1: Chapter 1 Reading Skills
1.1: Use Pre-reading Strategies
1.2: Annotate and Take Notes
1.3: The Reading-Writing Connection
1.4: Critical Reading and Rhetorical Context
1.5: Reading Strategies - Previewing
1.5.1: 3.4 Annotation Basics
1.6: Questioning Strategies
1.7: Inferences
1.8: Vocabulary
1.9: Reading Strategies - Taking Notes
1.10: Main Ideas and Supporting Details
1.11: Paraphrazing and Summarizing
1.12: How to Read Like a Writer
1.13: Key Takeaways
2: Chapter 2 Writing Process
2.1: Apply Prewriting Models
2.1.1: Outlining
2.1.2: Outlining
2.1.3: Drafting
2.2: The Writing Process - How Do I Begin? (Exercises)
2.3: The Reading-Writing Process
2.4: Steps in the Reading-Writing Process
2.5: The College Essay Assignment- Analysis, Rubrics, and Critical Thinking
2.6: Argument
2.7: Purpose, Tone, Audience, Content in an Assignment
2.8: Prewriting Strategies
2.9: Outlining
2.10: Key Takeaways
2.11: Revising and Editing
2.12: Chapter 4 Revising
2.12.1: Revising and Editing
3: Chapter 3 Essay Essentials
3.1: Writing a Thesis
3.2: Working Thesis
3.3: Elements of a thesis
3.4: Where is the thesis?
3.5: Tips for writing a thesis statement
3.6: Resources
4: Chapter 4 Writing Basics
4.1: Moving Beyond the Five-paragraph Theme
4.1.1: The Three-story Thesis- From the Ground Up
4.2: The Three-story Thesis- From the Ground Up
4.3: Three-story Theses and the Organically Structured Argument
4.4: Exercises
4.5: Verb tense
4.6: Passive and active voice
4.7: Run-ons, fragments, comma splices
5: Sentence Clarity
5.1: Chapter 5 Sentence Clarity
5.1.1: Sentence Variety
5.1.2: Coordination and Subordination
5.1.3: Parallelism
5.1.4: Writing Introductions
5.1.5: Writing Conclusions
5.1.6: Writing Summaries
5.1.7: Paraphrasing
5.1.8: Quoting

A unique perspective on the confluence of the three basic conceptual frameworks in human experience. Contains several studies, with data, of remarkable world views of disparate cultures based on their specific cultures language. The premise is that how people experience the world, then think about it, then create a language around it, alters their perception of the world in very fundamental ways. The radical notion is that thought and language, creates the circumstances of, and contribute to significantly different realities for different peoples.

The internalization and realization of this concept is significant and can possibly radically alter and change how different cultures assess their ability to, at the most basic levels, understand other cultures realities.

Student-driven OER with Curations, Modules, Teletandem and Collaborative Social Media

Short Description:
This e-textbook is a proficiency framed, communicative and task-based e-textbook for Intermediate French II.

Long Description:
Built over six years by a team of VCU faculty and students, this French textbook is intentionally communicative in design. It targets French language learning that is moving from the novice high to the intermediate low/mid range of proficiency (NCSSFL-ACTFL) or from the A2 to the B1-B2 CEFR level. Given that this level of language acquisition involves mainly sentence level communications dealing with routine, everyday situations, the four units in this etextbook review and deepen skills and strategies across the three modes of communication, interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational as well as deepening intercultural competencies. The units progress through: presenting oneself and deepening one’s notions of bilingual, intersectional identity; engaging in written, oral, and mediated dialogues and exchanges on topics of personal interest; deepening knowledge of the perspectives, products and practices of one or more francophone cultures and comparing them to the home culture; and, finally, mapping one’s linguistic and cultural competencies onto the individual student’s future professional and personal vision of a potential future.

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Level: (B1.2-B2.1) ( Advance Low-Advance High)

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Learn Basic Kazakh is designed for either heritage or non-heritage the students living in Kazakhstan. The books aims students to learn Academic Kazakh in advance level.

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Storytime in Spanish

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La hora del cuento en español is a collection of children’s stories in Spanish authored by Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) students and edited by KPU Faculty Constanza Rojas-Primus and KPU alumna Sofía Rodríguez. The first part of this collection is a selection of stories written by KPU Spanish 1100 students between Fall 2017 and Spring 2019. The second part of this collection is a selection of stories written by KPU Spanish 1101 students between Fall 2020 and Spring 2022. All stories are narrated by Constanza Rojas-Primus and have been translated into English by Sofía Rodríguez. The illustrations in the cover and first part of this collection are artwork of KPU student Cheyenne Pokeda.

