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The book was divided into ten chapters and in order to get to a particular chapter students will need to scroll all the way to the assigned lesson. In previous books I have used, I was able to enter the number of the page I was looking in a search bar, however, I was unable to do that with this book. It was a little bit difficult to have to scroll all the way to a specific page I was looking for but it was also ok as the book is free.
I found the chapter in the book very well organized and that it included learning objectives in each topic of the book. The book themes had an easy flow. The interface included web links about different topics and QR codes.
Some of these QR codes had enough activities to practice descriptions of famous people who are commonly known by our students which at the same time makes students interested and engaged. One of the errors I was able to detect in the book was that in the table of contents some of the topics are in English and some in Spanish. I found the cultural readings at the beginning of each chapter short but up to date. When updating the book, a suggestion would be to add some reflective pre- and post writing activities comparing Latin America and the U.
When reviewing the Libro Libre book I found more pros than cons. El Libro Libre is a great option for an elementary OER beginner course and a great alternative for students who are not able to afford the purchase of a textbook which can be costly. When updating the book, a suggestion would be to add activities for listening, and reading more short passages about cultural topics with pre- and post writing activities.
I appreciate the time and effort put by the author in writing the Libro Libre book and I really hope I can use it in the near future.
This textbook is comprehensive in its treatment of the standard vocabulary and grammar as is expected from a high quality first year college textbook. The entire gamut of vocabulary and grammar is sequentially and thematically organized and The entire gamut of vocabulary and grammar is sequentially and thematically organized and presented in a to-the-point style in manageable chunks, all contained within the 10 chapters that make up this page long textbook.
The table of contents is detailed; it runs from page 3 to page 5 and lists the standard vocabulary themes and grammar topics found in any US college level first year Spanish textbook published by mainstream for-profit publishers of academic textbooks. There is a balance of all the four skills, but instructors will find it easy to choose and emphasize activities and skills the as per their teaching style and learner needs.
Audio and video ancillary materials are available on YouTube and are hyperlinked in the text. The cultural readings accompanying each unit afford reading practice as well as cultural information on a diversity of topics without overwhelming the beginning level learner of Spanish.
There is more than enough material for instructors to gainfully cover a two or three semester long foreign language basic course sequence. A cursory scan of the content indicates that the material is accurate, error-free and unbiased. I did not check for typos, which, if any, can be corrected due to the editable nature of the medium. On the whole it appears to be expertly written. This is a recent and current text, which is generally somewhat of a rarity in open source collections as they generally contain older texts, especially in disciplines like foreign languages.
This particular text dates from The text is written in lucid and accessible language. There is no jargon that will impede learner comprehension. The text is internally consistent in terms of terminology and framework. Standard metalanguage and terminology are used throughout to present language and grammar concepts. The terminology used is also consistent with the professional standards in the field. It would be nice though if all the cultural readings had a title in the table of contents.
There is substantial modularity in the sense that each unit and each section within each unit can function as a distinct and separate module with independent learning objects, though when it comes to language learning, it serves to remember that everything builds on something else and that what came before applies to what is on hand.
The organization is methodical. Topics are presented in a logical, clear fashion and progress from easy to more challenging. However, there are many ways of arranging material in foreign language study -- no one method of sequencing is necessarily perfect and no one pre-set sequence is necessarily the best! There are no significant interface issues, no navigation problems.
The external audio and video links work smoothly. There are abundant images, which load properly. The page design is uncluttered and neat. The font size is comfortable and does not cause strain while reading. I did not spot any grammatical errors in my perusal. This is a language textbook and upholds the expected standards. No examples of culturally insensitive treatment were found. The images inside the text represent a variety of races, ethnicities and backgrounds.
The cultural readings are not centered on any one region but span across the wider Spanish speaking world. This book affords the convenience of a textbook and workbook rolled into one.
