Students with low vision and students with physical disabilities learning English in the Bachelors in English Teaching and Modern Languages at the Foreign Language Department, during the year 2014, at the University of El Salvador and their inclusion in the English language learning process

摘要

The law of equal opportunities for people with disability of El Salvador Republic states that all people with disability have the right of being protected against discrimination, exploitation, degrading or abusing treatment because of their disability; they also state that people with disability have the right to be properly educated in order to facilitate the learning process as well as to prepare professional teachers to teach people with disabilities according to their needs. El Salvador (2002). Ley de Equiparación de Oportunidades para Personas con Discapacidad de El Salvador, 2000. El Salvador: Casa Presidencial. Based on University of El Salvador’s approval of a inclusion policy in 2013, which inherently provides guidelines for all schools and academic units to align academic efforts to honor such commitment, researchers have decided to work on the inclusion of students with low vision and students with physical disability in the learning of English at the Foreign Language Department in order to precisely find out the level of inclusion these students have in the English learning process, the researchers pursue to describe how the Department of Foreign Languages works to provide an appropriate education, accessibility in buildings, the adaption of didactic material, technological sources, and equal opportunities to learn a foreign language as their peers.