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Khmer Spoken Here, But Only a Little

An undergraduate qualitative research study which investigated the use of the Khmer language in a sheltered English kindergarten classroom for Cambodian students, taught by a monolingual English-speaking teacher and a bilingual Khmer-speaking aide.

Asian Educational Media Service

AEMS is here to help you locate media materials you can use in learning and teaching about the cultures and peoples of Asia. Media materials are plentiful, and new ones appear almost daily. Finding them and choosing among them can be a challenge. That's where we come in.

Asian American Curriculum Projects, Inc.

AACP, pledges to offer you the best in Asian American books and other educational materials. Twenty-eight years of experience speaks for our success. Visit us often as our website grows. We guarantee that you will be pleased with our collection.

The Asia Society

The Asia Society is dedicated to fostering an understanding of Asia and communication between Americans and the peoples of Asia and the Pacific. Check out their site's Education Center for descriptions of the educational projects, networking opportunities, web board discussions, and links to related web sites.

Ask Asia Homepage

Asia Society's  exciting, informative on-line source for K-12 Asian and Asian American studies.  AskAsia offers high-quality, classroom-tested resources and cultural information, engaging games and activities, and links to relevant people, places, and institutions.  This huge website is full with lesson plans, photos, art, children literature resources, professional reading articles, and internet links

At AskAsia, teachers can also join a virtual community of educators, share experiences, discover new sources of material, and learn effective methods for teaching about Asia and Asian American experiences.

Breaking the Time Warp:  Discovering the Treasures of Vietnam Today

This is an excellent example of Internet unit created by a teacher in Hawaii to guide students through an Internet search and activities related to the history and culture of Vietnam.

Cambodian Related Links for Educators and Students

An annotated listing of selected Cambodian related web pages with content appropriate for use with students.

Chinese Holidays

A nice multimedia website complete with photos, descriptions and even music. Descriptions of Lunar New Year, Lantern Festival, Ching Ming, Dragon Boat Festival, Moon Festival, and October Holidays.

China Unique

An Educational award winning web site which offers facts, photos, and activities related the history and culture of China.

Contact China

This site is commercial in nature, but does supply a wealth of information about China including culture, festivals, food, geography, government, and art.

Electric Samuari -- The Asian Network

(Review from February 1999 Edition of Education Site Reviews From Education World)

"This is an outstanding database of images on Japan, China, and Mongolia.  Samurai lovers will want to go to Cobweb Castle.  Here you will find the Samurai Tour --- photographs of places renowned to the Samurai around Japan; the Samurai Gallery - portraits of famous Samurai; and Samurai Links.  This site is not just limited to the Samurai though!  Back on the main page users can choose from several other sections of the site. Cyber Shrine is an image collection of temples and shrines. Virtual Mongolia includes images, sound bytes, QuickTime VR clips, and links about Mongolia. Virtual China offers tours of all the major areas in China. The Oriental Museum has art images from Mongolia, Japan, and Korea.  Finally, the QuickTime VR section has a collection of movies.  Electronic Samurai is a great resource on Asian culture for all grade levels from elementary through high school."

Hong Kong - City of Life - Traditional Festivals

Brief Descriptions of the many Chinese Festivals celebrated in Hong Kong

Interative Chinese American History

This excellent resource was created as a project by Asian American Studies students at UC Berkeley.   Includes an electronic Timeline of Events in Chinese American History.

Interactive Stories - Legend of the Dragon & The Dragon Boat Legend

Read and interact with these wonderful stories on-line or download them in either Windows or Macintosh format. Very appropriate for Elementary students and above.

Khmer Language and Literacy Development

Information on successful bilingual Khmer education programs. Extensive lists of educational books and materials in Khmer that have been developed for use in bilingual programs.  Extensive lists of resources in both Khmer and English on the history, language and culture of Cambodia for teachers and students.

Korean National Museum of Contemporary Art

Information about the museum plus on-online Virtual Galleries.

Stories to Read and Tell - China

An index of selected Children's Books related to the history and culture of China.  Includes extensive synopsis of each text.

Tagalog - Interactive Language and Philippine Culture Resources

Here's a great page for speakers of Tagalog and students who want to learn. Includes on-line language lessons, discussion forums, cultural information, and even a section called Tagalog for Kids.

Tanikalang Ginto - The Philippines' Most Comprehensive Web Directory

As the title suggests, this is an impressive collection of internet links related to Phillipines.

TeachAsia Resources

Asia Society's TeachAsia is dedicated to providing professional development opportunities that facilitate teacher leadership and strengthen the capacity of educators to develop practical models for the inclusion of Asian studies in the classroom.

The Vietnam Challenge

On January 1, 1998, 75 Extraordinary people came together for the Vietnam Challenge, a very special athletic and goodwill event covering 1,200 miles through the heart of                    Vietnam. The Vietnam Challenge bicycling team, composed of persons with and without disabilities, included many veterans of the war in Vietnam - from both sides of the conflict. With world-renown athletes Greg LeMond and Diana Nyad leading the way, the Challenge became a three-week journey of discovery, an opening to the past and present of Vietnam. Through the Asia Society's AskAsia, a Web site dedicated to providing quality K-12  resources on Asia, students in classrooms around the world followed their progress and communicated with team members along the way.

Traditional Chinese Festivals

A simple and concise description of some major Chinese Festivals. Ideal for printing out and giving to students.

Vietnamese Literature

An impressive collection of Vietnamese Literature available to read on-line.

Vietspace Kids' Corner

Vietspace (http://kicon.com) is an on-line Vietnamese community. Vietspace's Kids Corner offers several on-line stories that can be read in either English or Vietnamese. Also includes information about Vietnamese culture and history for kids.

 

 Publishers and Distributors of APA Educational Books, Materials and Resources

Asia For Kids

Greenshower
Filipino and Filipino-American Cyber-Library

Pan-Asian Publications
Philippine Bookstore Online

Shen's Books and Supplies
Tu Luc Bookstore (Vietnamese)

Assessing Asian Language Performance:  Guidelines for Evaluating Limited-English- Proficient Students.  By Li-Rong Lilly Cheng (1991).  Academic Communication Associates.

(from Book's Preface).  The primary purpose of this book is to provide information about the cultural and linguistic characteristics of the API language minorities and to suggest innovative assessment and intervention strategies for speech-language clinicians and other language specialists who work with these groups.  The book includes critical background information about API language minority populations in the United States and the various cultures of Asia.  The book also includes descriptions of the linguistic systems of the API languages and a contrastive analysis showing how these languages vary from English.

 

Asian American Education:  Prospects and Challenges.  By Marilyn Mei-Ying Chi & Clara C.

Park (Eds.) (1999).  Wesport, Connecticut:  Greenwood Publishing Company.

As the first comprehensive survey of major Asian-American groups for educators, this expounds both linguistic and sociocultural backgrounds of seven Asian-American groups (Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese) and how Asian-American students fare American public schools socially, culturally and lingustically. Each chapter illuminates the unique educational issues, needs and challenges of its respective ethnic group and provides very practical and insightful suggestions for teachers, administrators and supportive service providers who work in public schools as well as teacher educators.