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Actividades de práctica con aprendices del español
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Actividades de práctica con aprendices del español is an online corpus of videos of second language and heritage language learners of Spanish during oral interviews and provides supplemental activities to help viewers investigate learners’ language and proficiency levels.

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
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Activity/Lab
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University of Texas at Austin
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COERLL
Author:
Dale Koike
Date Added:
02/20/2019
The Bilingual Language Profile
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There is great need to understand individuals' functional language abilities, not only in education but in commerce and public policy discussion. The aim is to quantify language use patterns, proficiency, and dominance in the two languages of bilinguals. 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.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
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Assessment
Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:
COERLL
Author:
Birdsong, D., Gertken, L.M., & Amengual, M.
Date Added:
02/20/2019
Chansons françaises
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Chansons françaises is the integrated music component of Français interactif. Chansons features a French or Francophone song, related to each chapter's cultural or pedagogical focus, presented via audio or video. Accompanying pdfs provide additional information, as well as comprehension exercises. Songs act as a portal to various Francophone cultures and musical genres. Aural comprehension and study of lyrics afford students practice with culturally authentic text and expression. Students discover yet another reason to be passionate about studying French!

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:
COERLL
Author:
Karen Kelton
Kelle Keating
Date Added:
02/20/2019
Chinese Dialogues Podcast
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This podcast series consists of simple dialogue exchanges. The listening materials are suitable for beginners and help them take the first step toward becoming proficient listeners. The contents of these 72 dialogues are completely based on the beginning level Chinese curriculum; they are creative yet realistic scenarios on topics that listeners can relate to, such as the social, family and school aspects of one’s life. Full transcripts transcripts in both traditional and simplified characters as well as English translations are provided as downloadable PDF documents. The podcast format enables a generation of increasingly ‘mobile’ learners to study the material ‘on-the-go’.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
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COERLL
Author:
Wen-Hua Teng
Date Added:
02/20/2019
Chinese Flashcards
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Practice vocabulary on the go! The original idea conceived by a fellow Chinese language student, this flashcard exercise is an engaging and effective way to review vocabulary terms from the convenience of your mobile device.

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
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COERLL
Author:
Wen-Hua Teng
Date Added:
02/20/2019
Chinese Take-In
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Chinese Take-In provides an interactive environment where first-year Chinese learners can practice listening outside the classroom according to individual needs and paces while receiving immediate feedback.

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:
COERLL
Author:
Teng
Wen-Hua
Date Added:
02/20/2019
Chqe’tamaj le qach’ab’al K’iche’! - A Beginner to Advanced Level K'iche' Online Course
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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. The team includes faculty and grad students at The University of Texas at Austin and at Vanderbildt University, as well as associates in Nahualá who are all working together to develop materials relevant for the course.

This will be the first full online course of any Mayan language. Based on the variety spoken in Nahualá, it seeks to develop oral fluency in the student in addition to an understanding of the grammar as well as reading skills. The intended audience for this pedagogical resource is foreign students interested in developing their language skills, as well as native teachers in bilingual schools through western Guatemala.

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
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COERLL
Date Added:
02/20/2019
ClicaBrasil
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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.

Reviews available here: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/clicabrasil-portuguese-language-and-culture-for-intermediate-students

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
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Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
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COERLL
Author:
Flanzer
Vivian
Date Added:
02/20/2019
ClicaBrasil: Portuguese Language and Culture for Intermediate Students
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ClicaBrasil was developed for intermediate level Portuguese language courses at UT-Austin. People all ove the world are now using it for different purposes: self-study, classroom instruction, tutoring, or as a pastime.The lessons in ClicaBrasil integrate reading, writing, listening and reading comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, oral communication, and cultural activities. Numerous video clips (157, to be precise!) that show different Brazilians speaking about their lives, their culture, and their country support and enhance these activities.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:
COERLL
Author:
Vivian Flanzer
Date Added:
10/26/2023
Conversa Brasileira
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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.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
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Activity/Lab
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Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:
COERLL
Author:
Kelm, Orlando
Date Added:
10/26/2023
Conversa Brasileira
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Conversa Brasileira is an online open access site that contains a series of 35 video scenarios in which Brazilians talk about their daily activities, everything from hobbies to shopping, and from traffic jams to soccer games. These materials are designed to help intermediate- and advanced-level learners of Portuguese to analyze the way that Brazilians really talk and improve in their own proficiency and fluency. This textbook provides a hardcopy of all of the online materials, including the dialog transcriptions, English translations, and lesson notes that link to the original website.

