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Instruction preparing for basic education is needed increasingly in Finland. According to the functional view of language learning and sociocultural theories, communication and participation in community have central role in instruction preparing for basic education, for second language learning as well as for the acculturation. In this study it was examined, how the pupil’s participation in classroom community developed during the instruction preparing for basic education. In this study, factors affecting the development of participation were summarized. The previous scientific information directly on the subject of this study is scarce. The aim of the study is to counter the increasing need for the information to organize the instruction preparing for basic education, to gain understanding of the individual as a member of a group in instruction preparing for basic education, and to raise new questions, which should be studied in the future. In the study, pupil’s participation in a group of instruction preparing for basic education was examined by performing a descriptive review of the literature. Review of the literature was based on central, high-quality and original papers of the area of research. Information significant for the research problem was searched from the literature, and organized as wholes based on the content. The review concluded and summarized central results and theories and combined and compared information and points of view provided by different sources. Development of individual’s participation in community seemed to follow a particular pattern. Participation and its development was affected by individual’s native language and individual’s skill level at that language, phonological skills, interaction skills, motivation and personality traits, and culture of performance in community and community’s linguistic support and opportunities for communication. Special aspects of multilingualism appeared both in individual’s learning and communication in community. Development of individual’s participation in instruction preparing for basic education can be seen to move from systematically peripheral and quiet participation towards constructional and full participation. Several factors make this development individual for each pupil.