Digitala läromedel i  engelskundervisning : En analys av vad webbsidor kan bidra med i relation till grundskolans centrala innehåll

Sammanfattning: Children of today grow up in a digital world. Society becomes increasingly digitized, and as a result of that, the conditions for education have changed. Digital tools become more and more common in the classroom. The purpose of this essay is to find out what online websites can contribute to in the language classroom, and what other aspects teachers need to consider in conjunction with that. To do this we did a teaching material study on five websites developed for educational use. We have reviewed the websites to find out if pupils can access the central content for English F-3, by using the websites. The study will also focus on the gender perspective and what the websites can mediate to pupils in that respect. Our analysis shows that integration of websites in the language classroom can promote the pupils’ goal completion and their learning process. We can see that it requires that teachers have pedagogic competence. Our analysis shows that even if the websites can contribute to school’s knowledge mission, they can fail in other aspects, such as the schools value mission. Our conclusion is therefore that the teachers’ pedagogic competence is highly relevant, in that they must have so many different aspects to consider when planning lessons and what study material to use.