Rein digital und multimedial : Das rein digitale Lehrwerk im Deutschunterricht an schwedischen Schulen aus Sicht von Lehrern und Produzenten

Sammanfattning: This paper is the second part of a study where the first part was written as a literature review on digital learning at school. In this second part the paper focuses on digital schoolbooks and their use in foreign language teaching, an area that has not been researched yet. Multimedia, interactivity and interaction are terms connected to learning with digital schoolbooks. These books aim to cover all a subject’s contents leading up to pupils using different multimedia features through a learning process. Previous findings indicate that using digital tools help to individualize teaching by supporting children’s individual needs in learning. This paper concerns on teachers and producers’ purposes and experiences in using the digital schoolbooks in foreign language learning in Swedish primary and secondary schools. The paper presents the results of interviews with four teachers and a publishers’ staff member. The main conclusions are that multimedia learning promotes effective learning and that teachers wish to increase their influence in practical terms in order to improve the books effectiveness in teaching contexts.