A qualitative study about teachers’ views on teaching English to newly arrived students in secondary school in Sweden

The purpose of this qualitative study is to shed light on how secondary school teachers view the situation of newly arrived students in English teaching, and how they describe the way they teach newly arrived students in English in order to strengthen their knowledge development. Through semi-structured interviews with secondary school teachers, different teaching methods, adaptations and challenges in teaching newly arrived students were uncovered. The teachers claim that the students' previous knowledge has a great impact on their results and that language difficulties are a major challenge in teaching newcomers. The results also show that the teachers make adjustments to improve newly arrived students’ knowledge of English, and that more resources would have facilitated the teaching. With Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory as a starting point, the results were discussed in relation to relevant research.Engelska