Obviously, the teaching staff and their attitude towards students with special educational needs play an important role in promoting inclusion.
The processes of change in education cannot start with a negative attitude and resistance to it. By definition, relationships are an important part of our daily lives, since they have a great influence on our behavior, making certain actions are predictable. To accept ideas of inclusiveness, it is necessary to initially change the prevailing attitude towards students and people with disabilities in society, as well as to take differences and individual differences beyond mere respect or tolerance.
Teaching children with learning disabilities opens the doors of regular classrooms for the learners from different backgrounds.. This gives students with special needs the opportunity to learn on an equal basis with other students. They also need to learn English as they foreign language. However, teaching in an inclusive classroom is not easy. The number of problems that English teachers face during their teaching learning process. As teachers, they must be aware of their problems and find ways to overcome it, especially when working with students with special needs.
The purpose of this article is to identify the problems faced by the English teachers. It also gives some ideas on how to overcome the problems. This uses qualitative research. This article claims that English teachers some difficulties in teaching students with special needs. Thus, they need concern about identifying the problems they face and finding ways to solve them. [3]
There are eight principles of inclusive education:
– The value of a person does not depend on his abilities and achievements;
– Every person is capable of feeling and thinking;
– Everyone has the right to communicate and to be heard;
– All people need each other;
– Genuine education can only take place in the context of real relationships;
– All people need the support and friendship of their peers;
– For all learners, progress may be more in what they can do than in what they cannot;
– Diversity enhances all aspects of human life.
Teachers are the main characters who spends most of the time with the children. Their work includes conducting training sessions, holidays, excursions.