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Universal Design in Materials Development

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The teaching of English as an additional language has a long history of creating instructional materials that document major technological innovations: from the plume, to the pencil, to Guttenberg’s printing press, to audio, to video, to the Internet, to mobile and cloud computing. As it accommodates new technologies, it offers newer ways of teaching and learning, from the grammar translation method, to audio-lingual methods, to communicative and community-centered approaches, and from teacher-centered practices to learner- and learning-centered activities.

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Savova, L. (2016). Universal Design in Materials Development. In: Azarnoosh, M., Zeraatpishe, M., Faravani, A., Kargozari, H.R. (eds) Issues in Materials Development. Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (PELT). SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-432-9_15

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