Aspects of students' motivation and attitudes towards teaching materials in a bilingual high school sociology program

Kos, Valentina. (2017). Aspects of students' motivation and attitudes towards teaching materials in a bilingual high school sociology program. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of English Language and Literature
Department of Sociology. [mentor Geld, Renata and Bošnjak, Zvonimir].

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Abstract

This thesis deals with the topic of teaching materials used in a bilingual high school curriculum and students' attitudes towards the materials. The main assumption is that positive attitudes towards teaching material may result in the increase in students’ motivation. In order to find out more about students’ attitudes and to test the assumption, we conducted a research in “X. gimnazija Ivan Supek” high school in Zagreb, Croatia. The aim was to learn about students' attitudes towards teaching materials they used in a CLIL sociology course and to see what attitudes students have towards authentic texts. The research was designed to answer the following questions: What type of materials do students prefer working with and why? What is students’ opinion about working with an authentic text and are their opinions positive or negative? Are students interested in working with authentic texts in future lessons? Qualitative data were collected via a questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive analysis. There were two questionnaires, one for each stage of the research. The group of participants for the first questionnaire was N=16 and for the second N=10. All participants were members of the same class. The overall conclusion is that students have positive attitudes towards teaching materials used in the course, including the authentic text used in the research.

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