OER Developer: COERLL
Así me expreso
Así me expreso: Discovering Your Spanish Proficiency is an intermediate-level Spanish Open Educational Resource (OER) developed at The University of Texas at Austin. Grounded in a student-centered and constructivist approach, Así me expreso supports a flipped, discovery-based model and is designed to help learners actively build communicative competence.
Estamos aquí!
Estamos aquí! is an Open Educational Resource (OER) developed collaboratively by five Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL) educators from across the United States. Focusing on US Spanish, Estamos aquí! explores the histories, cultures, linguistic practices, and identities of Latine communities in all regions of the country. Created for intermediate-level SHL courses, its flexible, modular……
Enhancing French Skills
Enhancing French skills is a website for intermediate learners of French. Students expand their knowledge of the French language and francophone cultures and continue the development of their communicative abilities by practicing the four basic skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading.
Quechua Tinkuy
Quechua Tinkuy provides a series of materials from the basic to intermediate levels for the Quechua language, the most widely spoken indigenous language in Peru and in the Americas in general.
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……
Tako Lako
Tako Lako is a free, open-access online platform for learning Croatian, featuring two complete digital textbooks: Tako Lako (It’s So Easy) for beginner learners and Navrh Jezika (On the Tip of the Tongue) for intermediate learners. Both textbooks emphasize the development of intercultural communicative competence. Through interactive lessons, multimedia content, and engaging narratives, learners build practical language skills while gaining insight……
“Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching” Book
An openly-licensed book of case studies on the subject of open education in the field of language learning and teaching.
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).
Chinese Grammar Lesson Videos
A collection of video lessons on grammar topics for beginning Mandarin Chinese, available as a YouTube playlist.
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……
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.
Conversa Brasileira
A compilation of video scenarios of people interacting with each other in Portuguese. Conversations include dialogs, questions, turn taking exchanges, clarifications, false starts, hugs, laughter, asides. The scenarios are enhanced by transcriptions, translations, content analysis, and notes and discussion blogs.