After the restoration of Lithuanian independence, it has become a necessity to learn the Lithuanian language for many citizens of Lithuania, whose native language is not Lithuanian. In the schools of national minority children with special needs also have to learn the state language. As it is observed in practice, not all children with special needs come to school with perfect knowledge of their native language, so we can presume that these children encounter with a lot of difficulties, arising from their surrounding factors, while learning the state language. This work is performed to reveal the peculiarities of teaching and learning the state language to schoolchildren, having special needs, at national minority school. Two groups of respondents took part in this research: Lithuanian language teachers of national minority schools and children with special needs. Analysis of the research has shown that the number of schoolchildren with special needs integrated into national minority schools is increasing. The Lithuanian language teachers of national minority schools do not have enough knowledge about teaching non-native language to schoolchildren with special needs. However, the educators’ attitude towards these schoolchildren is positive. A lack of special language teaching devices, textbooks is felt while educating children with special needs, so the teachers differentiate and constantly prepare individual tasks for these schoolchildren. The state language learning... [to full text]

Syftet med mitt arbete är att undersöka hur några grundskoleelever ser på elevinflytande och sin egen möjlighet att påverka i skolan, samt hur denna möjlighet gestaltar sig. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer med åtta elever från två olika skolklasser i skolår sex på en grundskola i Sverige, har jag undersökt vilken uppfattning eleverna har om elevinflytande. Resultatet visar att eleverna räknar med ett väldigt begränsat inflytande i skolan. Min slutsats är att de inte har det inflytande som de verkligen har rätt till enligt Skollagen och Lpo94. / The purpose of my paper is to investigate how some pupils in the comprehensive school look upon student influence and their own possibilities to have any influence at school, and how this possibility takes shape. With the aid of qualitative interviews with eight 6th graders from two different classes at a comprehensive school in Sweden I have investigated how the pupils view the matter of student influence. The results show that they expect to have very limited influence at school. My conclusion is that they do not have the amount of influence they are entitled to according to Skollagen, and Lpo 94.