The audio for the vocabulary for the chapters is on YouTube and is accessible with just a click. The curriculum is identical to the material contained in books published by the large academic publishing houses but the treatment is less dense which can be a big plus as it cuts away the clutter.
However, instructors would have to figure out for themselves how to assess student learning since publisher provided ancillaries like test banks or online quizzes are not there. This text covers a variey of appropriate themes and topics: grammar, vocabulary, and culture. I would have liked to see specifics when it came to the cultural section of each chapter.
In the first chapter of the index, for example, it reads In the first chapter of the index, for example, it reads "Lectura cultural: La Patagonia", specifying what the cultural topic will be.
Chapter 2 is also specific. But for the other chapters, there is no detail telling what the cultural content is. Chapter 5, for example, simply reads"Lectura cultural: ", and only after going to page can you see that the cultural reading selection is about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. It is hard to put together a Spanish text without favoring a particular region. With 21 countries encompassing what it is to be "Latin American" it is easy to focus one a particular dialect or culture.
While this text includes examples from many different cultures, and points out what may be different from region to region, it does not appear to have a bias toward any. The examples and exerises are written in a way that is general enough to last over time.
Since a lot of the cultrual aspects tend to be historical, many wouldn't have to be changed to keep the book feeling "modern". The explanation of concepts is very well done. Clear, consise, it reads as a teacher speaking interactively with students as opposed to a dry lecture. For the most part I found it engaging and easy to follow. It is very well laid out and establishes a flow very early on. The student would know what to expect with each chapter.
Both teacher and students would be able to get into a rhythm early on in the semester. There perhaps would be a need to fill in some content when using the text over two semesters, but that would give a lot of time to practice and build a solid foundation.
They go well together and are used logically to expand communication abilities. I appreciated that while it was pleasantly illustrated, the pictures and captions were not distracting within the text. The hyper links were easy to open and very useful in providing examples of material. I would have liked to see some more aspects of culture as Latin American culture varies so greatly region to region and incorporates so much of European, African and Indigenous cultures.
I especially appreciated the goals and self reflection of the text. I have found that many times students do not pause to reflect on what is going well and what needs improvement until it is too late in the class.
Setting a couple of goals at the beginning of each chapter and reflecting on the progress made when the chapter is over seems like a very effective way to not only help students track their progress more effectively, but also to help them self-evaluate and possibly self-advocate if needed.. The book covers all the basic grammar content of beginner Spanish with enough grammar activities and exercises to support student learning.
It also has excellent Audio and Video activities, although the teacher probably needs to incorporate other It also has excellent Audio and Video activities, although the teacher probably needs to incorporate other free resources available online to support the content, as well as cultural readings and videos. The explanation of the grammar is simple, avoid very rigid boxes and examples and use some very useful mnemonic devices.
I also appreciate that it regularly incorporates cognates, suffix and prefix exercises all of this increases students' language awareness and expands their vocabulary. The cultural information and the grammar seems accurate and effective. I have not detected any big errors in my review, although I detected some typographical errors.
I don't think the text obsolete within a short period of time. The necessary updates will be relatively easy and straightforward to implement, mainly if the emphasis of these updates can be put on the audio and video links on youtube. I think this is one of the book's greatest successes: its clarity. The grammar explanations are clear, using English and mnemonic methods that the students will appreciate very much. The activity directions are also consistently clear.
The book has a student center focus - if this is possible. I mean, it addresses the student in simple language, almost like in a casual but very effective way. It seems as if the author has passed the same struggles with the language as the one who is studying at the time. The book is organized, well structured and coherent with the organization it proposes, chapter after chapter.
I like the design of the book, some pictures chosen to illustrate the topics are fun and fresh. The book can be segmented into chapters without losing coherence. Each chapter is autonomous, although interdependent on the previous one due to the logical sequence of learning. The interface is basic and easy to navigate it. Audio recordings and videos provide good resources to present and use the vocabulary. I wish it had hyperlinks to navigate the book more efficiently.