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La hora del cuento en español is a collection of children’s stories in Spanish authored by Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) students and edited by KPU Faculty Constanza Rojas-Primus and KPU alumna Sofía Rodríguez. The first part of this collection is a selection of stories written by KPU Spanish 1100 students between Fall 2017 and Spring 2019 as a result of a collaboration between KPU Spanish and Guildford Public Library Language Literacy Program “Storytime in Spanish”. The second part of this collection is a selection of stories written by KPU Spanish 1101 students between Fall 2020 and Spring 2022 as a result of an interuniversity collaboration in support of UNESCO´s Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030. All stories are narrated by Constanza Rojas-Primus and have been translated into English by Sofía Rodríguez. The illustrations in the cover and first part of this collection are artwork of KPU Fine Arts student Cheyenne Pokeda.

Word Count: 61444

ISBN: 978-1-989864-65-4

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NewPara 2022: La vida te da sorpresas... de momento ya no seguimos trabajando en este libro. Buscamos a alguien o a un equipo a quien pasar nuestra labor de amor. Compartiremos nuestro proceso e ideas para seguir adelante con este humilde proyecto. Póngase en contacto: https://ashwiniganeshan.wixsite.com/educator/contact NewPara2019: Este libro, todavía en desarrollo, se dirige a estudiantes de español en universidades estadounidenses y pretende ofrecer una breve y simple introducción a la lingüística hispánica. Incluye conceptos básicos de la lingüística, brinda ensayos que abarcan temas de interés social conectando la lingüística con la vida diaria, y ejercicios para practicar los conceptos. También hay enlaces a materiales relevantes disponibles en la red. El libro está creado enteramente por textos escritos y materiales compartidos por estudiantes mayoritariamente de pregrado y también cuenta con el trabajo y esfuerzo de estudiantes-editoras en un proyecto a largo plazo de pedagogía abierta.Descargue el libro en formato pdf, mobi, epub aquí: https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/opentextbooks/3/

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2022: La vida te da sorpresas… de momento ya no seguimos trabajando en este libro. Buscamos a alguien o a un equipo a quien pasar nuestra labor de amor. Compartiremos nuestro proceso e ideas para seguir adelante con este humilde proyecto. Póngase en contacto: https://ashwiniganeshan.wixsite.com/educator/contact

2019: Este libro, todavía en desarrollo, se dirige a estudiantes de español en universidades estadounidenses y pretende ofrecer una breve y simple introducción a la lingüística hispánica. Incluye conceptos básicos de la lingüística, brinda ensayos que abarcan temas de interés social conectando la lingüística con la vida diaria, y ejercicios para practicar los conceptos. También hay enlaces a materiales relevantes disponibles en la red. El libro está creado enteramente por textos escritos y materiales compartidos por estudiantes mayoritariamente de pregrado y también cuenta con el trabajo y esfuerzo de estudiantes-editoras en un proyecto a largo plazo de pedagogía abierta.

Descargue el libro en formato pdf, mobi, epub aquí: https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/opentextbooks/3/

Word Count: 32540

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UCF, FRW 3100, Fall 2020

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Les étudiants du cours de Survol de la littérature française de l'ancien régime à UCF se sont retrouvés sur Zoom pendant quatre mois et demi et organisèrent une conférence virtuelle pendant laquelle les étudiants se sont organisés en panels par thème, et ont présenté les articles de recherche sur lesquels ils ont travaillé pendant le semestre. (Ce sont les actes de la conférence.)

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Pendant le semestre d’automne 2020, en pleine crise du Covid-19, les étudiants du cours de Survol de la littérature française de l’ancien régime à UCF se sont retrouvés sur Zoom pendant quatre mois et demi.

Pour rendre la collaboration hebdomadaire et l’expérience de l’apprentissage plus vivantes, nous avons décidé d’organiser une conférence virtuelle pendant laquelle les étudiants se sont organisés en panels par thème, et ont présenté les articles de recherche sur lesquels ils ont travaillé pendant le semestre.

Puis nous avons décidé de pousser l’expérience jusqu’au bout et de publier nos propres actes de la conférence.

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Short Description:
This user-friendly resource text will help educators gain professional knowledge about language teaching methodologies and best practices for learning an additional language in K-12 school settings.

