This qualitative study investigates teachers' perspective on the use of assistive technology (AT) in their daily teaching and interaction with children with special needs. Previous research has investigated this subject from many different angles but has mostly focused on the effects of AT, whereas this study wants to understand  other complexities such as challenges teachers face and their perspective on the effects of AT. The study was carried out in Sweden and the data was collected from both private and public schools through interviews with teachers based on the aim to investigate the role assisitive technology plays in the education of children with special needs in Swedish schools from the perspective of the teachers. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed with thematic analysis with the knowledge from previous research in mind to increase the research focus based on previous experiences abd existing gaps. This study had several important finding. Most importantly, the teachers expressed that assistive technology encouraged and motivated the children and made it easier for the teachers to present information to the children. At the same time, the teachers expressed that too much use of AT could create an unnecessary dependency for the students, that AT has a risk of being emotionally harmful for the children, and they expressed a lack of training to use these devices properly. From this, it was concluded that there is a need for more collaboration among teachers to echange experiences and ideas and a need for creating an environment that is more conductive to testing, learning, and evaluating technology use. For the future, this will be beneficial for the children using these devices as this will allow us to enhance our knowledge on the subject and improve the experience of the chidren while using these devices in their education.

I dagens samhälle blir en välutvecklad kommunikationsförmåga inom det engelska språket allt viktigare, vilket sätter ett ökat ansvar på andraspråkslärare att tillhandahålla elever den muntliga kommunikationskompetens de behöver. Språkångest är ett välkänt fenomen som främst manifesterar sig vid muntliga aktiviteter i lärandesammanhang. Detta fenomen kan beskrivas som en komplexitet av självuppfattningar, känslor och beteenden som är kopplade till språkinlärning i klassrummet. Tidigare forskning om fenomenet har belyst betydelsen av lärarens roll samt identifierat flera faktorer som kan utlösa språkångest hos elever. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur lärare i årskurserna 3 och 4 planerar sin undervisning för att reducera språkångest vid muntliga aktiviteter samt att analysera vilka skillnader och likheter som finns i metodvalen hos lärare i dessa årskurser. För att uppnå detta syfte användes semistrukturerade intervjuer som datainsamlingsinstrumentet med lärare som har erfarenhet av att undervisa i engelska i årskurserna 3 och 4. Resultaten från denna studie visar att lärare använder flera olika metoder för att minska språkångest hos elever. Genom intervjuerna kunde det konstateras att det finns både likheter och skillnader i lärarnas metodval som undervisar i årskurserna 3 och 4. Trots detta resultat kunde ingen markant skillnad i metodvalen för de båda årskurserna identifieras. / In today’s society, well-developed communication skills within the English language are important, placing a responsibility on second language teachers to provide pupils with the ora lcommunications skills they need. Language anxiety is a well-known phenomenon that mainly manifests itself on oral activities in a learning context. This phenomenon can be described as a complexity of self-perceptions, emotions and behaviors that are linked to language learning in the classroom. Previous research into the phenomenon has highlighted the impotence of the teacher’s role and identified several factors that can trigger language anxiety. The purpose of this study is to investigate how teachers in grades 3 and 4 plan their teaching to reduce language anxiety during oral activities and to analyze the differences and similarities in the method choices of teaches in these grades. To achieve this aim, semi-structured interviews were used as the date collection instrument with teachers who have experience teaching English in grades 3 and 4. The results of this study show that teachers use several different methods to reduce language anxiety in pupils. Through the interviews, it could be established that there are both similarities and differences in the methods choices of the teachers how teach grades 3 and 4. Despite this result, no marked differences in the methods choice for the two grades could be identified.