Tyska med elevers ögon

The aim of this study was to get a survey and a deeper understanding of students’ choice of language at upper secondary school, as well as their attitude and motivation to the German language. The rapports of diminished interests in studying languages at upper secondary school raised our interest in how to go against this and motivate students to actually choose to study a language. The study parted from a student perspective with focus on learning, attitude and motivation. A quantitative study with 168 pupils from 11 secondary schools in Halmstad as well as short interviews with their teachers have been used and analysed. Our study showed that students are not particular interested in German. Additionally many of the students will only choose to study German if it involves higher qualification points and not because they think it is useful. It also showed that depending on which school the students went to and also depending on the teachers they have had, they are much influenced of how fun they believe German to be and how reluctant they are to choose it at upper secondary school