Research Guides: Open Education: Foreign Languages and Literatures

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Finding openly licensed foreign language resources
Infographic from the Center for Open Educational Resources and language Learning, University of Texas at Austin

Foreign Languages and Literatures

On this page you will find several openly licensed Foreign Language and Literature textbooks along with supplemental material, interactive simulations, and other resources.

Discipline-specific pages are not intended to be exhaustive, but to showcase content that may be of interest to faculty considering adopting open educational resources for use in their classes.

For more information about Creative Commons including license descriptions, please see the Creative Commons tab.

Featured Resource

Voices for Openness in Language Learning
Meet faculty who teach a variety of languages and have benefited from and contributed to foreign language OER.

Open Textbooks

Deutsch im Block
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. Deutsch im Blick has a companion grammar reference site: Grimm Grammar http://coerll.utexas.edu/gg
Francais interactif
A 13- chapter French textbook.

Activities

El español en los Estados Unidos
Supplementary materials for students in beginning Spanish that focus on issues of cultural identity of Spanish speakers in the United States. Includes glossed readings, extensive multimedia content and flash-based comprehension questions.
Acceso
A media-rich curriculum for intermediate Spanish that answers the MLA's call for the development of "transcultural and translingual competence" and serves as a platform for collaboration among instructors learning about technology. Winner of the 2012 Focus Award from the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO).
French à la mode
Activities for French learners at the beginning and intermediate levels that are intended to be used in conjunction with any curriculum. The interactive nature of many of the activities also make the site suitable for independent study or practice.
Между нами: An Interactive Introduction to Russian
A complete web-based curriculum for introductory Russian. Winner of the 2016 Access to Language Education award from the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium and the 2017 Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy award from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. Introduced in Fall of 2015, the curriculum has been adopted by twenty universities (http://www.mezhdunami.org/instructors/adoptees.shtml) for Fall 2017.

Course materials: Lecture Videos, Interactive Simulations etc.

Language Learning Materials
A growing collection of language learning materials covering: Portuguese, German, French, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Italian, Russian, Yoruba, Biblical Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Malayalam, and more.
OER Commons - Arabic
Free to use, openly licensed resources from K-12 to college. Featuring islamic studies, art, poetry, music, literature, history, and Arabic language.
(Arabic Interface) https://arabic.oercommons.org/AR