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From http://blog.coerll.utexas.edu/the-spanish-language-and-its-cultures-in-perspective/

 

From our sister LRC, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, here's a review of a new open resource for Spanish teachers and learners:

 

"This virtual space offers free access to nine original lessons that are oriented towards the teaching and enrichment of intermediate-level students of Spanish. Each lesson consists of readings that are written in Spanish and short, communicative activities. In its totality, these materials or open-access educational resources call upon critical thinking through eight themes closely tied to the Spanish-speaking world.

 

"...Spanish co-exists with other native languages in three continents (America, Africa and Europe). Whether officially accounted for or not, the many different voices and sociolinguistic histories of Spanish reverberate and move audaciously across the vast geography of the Americas. In The Spanish Language and its Cultures in Perspective we cover such diverse themes as:

 

• The history, varieties and current profile of Spanish in the United States

• The Spanish-language press in the United States

• Youth’s courageous resistance to entrenched dictatorial regimes in 20th-century Latin America

• The encounter of Catholicism and other religious traditions in Latin America

• The overwhelming force of globalization in the Latin American regions

• The mass media as vehicles of power and resistance

• The long history of Latinx in the United States

• The contrapuntal relationship of country and city in the modern context

 

"All of the lessons of The Spanish Language and its Cultures in Perspective have been successfully tested in two courses of intermediate Spanish (Spanish in Context I and Spanish in Context II) that are taught at George Mason University’s main campus in Fairfax, Virginia."

 

Read the full description at http://blog.coerll.utexas.edu/the-spanish-language-and-its-cultures-in-perspective/

Access the lessons at https://espanolabierto.org/espanol-y-cultura-en-perspectiva/