COERLL’s Projects
Our projects have resulted in the development of Open Educational Resources (OER) for language teaching and learning, and the dissemination of Open Educational Practices (OEP) among language educators.
OER for UT Austin Language Courses 2022-2026
Así me expreso: OER for Intermediate Spanish
Así me expreso is a new Spanish textbook developed for the second semester Spanish course at UT Austin. It will…
Didxazá: Zapoteco del Istmo
Didxazá: Zapoteco del Istmo is an an online course in Zapotec, a language family spoken in southern Mexico. Developed in…
Estamos aquí! OER for Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL)
Estamos aquí! is an Open Educational Resource (OER) developed collaboratively by five Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL) educators from…
Français interactif: Modernization and Revamp of an Open-Source French Curriculum
For over 20 years, the Français interactif online textbook and its companion website Tex’s French Grammar have provided French language…
Giornate Italiane: Enhanced and Updated OER for Italian
The Giornate Italiane project is open educational resource (OER) that proposes at-home and in-class activities to help gain a comprehensive…
Hecho en Texas: First Year Spanish I
Hecho en Texas (Made in Texas) is a new Spanish textbook developed for the first semester Spanish course at UT…
OER for Beginning and Intermediate Croatian
Tako lako, which translates into English as It’s So Easy, is a free online textbook intended for beginner-level learners of Croatian.…
Quechua Tinkuy
Quechua Tinkuy provides a series of materials from the basic to intermediate levels for the Quechua language, the most widely…
Sinema Tutkusu: Turkish Language and Culture through Film
Sinema Tutkusu: Turkish Language and Culture through Film is a communicative OER textbook that uses engaging, authentic cultural materials —…
Будем на связи: Open Textbook for Russian
Будем на связи (We’ll be in Touch / Online) originated as a sequence of copyrighted online courses developed at the…
Language Resource Center Grant 2018-2022
¡Listos!: The Heritage Spanish Lesson Project
¡Listos! is a series of units for Heritage Spanish learners in grades 6-12. Three lessons aligned to the K12 Texas Essential Knowledge and…
“Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching” book
There is a lack of research on the subject of open education in the field of foreign language learning and teaching. To fill…
ClicaBrasil Print-on-demand Textbook
ClicaBrasil is a widely-used intermediate online course from the University of Texas at Austin that develops skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking. ClicaBrasil contains videos shot…
Foreign Languages and the Literary in the Everyday
The FLLITE project, a collaboration of CERCLL (University of Arizona) and COERLL, helps to bridge the language/literature divide found in many foreign…
Games2Teach Collaboratory
Based on the Games2Teach project pioneered by CASLS (Oregon) and CERCLL (Arizona), CASLS and COERLL will co-host the Games2Teach Collaboratory…
Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar! (Everything Begins with a Hello!)
Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar! is a multimedia textbook with supplementary materials for intermediate Turkish language learners, developed by…
Language Learning & Technology
LL&T focuses on issues related to language learning and language teaching, and how they are affected by the use of digital technologies. LL&T has…
LCTLs OER Consultancy
Language instructors often contact COERLL for advice about open licenses and open design. COERLL is currently involved in LCTL projects in…
OER for Teaching and Learning Nahuatl
This project aims to develop 30 units of multimedia learning materials for Huasteca Nahuatl to be published online in both Spanish and English. They will…
Reality Czech: A Course in Contemporary Czech Language and Culture
Reality Czech is a contemporary, interactive, and personalized curriculum for beginning language students. Designed using techniques of blended and flipped learning, it spans several…
Texas Coalition for Heritage Spanish (TeCHS)
In 2015, the Hispanic community represented 40% of Texas population but as today there are only a handful of colleges…
Trayectos
Trayectos is a two-volume, open online textbook for beginning second language learners of Spanish. The objective of this project is…
Language Resource Center Grant 2014-2018
Assessing the OER Needs of FL Educators in the US: High Schools, Community Colleges and Four-Year Colleges
Based on the findings of the OER/OEP survey project, this project will involve a needs analysis of FL educators in…
Workshops and Webinars
COERLL hosted free and low-cost workshops and webinars on various topics relevant to foreign language teaching, instructional design and technology,…
The TELL Collab
The goal of the annual TELL Collab event will be to improve the professional development of FL K-12 teachers by…
Tadriis: Arabic Teaching Methods Website
The Tadriis site is a multimedia online Arabic teacher training intended for Arabic teachers in the U.S. and abroad. It…
TELL Badges: Open Digital Badges for K-12 Professional Development
COERLL is developing a professional development badge system based on the TELL Framework (“Teacher Effectiveness for Language Learning”). COERLL will assist the…
User-Generated Materials for Heritage Spanish
Two goals of COERLL’s heritage Spanish project are to help teachers develop effective methods and materials for teaching multi-level heritage…
Chqe’tamaj le qach’ab’al K’iche’! (Let’s learn K’iche’)
In collaboration with the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), COERLL is creating open learning materials for…
Língua da Gente: Mobile Language Learning for Portuguese
Língua da Gente is a Portuguese language learning podcast series written and hosted by Professor Orlando Kelm from the University…
Social Reading and Annotation
eComma (aka “The eCommentary Machine”) is a web application that enables groups of students to comment together on a text.…
Language Resource Center Grant 2010-2014
Yorùbá Open Access Textbook
This open access, print-on-demand textbook will help beginning learners of Yorùbá develop communicative skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing.…
Cultural Photo Archive
The idea behind the LESCANT Photo Database is to give students experience in identifying and analyzing cultural differences that come…
Frame Semantics for Language Learning
This project develops a prototype of a multilingual corpus-based lexicon of Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and…
Hindi in America
Hindi in America builds on Hindi-Urdu Flagship initiatives by establishing an ambitious collection of interviews with Hindi-speakers that will provide…
Brazilpod
Brazilpod is a collection of online, open access, and free-to-use materials for the learning of Portuguese as a foreign language.…
Proficiency Assessment Training
The purpose of these materials is to help future public school teachers of Spanish in their assessment of learners’ levels…
Arabic Listening Comprehension
Aswaat Arabiyya “Arabic Voices,” is a website designed for learners and teachers of Arabic seeking materials for listening comprehension. Aswaat…
Spanish in Texas Corpus
Spanish is not a foreign language in Texas. Many Texans speak Spanish on a regular basis at home, at work,…
Gateway to Chinese
The project developed a suite of free interactive language learning resources for beginning Mandarin Chinese, giving students the option to…
Bilingual Assessment
In many areas of education, commerce, and public policy, there is a need to understand the functional language abilities of…
Additional Projects
Foreign Language Teaching Methods
In 2009, the Texas Language Technology Center (now COERLL) was awarded a Professional Development Modules grant from the Texas Higher…
The Texas Language Technology Open Access Initiative (TLTOAI)
In the Fall of 2007 the Texas Language technology Center (now COERLL), in collaboration with Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services…
The Texas Language Technology Textbook Initiative
This two-year award of $263,000 from the US Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) was…
SpinTX: From Corpus to Classroom
COERLL’s Spanish in Texas Corpus (SpinTX) project was selected to receive funding from the Longhorn Innovation Fund for Technology (LIFT)…