Long Description:
This Open Educational Resource (OER) text is intended for both pre-service and practicing teachers who are interested in gaining professional knowledge about language teaching methodologies, strategies, and best practices in K-12 settings. The text may be used as an academic resource text for language education courses and academic programs, or as a self-study text for educators who want to become more informed about the process of learning an additional language at school.

The text is user-friendly and engaging, comprised of eight learning modules, a glossary, and a reference scale that identifies skill development in four areas: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Modules contain bright visuals and charts, as well as links to video clips and resource sites to help teachers extend their knowledge beyond the pages of this OER text.

Word Count: 25501

ISBN: 978-0-88880-707-6

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This online library exhibition celebrates the magnificent diversity of languages that advance research, teaching, and learning at the University of California, Berkeley. Taking place between February 2019 and October 2020, it was the point of embarkation for an exciting sequential exhibit that built on one post per week, showcasing an array of digitized works in the original language chosen by those who work with these languages on a daily basis — librarians, professors, lecturers, staff, and students.

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This online library exhibition celebrates the magnificent diversity of languages that advance research, teaching, and learning at the University of California, Berkeley. Taking place between February 2019 and October 2020, it was the point of embarkation for an exciting sequential exhibit that built on one post per week, showcasing an array of digitized works in the original language chosen by those who work with these languages on a daily basis — librarians, professors, lecturers, staff, and students. Since its founding in 1868, students and faculty at UC Berkeley have concerned themselves with a breathtaking range of languages. In support of teaching and research, the University Library, which collects and preserves materials in all languages, now boasts a collection of more than thirteen million volumes. It is among the largest academic libraries in the U.S. with more than one third of its print resources in more than 500 non-English languages.

Word Count: 64041

ISBN: 978-0-9997970-3-7

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Latin@ Stories Across Ohio is a bilingual oral history book that documents Latino life, from interviews collected from March 2014 to December 2014.

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Latin@ Stories Across Ohio is a bilingual oral history book that documents Latino life, from interviews collected from March 2014 to December 2014. It includes the stories of women and men, older and younger generations, artists, students, activists, educators, and everyday people in English and Spanish. It uses the traditional elements of oral history methodology along with maps, video, pictures, audio and text.

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An Activity Companion Site

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This Pressbook provides H5P learning activities to accompany materials in Le français interactif, open educational resource (OER). This companion site was created independently of the original French textbook and is not strictly based on it. Original content from instructors and students are incorporated throughout the Pressbook. It is geared towards beginner to intermediate French language learners, focusing mainly on levels A1 to A2 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages), depending on the learning activity. The goal of this site is to increase access to interactive and engaging French language learning resources.

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This Pressbook provides H5P learning activities to accompany materials in Le français interactif, open educational resource (OER). This companion site was created independently of the original French textbook and is not strictly based on it. Original content from instructors and students are incorporated throughout the Pressbook. It is geared towards beginner to intermediate French language learners, focusing mainly on levels A1 to A2 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages), depending on the learning activity. The goal of this site is to increase access to interactive and engaging French language learning resources.

Word Count: 14891

ISBN: 978-1-77420-213-5

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An Activity Companion Site

Short Description:
This Pressbook provides H5P learning activities to accompany materials in Le français interactif, open educational resource (OER). This companion site was created independently of the original French textbook and is not strictly based on it. Original content from instructors and students are incorporated throughout the Pressbook. It is geared towards beginner to intermediate French language learners, focusing mainly on levels A1 to A2 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages), depending on the learning activity. The goal of this site is to increase access to interactive and engaging French language learning resources.

Long Description:
This Pressbook provides H5P learning activities to accompany materials in Le français interactif, open educational resource (OER). This companion site was created independently of the original French textbook and is not strictly based on it. Original content from instructors and students are incorporated throughout the Pressbook. It is geared towards beginner to intermediate French language learners, focusing mainly on levels A1 to A2 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages), depending on the learning activity. The goal of this site is to increase access to interactive and engaging French language learning resources.

Word Count: 14498

ISBN: 978-1-77420-213-5

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This course explores how we use story to articulate ethical norms. The syllabus consists of short fiction, novels, plays, feature films and some non-fiction. Major topics include leadership and authority, professionalism, the nature of ethical standards, social enterprise, and questions of gender, cultural and individual identity, and work / life balance. Materials vary from year to year, but past readings have included work by Robert Bolt, Michael Frayn, Timothy Mo, Wole Soyinka, H. D. Thoreau, and others; films have included Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hotel Rwanda, The Descendants, Motorcycle Diaries, Three Kings, and others. Draws on various professions and national cultures, and is run as a series of moderated discussions, with students centrally engaged in the teaching process.

