Universal Design in Materials Development

Abstract

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.