A First-Semester Course
Elementary Portuguese
Author: Craig R. Stokes, Dutchess Community College
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Book Design
I designed this Open Educational Resource (OER) for the first semester of an Elementary Portuguese course. It follows another OER text, Bate-Papo, authored by Eduardo Viana da Silva. I encourage you to consult that textbook directly to see the creators of this content. I have enhanced the Bate-Papo textbook with mine and other materials.
The cover photo is Brazil, Rio, Landscape from Pixabay— Creative Commons by guertzen.
Bate-Papo
Bate-Papo contains eight units (“Unidades”), divided into parts A and B. For this first-semester textbook, I cloned the first four units. Although I have retained most of the material in these units, I have made modifications and deletions. I owe a debt of gratitude to the original authors and contributors.
Suplementos
After each part, I created a Suplemento. I have designed some original content in these sections, mainly through H5P exercises. Some grammar sections are Portuguese adaptations of Introductory Spanish I from Lumen Learning. Other grammar explanations are my own creations. Additionally, I have embedded several YouTube videos that enhance grammar topics.
Attributions
Unidades 1 A, 1 B, 2 A, 2 B, 3, A, 3 B, 4 A, and 4 B all are modified versions of those same Unidades in Bate-Papo. Author: Eduardo Viana da Silva. License: CC by Attribution.
I have listed attributions to the Suplemento sections where appropriate.
About the Author:
Craig R. Stokes is a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the English and Humanities Department at Dutchess Community College. He received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics with an emphasis on language contact and sociolinguistics at The State University of New York at Albany.
Acknowledgments:
Thanks go to Dutchess Community College’s OER Course Development Grant for funding for this project.
