Trayectos is an open curriculum for beginning second language learners of Spanish. Trayectos features a learner-centered, multimodal approach grounded in the Multiliteracies pedagogy Learning by Design. A first-year curriculum that emphasizes the diversity of the Spanish-speaking world, Trayectos includes authentic digital media as well as a two-volume print textbook (available either as a PDF or as a hard copy book).
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Trayectos
Français interactif
Français interactif is a unique, award-winning 1st-year French curriculum used by learners all over the world. Students explore French language and culture by following the lives of real students who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. The online curriculum includes over 320 videos, vocabulary and phonetics audio, online grammar reference with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues, verb conjugation and practice tools, internet activities, and a textbook of classroom exercises.
ClicaBrasil
The Portuguese language lessons of ClicaBrasil highlight aspects of Brazilian culture. They are designed for intermediate to advanced students, but are accessible to everyone. Each lesson includes videos of Brazilians from all walks of life speaking naturally about their lives and their country. All lessons integrate reading, writing, listening and comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, oral communication and cultural activities with the videos. There is also an accompanying textbook. É isso aí! Agora é só clicar… e começar a se divertir! Boa viagem!
Reality Czech
Reality Czech includes vocabulary lists, cultural units, grammar explanations, interactive self correcting exercises, audio recordings and listening tasks, video interviews with native speakers and students of Czech, video interviews with native speakers of Czech, Czech cultural videos.
Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar
Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar was developed for intermediate level Turkish language courses at the University of Texas at Austin. Intermediate learners and their instructors may use it for different purposes: self-study, classroom instruction, tutoring, or as a pastime. The lessons in Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar integrate reading, listening and viewing comprehension, writing and speaking practice, grammar, vocabulary, and cultural activities. Dozens of audio and video clips of Turkish speakers describing their lives, their culture, and their country support and enhance these activities. The Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar textbook, accompanying public Canvas course, and Youtube channel comprise a media-rich open educational resource.
Chqeta’maj le qach’ab’al K’iche’!
Chqe’tamaj le qach’ab’al K’iche’! seeks to develop a beginner to advanced level online course for K’iche’, a Mayan language of Guatemala.
Nahuatlahtolli
By:
Sabina de la Cruz , Catalina de la Cruz , Josefrayn Sánchez-Perry , Kelly McDonough , Sergio Romero
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Nahuatlahtolli, a self-paced online multimedia course, is based on the Nahuatl variant from the Huasteca of Veracruz that is spoken in Chicontepec, Veracruz, Mexico. The principal aim of this course is to develop the student’s oral, written, and comprehension abilities, primarily through the study of grammar, listening, and reading. The intended audience for this pedagogical resource is foreign students interested in developing their language skills, as well as native teachers in bilingual schools in the Chicontepec region.
Deutsch im Blick
A multimedia 1st-year German language program based on videos of native speakers and the University of Texas Summer Program in Würzburg, Germany. The online textbook includes recorded vocabulary, phonetics lessons, an online grammar component, online comparative polls and internet writing activities.
Yorùbá Yé Mi
Yorùbá Yé Mi is an interactive, communicative, introductory, multimedia program intended to provide college/university students with basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills of language learning in Yorùbá. It exposes the learner not only to Yorùbá language in meaningful situations but also to the culture of the Yorùbá-speaking people of South-western Nigeria. It contains effective techniques for teaching and learning Yorùbá including tones, and is user-friendly in its approach.
Foreign Language Teaching Methods
An online, video-based methods course focusing on best practices for foreign language instruction at the high-school and college levels. It features 12 interactive media-rich modules taught by different professors from the University of Texas at Austin. Modules include Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pragmatics, Culture, The Language Learner, Technology, Classroom Management, and Assessment.
Format: Professional Development ModulesLicense: CC-BY-NC-SA
Introduction to OER for Language Teachers
A set of modules for language educators who are interested in learning about using and creating Open Educational Resources (OER).
Format: Professional Development ModulesLicense: CC-BY
Heritage Spanish Professional Development Modules
These modules are an ongoing TeCHS project aiming to provide relevant information and resources to promote, expand and celebrate heritage Spanish teaching and learning. Each self-paced module includes two to four lessons, presenting video clips from the workshops, reading assignments, activities, and resources, as well as self-graded quizzes.
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