Language Resources
The South Asia Institute works closely with instructional faculty for South Asian languages taught at the University of Texas. Like all teachers of Less Commonly Taught Languages, these instructors have produced classroom materials, curricular plans, lesson plans, and other resources to facilitate teaching and learning Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Tamil, Sanskrit, and Bangla. The Hindi-Urdu Flagship project set a new standard for the kinds of resources available for South Asia languages. Building on their success, and in collaboration with the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL), we are working to share resources used at UT for other South Asian languages as open educational resources (OER).
* Denotes resources that were not developed in collaboration with COERLL
Strategies for Teaching LCTLs Virtually
- Going Paperless: A User's Perspective (recording with demonstration) *
- Going Paperless: A User’s Perspective (instructions only) *
- Hindu-Urdu Flagship Resources *
- Hindi Vocabulary Old and New Part One (Bharatendu Harishchandra)
- Hindi Vocabulary Old and New Part Two (Devakinandan Khatri)
- Hindi Vocabulary Old and New Part Three (Hariprasad Dwivedi)
- Hindi Vocabulary Old and New Part Four (Neelesh Mishra)
- A Study Guide to Ōmanattiṅkaḷ Kiṭāvō by Irayimman Tambi (1782-1856)
- Rodney F. Moag, Malayalam: A University Course and Reference Grammar *
- Associated Audio Files for Moag’s Malayalam *
- Change the Settings! Building Computer-related Vocabulary Lesson Plan
- Conversation at the Bus Stop Lesson Plan
- Malayalam Pronunciation: Beyond the Basics (Google Slides format, with embedded audio)
- Bālakrīḍā of Viśvarūpa (searchable edition in Google Doc format)
- Mitākṣarā of Vijñāneśvara (searchable edition in Google Doc format), also available as RTF
- Index of Citations in the Mitākṣarā of Vijñāneśvara
- Index of Citations in the Smṛticandrikā of Devaṇṇabhaṭṭa
- Sanskrit Retranslation Lesson Plan
- Sanskrit in the Everyday Collaborative Blog Lesson Plan
