Open Educational Resources and the Spanish Transfer Model Curriculum - ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative

Indicated resources are samples. Find a complete curated collection of OER for the discipline at Open Educational Resources and Spanish. Please note that the structure presented here aligns with the Spanish TMC. While all local Associate Degrees for Transfer will consist of some version of the Core Courses, the TMC introduces flexibility with respect to “List A”, as well as the options colleges provide to students who need courses to substitute for units they placed out of. If you are using OER to teach courses in your local Spanish ADT that are not listed at Open Educational Resources and Spanish or on this page, please let us know what OER you are using.

“Core” Courses

Local departmental placement evaluation determines the course level where individual students begin the core courses. Credit or placement equivalent to two years of college level Spanish are required. If a student places out of any course and is not awarded units for that course, the student will have to take additional units to compensate for the course/units needed to reach at least 18 total units in the major (per Title 5 regulations). Course substitutions are made at the discretion of the local college and may or may not be delineated in the local degree. Suggested substitutions include courses in List A. Additional suggested substitutions have also been provided below.

Elementary Spanish I (C-ID SPAN 100) and Elementary Spanish II (C-ID SPAN 110)

¡Bienvenidos! Spanish Language Textbook (Farmer et al., 2020) (CC BY 4.0)
Libro Libre (Huebener); Libro Libre (Huebener) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Libro Libre is an introductory Spanish OER textbook developed by Erin Huebener from Spokane Community College. It consists of 10 chapters. Each chapter contains cultural reading, vocabulary, grammar, activities, and end-of-chapter goals.
Introductory Spanish I (Brown, Escudero, Montoya, and Small); Introductory Spanish I (Brown et al.) – LibreTexts (Licenses vary; resource requires review prior to use) Spanish 1 was designed and developed by the Spanish department at SUNY Oneonta in cooperation with Lumen Learning.
Introductory Spanish 2 (Brown, Escudero, Montoya, and Small); Introductory Spanish 2 (Brown et al.) – LibreTexts (Licenses vary; resource requires review prior to use) Spanish 2 was designed and developed by the Spanish department at SUNY Oneonta in cooperation with Lumen Learning.
Elementary Spanish I (Serrano, 2016) (CC BY-NC-SA)
Hola a Todos: Elementary Spanish I (Stone et al, 2018) (CC BY 3.0)
¡Naveguemos juntos! (2021) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Spanish I: Beginning Spanish Language and Culture (Dean, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Beginning Spanish, ¡Empecemos por aquí! Ceciliano and Notman, 2022, Portland State University) (CC-BY-NC)
¡Chévere! Introductory Spanish I and II (Small, Escudero, Montoya, and Ed Beck., 2021, State University of New York, College at Oneonta) (CC-BY)
Spanish 1 (Kelly-Glasoe, Soltman, & Flores, 2013) (CC BY 3.0)
Spanish 2 (Kelly-Glasoe, Soltman, & Flores, 2013) (CC BY 3.0)
Spanish 3 (Kelly-Glasoe, Soltman, & Flores, 2013) (CC BY 3.0)
Pluma (Hernández, 2021) (CC BY NC SA)
Nuestra comunidad latina (Amores and Rodríguez, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Intermediate Spanish I (C-ID SPAN 200) or Spanish for Heritage Speakers I (C-ID SPAN 220)

Some resources above are applicable.

Intermediate Spanish II (C-ID SPAN 210) or Spanish for Heritage Speakers II (C-ID SPAN 230)

A combination of resources may be needed to meet C-ID descriptor.

Culture

Acceso (Rossomondo, 2020) (CC BY-NC 4.0) A complete interactive online curriculum for intermediate-level learners of second-year Spanish developed at the University of Kansas.

Grammar Review

Entrada Libre (Ballesteros, Lee, Cristoso, and Moon, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Entrada Libre is an intermediate/advanced college-level Spanish OER grammar manual for second language learners and heritage speakers of Spanish at the community college level.
Spanish Grammar Manual (Yepes, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA) This is a bilingual grammar manual for advanced students. It can be used for general review and reference in courses from second-year Spanish (B2) up.
Redes 2: Curso de español intermedio (Warnock, 2021 ); Redes 2: Curso de español intermedio (Warnock, 2021) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC 4.0) This OER was developed by Ines Warnock from Portland State University.
Español y cultura en perspectiva (Balasch et al.) Licenses vary.
Manual de gramática básica y avanzada del español (Thomas and McAlister, 2020); Manual de gramática básica y avanzada del español (Thomas and McAlister, 2020) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Mi idioma, mi comunidad: español para bilingües (Foulis and Alex) (CC BY-NC-ND)
Manual de gramática y composición (Oechler, Gettysburg College, 2021) (CC BY-NC-SA)

For Heritage Speakers

OER Spanish Heritage Speakers (Casas, 2021); OER Spanish Heritage Speakers (Casas, 2021) – LibreTexts. (Linn-Benton Community College, CC BY-NC-SA)

List A – Select one from the following:

Spanish Composition

Introducción a la escritura: Genre-Based Writing for Intermediate Spanish Students (Zapata, 2021) (CC BY-SA 4.0) This is a course for intermediate low/intermediate mid L2 Spanish students grounded in the tenets of the multiliteracies framework Learning by Design and Genre-Based Instruction.

Elementary or Intermediate Conversational Spanish

¡Que viva la música! Repaso de conversación (Corrales-Martín, 2021, North Board Press Temple UP) (CC BY-NC 4.0) This is an open textbook intended for conversation review, typically a fourth-semester Spanish class.

Introduction to Spanish/Hispanic/Latin-American Literature

Antología abierta de literatura hispana (Ward, 2019); Antología abierta de literatura hispana (Ward, 2019) – LibreTexts (CC BY) This anthology focuses on canonical authors and an attempt to include voices that have been marginalized. Each text includes an introduction and annotations created by students. Some of the authors include: Don Juan Manuel, Cristóbal Colón, Hernán Cortés, Sor Juana, Gustavo Bécquer, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Rubén Darío, and many others.
Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español (Sander, 2017); Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español (Sanders, 2017) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
This is an introductory textbook on nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a thematic focus on legends and archetypes. It is designed for intermediate Spanish students at the university level. It includes poetry, drama in verse, and short story.
Recorridos (Arnold and Potter, 2017) (CC BY) This textbook is designed to facilitate the teaching and understanding of Cervantes’s seminal work, Don Quijote, with historical information, narrative techniques, lists of characters, themes and keywords.

Latin American/Spanish History

LACLI (Latin American, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian Online Free E-Resources) “LACLI is a collective effort to create a warehouse of online free e-resources with Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian full content.”