The key question 5 might provide a teacher with good advice on how to increase or diminish students’ motivation when studying English at the faculty, in this case at the Faculty of Informatics and Management of the University of Hradec Kralove in the Czech Republic. As indicated in the questionnaires, students appreciate a caring, communicative, concerned, encouraging, open-minded, supportive and understanding teacher or, perhaps, a mentor who is always willing to listen to each of them (see Fig. 1). Furthermore, they value the teacher who gives them feedback on their performance, attempts to help solve their problems or difficulties in developing L2 communication skills and in developing further students’ language skills with which they entered the class. In addition, s/he should find a regular and appropriate period for recycling the new material and its assessment.
Students also welcome a chance to be able to go to study abroad for some time and to choose from a wide range of optional subjects offered to them in English. But, on the other hand, they would make some of them compulsory. Moreover, they would leave out studying of unnecessary grammar units or extensive reading from textbooks. There are also a couple of statements which contradict each other, such as a critical tone of a teacher or a number of subjects in English. Nevertheless, generally, students are satisfied with studying of English at the faculty.