ELS is a collection of activities based on critical pedagogies that serves to introduce students to a range of concepts in sociolinguistics and critical inquiry into language ideologies. Some of the activities are written in both English and Spanish, and resources are also in both languages. Working in two languages will allow students to reproduce the linguistic practices of bilinguals. Heritage learners of Spanish should find these practices familiar, and students learning Spanish as a second language will benefit from the scaffolding of using some English.
Empowering Learners of Spanish
Author(s):
Claudia Holguín Mendoza, Robert L. Davis, Munia Cabal Jiménez, Julie Weise, Kelley León Howarth, & Heather Quarles
Resource Type: Lesson Units / ActivitiesAcceso
Author(s):
KU Open Language Resource Center
The University of Kansas Collaborative Digital Spanish Project (Acceso) is an open-access, digital learning environment designed to promote the acquisition of Spanish and the development of cultural understanding of the varied groups of people who share Spanish as a common language.
Resource Type: Textbooks / Course MaterialsSpanish for Heritage Speakers 2 (SPA 114)
Author(s):
Evelyn Durán Urrea
This is a beginning course with emphasis on elements of grammatical structures and practice in reading, writing and oral exposition. Spanish 114 is the second level of a course designed for bilingual or Spanish heritage students to allow these students to obtain and develop the necessary skills to communicate in standard or academic Spanish. Spanish 114 is designed for students who have been reared in a Spanish-speaking environment and speak or understand some Spanish as a result of having heard it in the home and community by parents or grandparents, family, friends, and neighbors.
Resource Type: Textbooks / Course MaterialsEspañol para hablantes nativos: Lenguaje en acción
Author(s):
Amalia Carter, Joe Romero, y Cecelia Monto
Este libro fue elaborado teniendo en cuenta las necesidades del estudiante de habla hispana. El contenido combina elementos gramaticales con diversos y relevantes temas del mundo de hoy.
Resource Type: Textbooks / Course MaterialsLos acentos del español
Author(s):
El País
Los acentos del español is a fun quiz to learn to distinguish some of the varieties of Spanish around the world created by the Spanish newspaper El País.
Resource Type: MultimediaTeacher-authored materials from the COERLL Collaborators program
Author(s):
Josie Jessier & Alex Zunterstein
Teacher-authored materials from the COERLL Collaborators program are a product of a school year’s worth of work. Teachers attended COERLL’s summer 2017 Spanish heritage language workshop, submitted lesson proposals, wrote their lessons, and edited and finalized their work based on feedback from the heritage Spanish project team.
- Videos for Elementary and Middle School Learners of Spanish [CC] by Josie Jesser (The Girls School of Austin)
- La Imaginación [CC] by Josie Jesser (a lesson plan to accompany one of the videos listed above)
- Spanglish en los medios de comunicación [CC] by Alex Zunterstein (University of Oregon)
Resource Type: Lesson Units / ActivitiesCatálogo de voces hispánicas
Author(s):
Centro Virtual Cervantes
Catálogo de voces hispánicas is a video corpus of speakers of Spanish from around the world.
Resource Type: MultimediaSpanish Proficiency Exercises
Author(s):
Orlando Kelm
Spanish Proficiency Exercises is a compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks.
Resource Type: AssessmentsOral Narratives of Latin@s in Ohio
Author(s):
Elena Foulis
Oral Narratives of Latin@s in Ohio is a statewide initiative to collect, catalog, and preserve oral narratives of Latinos/as in Ohio in collaboration with the Ohio Hispanic Heritage Project and the Center for Folklore Studies, directed by Elena Foulis. You can also download her free book Latin@ Stories Across Ohio from iTunes. In addition, Ohio Habla is a podcast born out of the oral history project about Latin@s in Ohio, Oral Narratives of Latin@s in Ohio (ONLO). It seeks to amplify the Latin@ experience with interviews in Spanish, English, and Spanglish
Resource Type: MultimediaSpanish Heritage Course Oral History Project
Author(s):
Emily Bernate
A semester-long project where students collaborated between the university and their local high school to produce a collection of oral histories. The students engaged in archival and interview training to engage with the elders in the community to highlight the importance of Spanish. The project concluded with a gala night where students presented their final product to the community. Here is a video where Dr. Emily Bernate explains in more detail her project. Below you will find a list of the resources she developed to carry out this project.
Resource Type: Multimedia