary materials)

dc.contributor.author	Hoonchamlong, Yuphaphann
dc.date.accessioned	2012-01-17T22:47:15Z
dc.date.available	2012-01-17T22:47:15Z
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.description	Thai Language and Culture for Beginners provides a basic foundation for conversational Standard Thai for beginning learners. It focuses on developing the learners' listening and speaking skills. Designed primarily for use in a Thai as a Foreign Language class in U.S. universities, this course book uses a proficiency-based approach to learning Thai and covers the daily real life topics and situations that a student might encounter. Each volume set consists of: • Coursebook • Companion Audio/Video CD (in mp3 and mpeg formats) • Companion Dialog Video clips DVD (NTSC format) The Thai Language and Culture for Beginners coursebook set (Book 1 and Book 2) consists of 31 lessons (20 lessons in Book 1 and 11 lessons in Book 2) and appendix sections providing samples of songs and poems of Thailand, as well as an index to structural patterns introduced in the text and a vocabulary index in both Thai to English and English to Thai order, providing both IPA transcription and Thai script. The accompanying audio-CD provides the reading of the terms and expressions introduced in each lesson. The video-DVD provides video-clips of the enactment of the contextualized dialogs as audio-visual samples of language usage.
dc.description.abstract	Thai Language and Culture for Beginners provides a basic foundation for conversational Standard Thai for beginning learners. It focuses on developing the learners' listening and speaking skills. Designed primarily for use in a Thai as a Foreign Language class in U.S. universities, this course book uses a proficiency-based approach to learning Thai and covers the daily real life topics and situations that a student might encounter. Each volume set consists of: • Coursebook • Companion Audio/Video CD (in mp3 and mpeg formats) • Companion Dialog Video clips DVD (NTSC format) The Thai Language and Culture for Beginners coursebook set (Book 1 and Book 2) consists of 31 lessons (20 lessons in Book 1 and 11 lessons in Book 2) and appendix sections providing samples of songs and poems of Thailand, as well as an index to structural patterns introduced in the text and a vocabulary index in both Thai to English and English to Thai order, providing both IPA transcription and Thai script. The accompanying audio-CD provides the reading of the terms and expressions introduced in each lesson. The video-DVD provides video-clips of the enactment of the contextualized dialogs as audio-visual samples of language usage. .
dc.description.sponsorship	Thai Language and Culture for Beginners course book set and the accompanying audio-CD and video-DVD were developed during 2003-2006 with funding from the U.S. Department of Education (International Research and Studies Program Grant Award No. P017A030070).
dc.format.extent	275 pages
dc.identifier.citation	Hoonchamlong, Y. (2007). Thai language and culture for beginners, volume 1. [text + DVD] Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
dc.identifier.isbn	9789747512250
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/14555
dc.language.iso	other
dc.publisher	Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong; distributed by University of Hawaii Press
dc.relation.ispartofseries	XLT06
dc.relation.uri	http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-5288-9789747512267.aspx
dc.relation.uri	THIS BOOK IS OUT-OF-PRINT, BUT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE HERE: http://www.addall.com/New/submitNew.cgi?query=9789747512250&type=ISBN&location=10000&state=HI&dispCurr=USD
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
dc.subject	language learning
dc.subject	Thai language
dc.subject	Thai culture
dc.title	Thai Language and Culture for Beginners, vol. 1 (auxiliary materials)
dc.type	Software
dc.type.dcmi	Collection