Desenho Universal para a Aprendizagem: análise de materiais didáticos digitais para o ensino de língua inglesa

Abstract

Considering the changes in educational reality due to the pandemic and remote learning specificities, the main goal of this research is establishing, based on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, the relationship between producing and using digital teaching materials and students’ motivation for learning in an online English course. Specific goals are: (1) to describe students’ feedback on the teaching materials they interacted with during the online English course, (2) to identify the potential of accessibility of the digital teaching materials developed for the classes based on the UDL principles, and (3) to suggest strategies for using and applying the UDL principles in the creation and use of digital teaching materials. Our theoretical framework was selected based on its possible relation to UDL, considering the viability of minimizing learning barriers both in the remote and in the face-to-face contexts. So as to identify the potentiality of this proposal, the criteria used to analyze the digital teaching materials were adapted from UDL's orientations related to the engagement, representation, and action and expression principles. As a result of this analysis, it was possible to relate students' feedback to motivation, level of knowledge of the target language, and the effects of the digital teaching materials on the learning process. Besides that, it was possible to identify the applicability of the criteria in the teaching materials as well in the synchronous classes and to suggest pedagogical strategies to apply the criteria that were less applied.