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Some research on the attitudes among comprehensive school pupils have been made in the context of different school subjects. In this study, I wanted to examine the attitudes among comprehensive school pupils toward mother tongue and literature. Consideration of subject name definition and teaching content in the research were also considered due to versatility of the subject. I was also interested in what methods were used in the studies and what were their effects on the results. This study was conducted as a literature review, which first summarized the findings of the research and presented their main points. Moreover, a separate discussion of study results and description for name and content parts were presented. The materials used in this study were searched from Helka Finna service databases and from Google Scholar search en-gine. In addition, two articles were searched from Google search engine. Studies showed that the attitudes among comprehensive school pupils are either neutral or slightly negative towards mother tongue and literature. However, some studies also showed slightly positive attitudes towards the subject. Many studies had taken gender differences into account. Attitudes were measured either qualitatively or quantitatively, nonetheless the results were rather similar regardless of the used methods. However, a more versatile picture of attitudes was obtained by qualitative research. In studies that considered teaching content, grammar was generally considered to be the most unpopular part of the subject. However, the importance or usefulness of both the grammar and the whole subject was recognized. Pupils believe that the content of mother tongue and literature is needed, for example, in working life. Teaching contents were considered in half of the research. The subject was referred to as either mother tongue or mother tongue and literature. The used name was not related to the time when the subject content changed to include both mother tongue and literature.