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Educational resources for teachers and learners of Spanish in Texas

The story of don Quixote is perfect to promote authentic communication and critical thinking in the upper level Spanish classroom. A companion Teacher Support is available.

This website provides access to a corpus of Spanish and bilingual Spanish-English speech samples.

A compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks.

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.

Classroom activities written for specific levels of proficiency using COERLL’s multimedia Spanish resources

Supplementary materials for beginning Spanish that focus on issues of cultural identity of Spanish speakers in the United States.

A collection of activities that introduce heritage and L2 students to a range of concepts in sociolinguistics and encourage critical inquiry into language ideologies.

An introductory textbook on nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a thematic focus on legends and archetypes.

These activities for heritage learners explore students’ perceptions of their heritage and linguistic strengths while raising consciousness about social varieties used throughout the Spanish-speaking world.