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.
OER for Language Teaching and Learning
OER Language: Spanish
Así me expreso
By:
Melissa Dae Murphy , Sarah Jey Whitehead
Hecho en Texas
By:
Joshua Frank
The title of this textbook is Hecho en Texas, which means Made in Texas. The material in this textbook has been developed for learners of Spanish in Texas. It is designed to guide the student’s learning process and discovery of the Spanish-speaking world in Texas and beyond. Hecho en Texas is an adaptation of Trayectos.
Estamos aquí!
By:
Angélica Amezcua , Flavia Belpoliti , Anel Brandl , Stephanie Gonzalez , Jocelly G. Meiners
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 design allows instructors to adapt lessons to support a variety of classroom contexts and student needs.
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.
Recorridos por la literatura hispana
By:
Rose Potter , Betsy Arnold
COERLL has partnered with Rose Potter and Betsy Arnold to publish Recorridos-Don Quijote, a pair of openly-licensed books for the study of Cervantes’ Don Quijote in upper level Spanish courses, including AP. The student workbook, accessible online for free, deepens students’ understanding of the text through reading, pre-reading, and post-reading activities and glosses. The companion teacher support facilitates the teaching of Don Quijote through student-centered strategies and activities, historical and cultural information, quizzes, exams and more.
Spanish Grammar in Context
By:
Barbara E. Bullock , Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Spanish Grammar in Context is a unique website that provides detailed grammar explanations and examples of the Spanish language with accompanying practice questions. Unlike traditional reference grammars, each topic is explained using authentic video examples. These examples come from the Spanish in Texas project, which profiles Spanish as it is spoken throughout Texas today. Online practice quizzes are included for each grammar section.
Spanish Proficiency Exercises
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A compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks.
Spanish Proficiency Training Website and Learner Corpus
By:
Dale Koike
The purpose of these materials is to help future public school teachers of Spanish in their assessment of learners’ levels of proficiency. These materials not only present videos of learners interacting with an interlocutor, but also direct the viewer to notice features about the learners’ language and proficiency levels. The website also presents information on proficiency levels to help the viewer develop a greater awareness of differences in learner language.
SpinTX Video Archive
By:
Barbara E. Bullock , Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
The SpinTX video archive provides a convenient web interface to search hundreds of short video clips from the Spanish in Texas Corpus. The collection includes hundreds of video clips culled from interviews of native and heritage speakers of Spanish living in Texas. Each video is accompanied by synchronized closed captions and a transcript that has been annotated with thematic, grammatical, functional and metalinguistic information. All materials available on the site can be freely used, copied, and distributed under a Creative Commons license.
¡Listos!
By:
Meredith Clark , José Sologuren
¡Listos! is a series of units for Heritage Spanish learners in grades 6-12. Three lessons aligned to the K12 Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) form four thematic clusters. Relevant scenarios related to personal life, college tasks, career readiness and civic participation frame each lesson and increase student engagement by making learning authentic and relevant to real issues that students face.
Trayectos
By:
Gabriela Zapata , Alessandra Ribota
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).
Introduction to Oral Proficiency Levels (Spanish)
By:
Judith E. Liskin-Gasparro
Introduction to Oral Proficiency Levels is a free open educational resource that can help Spanish teachers gain a foundational understanding of how to evaluate Spanish speakers. The resource includes 17 video-based practice modules designed to strengthen your understanding of the ACTFL Speaking Proficiency Guidelines and to help you evaluate the speaking levels of your language students.
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