Muren mellan skolan och fritidens engelska : Hur inkluderas extramural engelska i skolans engelskundervisning?

Sammanfattning: This study explores the integration of extramural English in school teaching of English and use among students outside the classroom. With the growing exposure to English through digital media, a new concept of "prosumer" is being created, a role that students increasingly fulfill where they are active both as consumers and producers. It is at this stage that I become more interested in this field of study and begin to think about how the school world addresses and includes students' extramural English, and how students use the English they learn at school in their spare time. Is there a link between these two types of English?  By interviewing seven teachers and twelve students from year 6 in southern Sweden, this study investigates how extramural English is used in teaching. The results show an awareness among teachers about how students learn and interact with English language learning outside of school, but a lack of concrete methods of how this knowledge is integrated in the classroom. The students report that they use their “school taught English”  mainly in social media and online games, which promote and develop their communication skills, pronunciation, spelling and vocabulary.