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Avant-Première : Intermediate French Through Films
Caren Barnezet Parrish & Aurélie Chevant-Aksoy · Chabot College
This course is the third semester of French. This intermediate level course is a study of the French language and French-speaking cultures, with continued emphasis on the development of communicative skills and basic structures. Course combines in-class instruction with self-paced study in the Foreign Language Laboratory.
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Libro Libre - Beginning Spanish
Erin Huebener · Spokane Community College
One of the most important things we can do to hold ourselves accountable for our learning is to engage in goal setting and metacognition—a fancy term for thinking about the way we think and learn. The goals we set should be specific and achievable. Something like “Speak Spanish” is too broad, we need to focus on the steps we need to take to get there and the signs that we will see as proof of our progress.
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Second Year Russian Bridge Course
Shannon Donnally Quinn · Michigan State University
This text is an intermediate-level development resource for Russian communication skills. It builds on further presentation and discussion of original oral and written texts on aspects of Russian life and culture.
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College ESL Writers Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success
Barbara Hall and Elizabeth Wallace · Georgia State University - Perimeter College
This text is designed as a comprehensive grammar and writing resource for high intermediate and advanced level non-native speakers of English. We open the text with a discussion on the sentence and then break it down into its elemental components, before reconstructing them into effective sentences with paragraphs and larger academic assignments.
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PLUMA 2: Historias en Español
Pilar Hernández · MiraCosta College
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 and as a springboard from which the learner can direct and personalize their learning. 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.
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Spanish Through Literature and the Arts Indigenous Perspectives on Global Issues
María Datel · Boston University
This Spanish conversation and composition textbook explores indigenous cultures throughout Latin America from a decolonial standpoint which challenges the impacts of colonization and unlearns the legacies it has left behind. We will recognize that such cultures offer insights and alternatives to resolving modern-day crises – including climate change, food sovereignty, healthcare access, and gender inequalities – while refraining from romanticizing an idealized past.
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Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español
Robert Sanders · Portland State University
Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español is an introduction to nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a thematic focus on legends and archetypes. It presents Romanticism in the context of nineteenth-century literary and social movements. It is designed as a first anthology for intermediate Spanish students at American universities. Although brief, it includes poetry, drama in verse and short story. The works have been selected for their literary interest and the social importance.
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Keys to Understanding the Middle East
Payind and McClimans · Ohio State University
In the contents: 01: Languages
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ASL-131: American Sign Language I
René Lopez-Roedel and Jacob A Roedel · Palo Verde College
This workbook supports your study of American Sign Language (ASL), Deaf culture, and Deaf history. Throughout the course, you will explore the historical, cultural, and social experiences of Deaf communities in the United States and around the world, while learning about the important individuals, events, and cultural concepts that have shaped ASL and the Deaf community.
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#OnYGo
Géraldine Blattner, Amanda Dalola, and Stéphanie Roulon · Florida Atlantic University, University of Minnesota, and Portland State University
OnYGo is an innovative first-year French language OER textbook. It is inspired by a remix of task-based, multiliteracies and communicative approaches, which provides students with opportunities to engage with French language and culture in a variety of contexts, across a range of modalities. Through a wide range of activities, students develop and practice their language skills, and reflect on their cross-cultural knowledge and positionality in their understanding of the francophone landscape.
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Arabic Level Four
Hana Kassas · Cuyamaca College
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Bate-Papo: An Introduction to Portuguese
Eduardo Viana da Silva · University of Washington
This book was developed having in mind university students who speak English as their first language. We also took into consideration speakers of Spanish by highlighting some key similarities and differences between the two languages. Although this material was developed for university students, we hope that most of its content is also applicable to high school students, adolescents, and adults learning Portuguese, including immigrants in Brazil.
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Italian Language and Culture II
Caterina Pieri · Oakland University
Thank you for choosing to browse the contents of Introduction to Italian Language and Culture II. This textbook is designed to support the instructional needs of anglophone college students approaching the study of Italian as a foreign language, and it illustrates some basic grammar and vocabulary that are commonly covered during a second semester of instruction.
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Civilización hispanoamericana
Elizabeth Small · SUNY Oneonta
Un recorrido por la historia y cultura de Hispanoamérica, diseñado para estudiantes de la lengua española a nivel intermedio.
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Elementary Arabic
Ayman Mohamed and Sadam Issa · Michigan State University
This is an open textbook on Elementary Arabic for undergraduate students who are taking Arabic in their second semester. It addresses language structures in theme-based modules that cover the four language skills. The book can be used as a self-study resource or as the main textbook in beginning Arabic classes.
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In the Community - An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook
NorQuest College · LibreTexts
The textbook is aimed at Canadian Language Benchmarks levels 5/6. It aims are to: helps learners notice, learn, and practice English that will be helpful in your community gives learners practice in the four main language skills–listening, speaking, reading, and writing helps learners learn about intercultural skills helps learners develop some important essential skills can be used as an online textbook with interactive activities or downloaded, printed and used as a regular textbook.
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People and Places: An Intermediate Integrated-Skills Module for English Learners
Sara Ferguson · Grossmont Community College
This module has materials to learn and practice all of the necessary language skills at the intermediate level in college. It is recommended for the first few weeks of a semester, since it covers fundamental sentence grammar and basic email communication etiquette. Academic language skills you will practice include reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary, grammar, and rhetorical analysis.
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Instructor Guide: Tarea Libre-First-Year Spanish
Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee, Sarah Harmon & Nancy Meléndez-Ballesteros · OERI
This is an instructor guide to Tarea Libre - 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.
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2.7: Cohesion and Transition Words
Gabriel Winer and Elizabeth Wadell · Berkeley City College and Laney College
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Introduction to Arabic II
Hanaa Alkassas · ASCCC
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