This class explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Milton and Ford. It compares period thinking to present-day debates about the scientific method, art, religion, and society. This team-taught, interdisciplinary subject draws on a wide range of literary, dramatic, historical, and scientific texts and images, and involves theatrical experimentation as well as reading, writing, researching and conversing.
The primary theme of the class is to explore how England in the mid-seventeenth century became "a world turned upside down" by the new ideas and upheavals in religion, politics, and philosophy, ideas that would shape our modern world. Paying special attention to the "theatricality" of the new models and perspectives afforded by scientific experimentation, the class will read plays by Shakespeare, Tate, Brecht, Ford, Churchill, and Kushner, as well as primary and secondary texts from a wide range of disciplines. Students will also compose and perform in scenes based on that material.

Student-driven OER with Curations, Modules, Virtual Exchanges, and Collaborative Social Media

Short Description:
This e-textbook is a proficiency framed, communicative and task-based e-textbook for Intermediate French.

Long Description:
Built over six years by a team of VCU faculty and students, this French textbook is intentionally communicative in design. It targets French language learning that is moving from the novice high to the intermediate low/mid range of proficiency (NCSSFL-ACTFL) or from the A2 to the B1-B2 CEFR level. Given that this level of language acquisition involves mainly sentence level communications dealing with routine, everyday situations, the four units in this etextbook review and deepen skills and strategies across the three modes of communication, interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational as well as deepening intercultural competencies. The units progress through: presenting oneself and deepening one’s notions of bilingual, intersectional identity; engaging in written, oral, and mediated dialogues and exchanges on topics of personal interest; deepening knowledge of the perspectives, products and practices of one or more francophone cultures and comparing them to the home culture; and, finally, mapping one’s linguistic and cultural competencies onto the individual student’s future professional and personal vision of a potential future.

Word Count: 29663

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A complete French curriculum that provides a bridge for students transitioning from intermediate to advanced proficiency.

Word Count: 69606

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Pratiques biographiques en formation, intervention et recherche

Short Description:
Les récits de vie sont bien connus en recherche. Ils permettent de construire une vision fine et subtile du monde vécu, de la société vue de l’intérieur. Mais ils sont utilisés dans bien d’autres milieux, notamment en formation professionnelle, dans des interventions visant la transformation sociale ou dans le champ de l’éducation. Les seize chapitres de cet ouvrage proposent d’explorer de tels usages des pratiques biographiques et autobiographiques dans des contextes variés. Les auteurs et les autrices, venant des deux côtés de l’Atlantique (Suisse, Pologne, France, Allemagne, Portugal, Cameroun, Gabon, Brésil et Canada), témoignent ainsi de la diversité et de la fécondité de ces pratiques. Cet ouvrage est le fruit d’un partenariat de trois années entre l’Université de Basse-Silésie (Pologne), l’Université de Tours (France) et l’Université Laval (Québec, Canada).

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Les récits de vie sont bien connus en recherche. Ils permettent de construire une vision fine et subtile du monde vécu, de la société vue de l’intérieur. Mais ils sont utilisés dans bien d’autres milieux, notamment en formation professionnelle, dans des interventions visant la transformation sociale ou dans le champ de l’éducation. Les seize chapitres de cet ouvrage proposent d’explorer de tels usages des pratiques biographiques et autobiographiques dans des contextes variés. Les auteurs et les autrices, venant des deux côtés de l’Atlantique (Suisse, Pologne, France, Allemagne, Portugal, Cameroun, Gabon, Brésil et Canada), témoignent ainsi de la diversité et de la fécondité de ces pratiques. Cet ouvrage est le fruit d’un partenariat de trois années entre l’Université de Basse-Silésie (Pologne), l’Université de Tours (France) et l’Université Laval (Québec, Canada).

Publications associées : Slowik, A., Rywalski, P. et de Souza E.C. (coord.) (2019). Approches (auto)biographiques et nouvelles épreuves de transitions. Construire du sens avec des parcours de vie. Paris : L’Harmattan. Slowik, A., Breton, H. et Pineau, G. (coord.) (2019). Récits de vie et approches biographiques. Histoire et vitalité d’un paradigme en sciences sociales. Paris : L’Harmattan.

Word Count: 97156

ISBN: 978-2-924661-90-1

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