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This course will emphasize the development of practical communicative ability in Thai along with basic cultural knowledge of Thai. The class has a supervised self-study structure. Students are required to study the textbook and practice with assigned audiovisual materials (CDs, DVDs or computer video files) by themselves outside the class. Students have practice sessions three hours per week with a language trainer who is a native/near native speaker (or ACTFL advanced-high or superior level) of the language in class. The language trainer will help students develop their communicative ability during class meetings. During the sessions students will actively participate in practicing spoken language to acquire better pronunciation and conversation skills. English use will be kept to a minimum in class. Language trainers will monitor active participation throughout the semester by use of the Student Performance Sheet which will be sent to the director of the CLC. Regular class attendance and participation is required. Cultural aspects of Thai will be added to communication practice of Thai.