Grammatical explanations, for example, could be linked directly to exercises online or exercises from the book itself. For example, when reviewing the verb estar in present progressive tense, there should be a link that refers the student directly to the grammatical explanation of estar that appears on previous pages.
The text is not culturally insensitive or offensive in any way. I like the use of to refer to the feminine and masculine of nouns and adjectives. I would have appreciated the use of songs or poems, and activities related to them. Also, the cultural readings could have more exercises of comprehension, research and production linked to them. Overall, it is an excellent book. While the textbook offers brief cultural readings with each of the ten chapters, the professor While the textbook offers brief cultural readings with each of the ten chapters, the professor will inevitably need to seek out additional cultural materials along with appropriate listening and reading activities.
However, for what the textbook intends to do -- present basic grammar -- it does fairly well. The grammar is typically presented in an informal, catchy way, with a keen eye to common student mistakes.
Textbook activities naturally center on grammar, with many mechanical and guided ones in addition to some that intend to be more communicative. As a grammar resource, the textbook does a good job at presenting the material.
Vocabulary is, at times, presented in context, which is great, yet there seems to be little overall cohesion throughout the chapters. That is, there could be much stronger ties between the cultural reading, the themed vocabulary, the grammar examples, and activities for students. Libro Libre presents the grammar and other materials in a methodical manner. The accuracy of the information presented, especially relating to grammar, seems accurate and effective. Besides updating some of the student activities periodically, the content does not seem like it will date too quickly.
One point to mention here, however, is that there is no online workbook with auto-grading. This is actually one of the first points made in the Foreword section by the author. Online workbooks have been a huge time-saver for both professors and students in my experience, though different pedagogical approaches will dictate just how important they are to a given class. The writing and explanations, including activity directions, are consistently clear.
The textbook will be accessible to beginners of Spanish, given that English and Spanish are used appropriately to convey meaning. As remarked above, stronger overall chapter contexts would likely improve the overall flow and naturalness as certain material could be presented more organically in context. Each chapter is consistent, with a short cultural reading, followed by a goal-setting section before proceeding to grammar and vocabulary exercises. Likewise, each chapter concludes with a reflection on the short- and long-term goals set by each student at the chapter's start.
This technique is wonderful to see included, as constant reflection and assessment of strengths and weaknesses is important at these levels.
It is also important to note that the textbook maintains an explicitly positive and encouraging attitude towards language learning. It would not be difficult to segment learning in a different order than the one proposed by the textbook. Each grammar module could be worked on independently of the broader chapter and vocabulary contexts if so desired. There is a clear and orderly method of presenting the grammar, one that corresponds to traditional ways of doing so. The only particular quirk of this textbook in that sense is the final chapter, which covers present perfect, subjunctive, commands, the future and the conditional.
This information overload would be best managed differently, perhaps by working some of the material into earlier chapters or simply presenting the concepts only, as I assume it is a taste of what is to come at the intermediate levels. One chapter is surely not enough to effectively cover all of these points. It would also be good to have the chapter vocabulary arranged in sections at the end of the chapter. As is, the many words are listed alphabetically, which may not be most useful if a student is trying to look up a specific word by category food, clothing, classroom item, etc.
The interface is clean and basic. Audio recordings provide good models for newly presented vocabulary and videos both link to YouTube present great examples of classroom activities. The videos, however, are not meant for listening activities comprehension , as there are Spanish subtitles provided. These added materials are a definite plus, though easier topic navigation bookmarks built in to the textbook may smooth things out.
There are a handful of typos, though nothing that interferes with communication or understanding. The textbook makes a notable effort to be inclusive, with most of the vocabulary words presented with the gender neutral symbol. Likewise, trans-gender and non-binary pronouns are also explicitly discussed, given the gendered nature of the language.
