The Tarea Libre project is a comprehensive and accessible Open Educational Resources question bank of 1,400 interactive activities created in LibreStudio and ADAPT for first-year Spanish courses for California Community Colleges. The content can be used via ADAPT or linked to a campus Learning Management System via LTI. This LTI integration seamlessly connects the assigned activities to the grade …

Instructor Guide: Tarea Libre I (ASCCC OERI, Moon, Lee, Harmon, and Meléndez-Ballesteros) (CC BY)Read More »

Part 1 and Part 2 are designed for first-year Spanish with the goal of increasing oral proficiency according to ACTFL standards. The activities are designed to be versatile for working on at-home, in-class, as solo activities, with partners or groups. Students can use this book as a workbook, and access it on any of their …

¡Cultivemos! 1 and ¡Cultivemos! 2 (CSU Pueblo) (CC BY-NC-SA)Read More »

This is an open educational, content-forward resource for first-semester students of Spanish that seeks to foster appreciation of the Spanish-speaking world and contributions of Latinos to American society while developing novice-mid proficiency in productive and receptive skills. The authors, Lennie Amores, PhD (University of Miami), and Janice Rodríguez, MA (University of Pennsylvania), have a combined …

Nuestra comunidad latina (Amores and Rodríguez, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)Read More »

PLUMA is a narrative-based language learning program for the first three levels of college Spanish. This program is organically aligned with ACTFL, featuring Can-Do Statements as an organizing principle. It is grounded in narrative-based teaching and learning that evolves from people’s lived experiences and fragments of the history and culture of their countries of origin. Storytelling …

Pluma (Hernández, 2021) (CC BY NC SA)Read More »

This is an open course with shareable course material including syllabi, course activities, reading, and assessments. Students will learn vocabulary related to celebrations and the stages of life, personal relationships, health and medical conditions and parts of the body, the car and its accessories, computers and electronic products, the parts of the house and household …

Spanish 3 (Kelly-Glasoe, Soltman, & Flores, 2013) (CC BY 3.0)Read More »

This is an open course with shareable course material including syllabi, course activities, reading, and assessments. Students will learn vocabulary related to transportation and lodging, days of the week, months, seasons, weather expressions, clothing, colors, daily routine, personal hygiene, sequencing expressions, foods, meals and adjectives that describe food.  Students will learn grammatical structures that support …

Spanish 2 (Kelly-Glasoe, Soltman, & Flores, 2013) (CC BY 3.0)Read More »

This is an open course with shareable course material including syllabi, course activities, reading, and assessments. Completion of the study of the first-year sequence of basic skills. This course was formerly known as Spanish 101. Prerequisite: none. Students will learn vocabulary related to greetings and farewells, courtesy expressions, college courses, professions, family relationships, pastimes, city …

Spanish 1 (Kelly-Glasoe, Soltman, & Flores, 2013) (CC BY 3.0)Read More »