Summary: | This essay is a qualitative study based on interviews. This essay focuses on studying six primary schools teachers and twelve primary school students experiences and descriptions of English teaching design in relation to students interests and experiences. The purpose is to investigate what motivates student learning and how students extramural meetings, english activities outside school, incorporate in English teaching to create a meaningful teaching for the students. The results has been analyzed through theoretical perspectives about intrinsic motivation, the theory of a third area and design for learning. The results show that the teachers in this study are aware of the students extramural activities and uses them as a resource in the English teaching. Previous research has shown that there is a gap between the English used in school and the English used outside of school. The results show that to be able to bridge the gap between the two cultures of english teachers have designed their English lessons by the theory of a third area and a design for learning to motivate their students.
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