As other reviewers have mentioned, many of our students have family ties to U. Latinx communities, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and many other places that are under-represented or not at all in the textbook. Libro Libre serves well as a grammar textbook and contains many useful and relevant activities to practice this grammar, moving from mechanical to guided to open-ended, generally speaking. However, it is imperative to keep in mind that cultural information, reading exercises, and appropriate listening activities will need to be sourced elsewhere.
This textbook seems to be consistent chapter after chapter on what it has to offer: a cultural section at the beginning of the chapter, a list of objectives, introduction to vocabulary, grammar, etc. However, I would like to have an index on the However, I would like to have an index on the screen so that I know how to jump to material that I need to find fast.
It lacks a true index. The vocabulary list appears twice on each chapter: first, when it is most needed to accomplish a task, and it comes with links to audio YouTube to listen to their pronunciation; and second at the end of the chapter, but without a link to audio. The grammar section is in most need of an index.
Even expensive language textbooks are often inaccurate and different people will find that there are different ways to present material. Although there are things in this textbook that I would explain differently, at the same time I learned a lot seeing that the textbook provides other perspectives that I have not found in publisher-made textbooks in my over twenty-six years of teaching. I did not see much inaccuracy from the first four chapters of this textbook that I reviewed.
Maybe I would not have explained things the same way, but they still made sense on the way they are explained by the author. There is a calendar picture of the year This is the second edition of the textbook, from This should have been an easy update to fix. The text is easy to understand, and written by someone who seems to have gone through similar challenges learning the language. This could present a challenge when editing it in future years for accuracy though, if some text had to be changed to match any future picture changes.
This is perhaps the best part of this textbook. I like its organization and how it makes the student get ready for what they are going to cover, and then reflect on what they learned and what their goals are. It does this chapter after chapter, teaching the student a good habit to use to learn.
I do not see a lack of organization on this textbook. However, in ten chapters I see that there is lots of material that depending on the school could be covered in one semester, two semesters, or more.
The last chapter of the textbook though seems to present new grammar that is not realistic to learn in one chapter and should be material for a future textbook or level of Spanish i. Maybe there should be two chapters added to this textbook. It does not seem to overwhelm the reader with grammar but it shows enough material so that students can begin working together with the language. I see that I could choose fragments of the textbook and reference them at a later chapter, to review something that can help connect it to what is covered elsewhere in the chapter.
However, I see that this would be something that I have to do manually, ahead of time, and especially once I am very acquainted with the pages on the textbook. This textbook is organized in a very classical way of teaching Spanish first year, and it is usually the way that I prefer it. There are some publisher-made textbooks that are trying to prove that there is not a set order to teach a language, and although this is true, I prefer the order that I have been using for more than two decades.
Once I was on that page, I saw that the expressions where there but that I had to go to the vocabulary list at the end of the chapter on page to find out the meaning of those expressions. I think that every time that new vocabulary is introduced there should be some kind of mention on where to find their meaning i. Maybe some kind of hyperlinks from page to page?
Generally, there are no many grammatical or spelling errors, but yes, there are some, occasionally. Although I am aware that I gave a critical review of the textbook probably from a perspective of a publisher-made heavy textbook user, I see that the textbook has many good things to offer, and I see that is innovative to me in the way some activities appear.
I imagine that the author has either taught at high school level before or got some ideas for the activities from other instructors who did.
I like how some of the mechanics in the activities are explained to the student. This activity is extremely participatory. An OER textbook has a great opportunity to become a better textbook because it can be more flexible in the way material can be improved, changed, added, removed, etc. Publishers are challenged at this as they depend on what their original authors want to do, and they are already happy with what they have since they are selling it anyway and making money without getting up.
On the other hand the altruistic nature of OER hopefully will give current and future authors the tools to improve or at least adapt original OER textbooks, with proper attribution, for future generations. These are words that are challenging to learn in almost any language since they are used constantly and often incorrectly for learners of a new language.
