Open Digital Educational Resource for Teaching Spanish to Deaf University Students

Abstract

This paper shows a research that contributes to the reading and writing processes in Spanish as a second language (L2) of deaf students at a Colombian university with the support of digital tools. Method: A collaborative action-research perspective was chosen aimed at promoting collective construction and reflection among deaf and hearing students, teachers, and researchers. Participated four deaf students from various undergraduate programs at said university and a team, all of them aided by a deaf teacher. The results are: The making of an open digital educational resource (ODER), the creation of a test to assess the A1 level of Spanish as an L2 of those students. Conclusions: 1) the heterogeneity of the participants allowed for recognition of diverse cultural form for inclusion, and in digital creation processes, a harmonious relationship between technology and humanities’ classical methods/knowledge must be established. In the future, a pilot trial of the ODER and the test with a larger group of deaf students will be needed.