The digital textbook “Linguistics in Spanish Language Teaching” is aimed at (prospective) teachers of Spanish and demonstrates how linguistic expertise can substantively inform and enrich foreign language instruction. Across seven thematic chapters, it addresses error linguistics, pronunciation, orthography, lexical creativity, language variation and pluricentricity, language change, and the treatment of heritage languages in the classroom. A particular focus lies on the linguistic variation of Spanish: the chapters on pronunciation variation, forms of address, tense usage, and morphosyntax deliberately go beyond the usual restriction to vocabulary and pronunciation, systematically integrating grammatical variation phenomena into teaching practice. Audio examples from the research projects CO.RA.PAN, MAR.ELE, and Pronunciation Matters are directly embedded in the text. The textbook was developed collaboratively with students at Philipps University Marburg, is published as an openly accessible Open Educational Resource (OER) under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, and thus brings together research, university teaching, and teacher education.
Version 1.0. Digital textbook, available online at https://linguistik.hispanistica.com. The work is based on the open-source framework MkDocs using the Zensical theme and integrates multimedia content (audio examples, interactive maps). Additional chapters and updates are planned.
