Browsing by Author "Johansson, Jessica"

In today´s society, it has become increasingly common that among pupils the motivation to learn the second native language has become worse. Pupils´ language skills in the second native language are getting worse. The threshold to dare to speak is getting higher and studies has shown that pupils are more interested learning English instead of the second native language, which leads to inferior skills in the second native language. I believe schools should implement methods that would motivate pu- pils to learn the second native language. The aim of the study is to find out if eClassroom tandem is a good addition to the teaching of the second native language by analyzing its influence on motivation, attitude, and language learning to get the result. The questions in the study: 1. What are the students' thoughts about eClassroom tandem and the second native language? 2. What is the teachers' view of students' motivation and attitude towards the second native language? 3. How does the use of eClassroom tandem affect the students' language learning? 4. How has eClassroom tandem affected the students' motivation and attitudes towards the second native language? The study is a qualitative survey study within the framework of the pilot project "Eklassluokkatandem - friends over the language border". The material I analyzed is anonymized questionnaires that were collected during fall 2023 and spring 2024. The questionnaires were filled in by 42 students and 3 teachers who participated in the pilot project. Content analysis with a deductive approach was used to analyze the questionnaires. The results were shown, among other, that many pupils feel that they have learned much more during eClassroom lessons compared to regular lessons. They have learned to speak better, listen, and coop- erate. The conclusions are positive about eClassroom tandem because students learn to speak the lan- guage for real and its more fun than regular lessons. The results shows that pupils´ experience Classtoom tandem as a good addition to the teaching in the second native language, which indicates that eClassroom tandem should be introduced in more schools in view of the positive experience