EduPort, 2022 (vol. 6), issue 1
Review articles
The Predicators of Students´ Willingness to Communicate in Foreign Languages: State-of-the-Art Review
Jaroslava Jelínková
EduPort 2022, 6(1):1-16 | DOI: 10.21062/edp.2022.004 
The concept of willingness to communicate in a foreign language classroom describes the readiness to enter foreign language communication at a particular time with a specific person or persons using a foreign language influenced by situation-specific circumstances and individual variables. This state-of-the-art review deals with outcomes of eleven selected studies in the period 1999-2018 based on a computerized database search in the Web of Science database. The selected studies focus on the relationship between willingness to communicate and (a) context and (b) individual variables like foreign language anxiety and motivation. The review...
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT
LI Lin, Potměšil Miloň
EduPort 2022, 6(1):17-26 | DOI: 10.21062/edp.2022.002
Understanding the current research status and trend of inclusive education for students with hearing impairment can provide a reference for improving the development of inclusive education for students with hearing impairment. 85 articles were searched from EBSCO Discovery Service and four representative journals. After screening, 39 target articles were analyzed from three aspects, namely research trend, type of research and participant, research content. Result shows that the number of relevant articles is insufficient, and the distribution of relevant articles is obviously unbalanced; Mixed research is insufficient, and the continuity of focusing...
DYING PUPIL WITH LIFE-LIMITING OR LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS IN THE CONTEXT OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Martina Haroková, Jan Chrastina
EduPort 2022, 6(1):27-37 | DOI: 10.21062/edp.2022.003
The synergistic effect of factors such as inclusion, advances in science, medicine and technology are contributing significantly to the increasing number of pupils with life-limiting and life-threatening illnesses in primary and secondary schools. The 2020 UK population study estimates a further increase in this group of pupils in the future. Educating pupils with life-limiting or life-threatening illnesses brings with it certain specificities and challenges. The most feared challenge is the death of such a pupil during the school year. Many teachers have first-hand experience with the dying as well as the death of a pupil due to a serious illness....
LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE MOTIVATION IN SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS
Pavel Doulík, Jiří Škoda, Petra Šedivá
EduPort 2022, 6(1):38-53 | DOI: 10.21062/edp.2022.005
The paper entitled The Level of Achievement Motivation in Students of Special Pedagogy as the title implies deals with achievement motivation. The theoretical part is focused on several main topics among which we include motivation, motivation theories and achievement motivation. The research consists of quantitative research of achievement motivation in students of special pedagogy (N = 94) using standardized questionnaire of achievement motivation (LMI). The aim of this paper is to determine the overall level of achievement motivation in university students of that specific field. Subsequently our aim is to find out what results these students achieve...