1. Animals 1: Dog Lovers 1
2. Animals 2: Dog Lovers 2
3. Travel 1: Hanging Out At Breakfast 1
4. Travel 2: Hanging Out At Breakfast 2
5. Hobbies I : Anne’s Almost 4 Months Old
6. Hobbies 2: Collecting Brazilian Musical Instruments
7. Relationships 1: It’s The Same Thing All Over Again
8. Relationships 2: Eloísa’s The Black Sheep Of The Family
9. Food 1: Kill Me Now, Or Feed Me Something Brazilian
10. Food 2: Brazilian “Churrasco” With A Capital Bbq!
11. Working Out 1: I'm Just Not Feeling It
12. Working Out 2: I Love Going To The Gym
13. Wedding 1: A Coisa Tava Chique!
14. Wedding: Mixing It Up. When Brazilians Marry Americans
15. Grandparents 1: Hopscotch And Marbles Or Polly Pocket?
16. Grandparents 2: Well Grandma, There Isan Easier Way To Do It
17. Moms In The Park 1: Don’t Cry. You’reok!
18. Moms In The Park 2: They Are Getting Along Really Well
19. School 1: I Have My Very Own Locker!
20. School 2: What Are You Doing About The Whole Lunch Thing?
21. Shopping 1: They’ll Love This With A Passion!
22. Shopping 2: It Looks Like Spun Gold, Doesn’t It?
23. Shopping 3: Capricha Lá!
24. Directions 1: Tô Perdido – I’m Lost
25. Directions 2: Moço, Dá Licença – I’m Lost
26. Traffic 1: Don’t Be Blaming Me On This!
27. Traffic 2: I Hate This Traffic!
28. Gossip 1: Ói, Que Safado!
29. Gossip 2: Vai Ser Uma Dupla Interessante
30. Soccer 1: Você Foi Muito Fominha Hoje!
31. Soccer 2: Ninguém Tira O Título Da Gente
32. Jam Session 1: Acabou Batendo Aqui Na Cabeça
33. Jam Session 2:Tem Que Agradar Todomundo, Né?
34. Studio 1: Behind The Scenes, Ói, Que Safado!
35. Studio 2: Behind The Scenes – Eu Também Acho

Reviews of the book available here: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/conversa-brasileira

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Interactive
Textbook
Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:
COERLL
Author:
Orlando R. Kelm
Date Added:
02/20/2019
Deutsch im Blick
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This textbook includes all 10 chapters of Deutsch im Blick. It accompanies http://coerll.utexas.edu/dib/, the web-based first-year German program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2008, and its companion site, Grimm Grammar http://coerll.utexas.edu/gg/. Deutsch im Blick is an open access site with free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees.

Deutsch im Blick has been funded and created by Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas, and is currently supported by COERLL, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning UT-Austin, and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE Grant P116B070251 & P116Y090057) as an example of the open access initiative.

Chapter 0 Introduction
Chapter 1 Ankunft In Würzburg
Chapter 2 An Der Uni
Chapter 3 Der Alltag Und Das Studentenleben
Chapter 4 Freizeit Und Ausgehen
Chapter 5 Familie, Feste Und Feiertage
Chapter 6 Durch Deutschland Und Die Welt Reisen
Chapter 7 Gesundheit Und Fitness
Chapter 8 Das Traumleben: Beziehungen, Wohnen Und Die Karriere
Chapter 9 Was Ist Deutsch?
Chapter 10 Auf Nach Berlin!

Textbook and reviews also available here: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/deutsch-im-blick

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Arts and Humanities
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Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:
COERLL
Author:
Zsuzsanna Abrams
Date Added:
02/20/2019
Deutsch im Blick
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This textbook includes all 10 chapters of Deutsch im Blick (2nd ed, 2017). Deutsch im Blick is the web-based first-year German program developed and in use at the University of Texas. It is an open access site with free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:
COERLL
Date Added:
10/26/2023
Enhancing French Skills
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Enhancing French skills is a website for intermediate learners of French. It includes authentic language videos from French websites, as well as interviews of French speakers on cultural topics. Videos and activities are organized into five broad themes and tagged by communicative language function with links into Tex’s French Grammar for specific grammar explanations and interactive exercises. Each theme includes a pdf of suggested classroom activities and homework.

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:
COERLL
Author:
Karen Kelton
Nancy Guilloteau
Date Added:
02/20/2019
Foreign Language Teaching Methods
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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.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
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Activity/Lab
Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Syllabus
Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:
COERLL
Author:
Blyth, Carl (ed.)
Date Added:
02/20/2019
Foreign Languages and the Literary in the Everyday (FLLITE)
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The FLLITE website contains a collection of lessons in second language literacy for various languages.

The website is the focal point of the FLLITE Project, which takes the creative moments found in everyday language use as the basis for lessons in second language literacy. By emphasizing language play as central to communication, FLLITE lessons aim to develop language awareness as well as communicative abilities through the integration of speaking, reading, listening, and writing tasks.

The goal of the FLLITE Project is the publication of classroom-tested lessons based on authentic texts in different languages, for example, blogs, Internet memes, YouTube videos, slam poetry, and so forth.

All FLLITE lessons carry an open license that allows you the teacher to…

…access, adapt, and re-use any lesson; and
…contribute a lesson for editorial feedback and publication.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:
COERLL
Author:
Center for Educational Resources in Culture Language and Literacy (CERCLL)
Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL)
Date Added:
02/20/2019
Français interactif
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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. Franais interactif was awarded the 2009 CALICO Esperanto Access to Language Education Award and the National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment Best of Humanities on the Web award (2005)

Reviews available here: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/francais-interactif

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Full Course
Homework/Assignment
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Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:
COERLL
Author:
Blyth
Carl
Guilloteau
Karen
Kelton
Nancy
Date Added:
02/20/2019
Français interactif
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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. Franais interactif was awarded the 2009 CALICO Esperanto Access to Language Education Award and the National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment Best of Humanities on the Web award (2005)

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Full Course
Homework/Assignment
Syllabus
Provider:
University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:
COERLL
Author:
Blyth, Carl
Guilloteau, Nancy
Kelton, Karen
Date Added:
10/26/2023