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DIVERSITY IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: RAISING AWARENESS

Access to education should be universal in all cases; however, bureaucracy and policy conventions sometimes divert unconsciously from this objective. Although educational institutions have been rowing in the right direction in the last decade, still a lot remains to be done to make education accessible to everyone.

Accessibility to education in most cases goes hand in hand with new technologies and the concept of e-learning accessibility (Phipps & Kelly, 2006), since information and computer technologies (ICT) are present in all levels of the educational sphere. To achieve this, the European Union and governments worldwide have advanced in the publication of directives and requirements that advocate for equal access to education technology, for example access to websites and applications for the public sector. This means that education can be adapted to students’ needs according to their functionality (Batanero, et al., 2014).

The current issue includes contributions that delve into the educational sector with practices and pedagogical accommodations to students’ needs. The issue, structured in two differentiating sections includes four full articles in the main section and two book reviews.