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  • Foreign Language Teaching Methods

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    Carl Blyth et. al.

    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.

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  • Introduction to OER for Language Teachers

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    COERLL

     A set of modules for language educators who are interested in learning about using and creating Open Educational Resources (OER). 

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  • Heritage Spanish Professional Development Modules

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    Texas Coalition for Heritage Spanish

    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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  • “Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching” Book

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    Carl Blyth , Joshua Thoms

    An openly-licensed book of case studies on the subject of open education in the field of language learning and teaching.

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  • Foreign Languages & The Literary in the Everyday

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    Joanna G. Luks , Carl Blyth , Chantelle Warner

    The FLLITE Project takes the creative moments found in everyday language use in authentic texts such as blogs, internet memes, YouTube videos, and slam poetry, as the basis for lessons in second language literacy. By emphasizing language play as central to communication, teacher-authored FLLITE lessons aim to develop language awareness as well as communicative abilities through the integration of speaking, reading, listening, and writing tasks.

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  • Spanish Grammar in Context

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    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.

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  • Grimm Grammar

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    Zsuzsanna Abrams

    An online German grammar reference, featuring zany post-modern Grimm’s fairy tale characters, authoritative grammar explanations, self-correcting exercises, online audio and cartoon images.

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  • Tex’s French Grammar

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    Carl Blyth , Karen Kelton

    An online pedagogical reference grammar of the French language that combines authoritative grammar explanations, self-correcting exercises and online audio with surreal dialogues and cartoon images.

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  • Conversa Brasileira

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    Orlando Kelm

    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.

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  • Bilingual Language Profile

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    Dr. David Birdsong , Dr. Mark Amengual

    The Bilingual Language Profile (BLP) is an instrument for assessing language dominance through self-reports that is concise, quick, and easy to use. The BLP is intended to produce a continuous dominance score and a general bilingual profile taking into account a variety of linguistic variables. The BLP is an open and free assessment tool for researchers, educators, and anyone with an interest in assessing language dominance.

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  • Língua da Gente

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    Orlando Kelm

    In Brazil, the term língua da gente (literally ‘language of the people’) refers to the way that people actually talk in everyday speech. This audio podcast series provides practical lessons that demonstrate how people really speak, presenting brief, slice-of-life dialogs, which focus on some daily situation, scenario, or task that we encounter every day. Each podcast includes the presentation of a brief dialog, a line-by-line English translation, and more in-depth analysis of the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and cultural content in the lesson.

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  • SpinTX Video Archive

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    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.

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