That is, they worked for it, and it has become useful for them. Covers standard grammar topics seen in other beginner textbooks. Table of Contents clearly shows where to find each topic, although the order of introduction is sometimes unusual e. It also seems that the order of It also seems that the order of presentation could occasionally hinder natural conversation practice e. In terms of glossaries, the end-of-chapter vocabulary lists don't seem especially effective, with random words alphabetized in Spanish rather than chunking them by topic , and there is no comprehensive glossary at the end of the book.
General content seemed mostly accurate, with a few scattered errors such as Actividad 12 p. Content of cultural pieces and the random sampling of YouTube links I accessed seemed relevant and up-to-date, with very few items that will become quickly obsolete.
However, the current relevance of the actual exercises is questionable, and could be improved by replacing some of the fill-in-the-blank activities which seemed to be in the majority with more communicative prompts and activities to focus on in-class oral proficiency.
Although I liked many of the exercises, this general approach seems outdated to me. Grammar explanations are fairly clear although several of them could be more concise but I found the overall contextual clarity of the book to be lacking. Is the goal to ask students to gist general ideas from any cognates they can figure out? New vocabulary introductions also lack clarity: Chapter vocab is first introduced with no English equivalences, NO instructions, and limited pictures e.
However, I saw a frustrating amount of exercises that were not consistently scaffolded on previously presented material, centering on not-yet-learned terminology and structures. The text would be easy to divide into sections that could be assigned at different points in the course. The order of presentation often seemed illogical and would be confusing and exasperating to novice students, especially if they are trying to study at home without the instructor present to guide them and explain not-yet-learned terminology and structures.
A few examples: 1 unfamiliar structures: using the preterit to ask questions p. The text seems free of significant interface issues. Wish list: a clickable Table of Contents; the greenish-beige background and the font could be changed to improve legibility. Beyond adjusting these chapter-opener culture readings to a more novice level, enabling students to absorb the information, it would also be helpful to have relevant pre- and post-reading activities, discussion or writing topics, or some way to tie the cultural concepts presented into the rest of the chapter.
Seeing this book was an interesting start, though, and it will be exciting to see where the journey of OERs for foreign language might lead us in the future. Heartfelt thanks go out to the author, editor, and team who clearly worked very hard on this book; your pioneering efforts are much appreciated! I felt that the book actually covers MORE than what we usually cover in the first two semesters of our Spanish sequence. I didn't see a lot of culture that was "super trendy"--shouldn't become obsolete very soon.
Very good. I'm not sure exactly what this question is referring to, but I didn't have any problems with "terminology and framework. Yes, I felt that the chapters were adequately broken up into sections that are accessible and could be assigned in different sequences, depending on what an instructor wishes to emphasize first. The text is very well organized. It flows well.
It has writing activities and interactive-speaking activities that were done in a creative way. Actually, the text could have had more speaking activities. But I like how each chapter a opens with something cultural and b the readings are in the target language. I really liked the book overall, and I'd seriously consider using it. But the one major weakness is that it apparently doesn't have online, interactive activities for students.
Especially for professors who teach online classes, this might be a difficult book to use. The graphics and presentation are very nice--better than the book I'm using now, actually. Books have come a long way since I started teaching, when everything was in black and white! The text did a good job of integrating grammar with reading and writing activities. The embedded videos probably could use some improvement. Libro Libre covers the essential topics and grammar typical for a beginning Spanish class.
It also includes activities that can be filled out in the textbook, so there is no need for an exercise book. Minor spelling errors and inconsistencies.
The instructions and explanations are clear. The grammatical material is introduced in a simple way, and followed by numerous activities. Inconsistent listing of topics in Table of Contents - some are in Spanish, some in English.
The textbook is divided in chapters and sections. It is easy to use for both students and instructors. Some of the important grammar sections are missing. The sections on direct and indirect object pronouns should be followed by a separate section on double object pronouns. Also, the preterite tense should be introduced before the imperfect, not vice versa.
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