"Jag vill lära mig när det är intressant" : Några elever i behov av stöd i sitt språk- läs- och skrivlärande beskriver motivation

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to investigate how students in need of support in their language- reading and writing learning describe motivation. The intentions are to investigate how students in need of support in their language-reading and writing learning describe motivation and how students in need of support in their language-reading and writing learning describe motivational education. This is a qualitative study based on 6 interviews. The student interviews are conducted on students between 10-12 years and the selection criteria are primarily that all informants are in need of support in their language-reading and writing learning. The result shows that the informants' descriptions of motivation and motivational education were pupil-oriented, meaning that the informants gave concrete examples of what motivated them, here and now. Furthermore, the conclusion that the social relations of the informants are of great importance in motivational work, which means that the students' social relations play a major role in the work of raising the students' inner motivation. This is in line with the theoretical starting point of this study, the sociocultural perspective, which means that the social context and language is one of our most important tools for developing our thinking and creating new knowledge. In the results the informants said that communication, support or scaffolding, from the teacher is crucial for motivation, which is also one of the school's main tasks.