The. Ministry of higher and secondary special education

1. Aim
I want to examine students' and teachers' attitudes towards the texts in the books used in class. I want to find out if students and teachers prefer textbooks or authentic material or if both are needed in order to provide the students with the best possible study aids. I want to investigate which criteria go into the process of choosing the texts and to some extent which ways of working with the texts are preferable. By doing this, I aim to find out if it is possible to boost student motivation and thereby heighten their interests in reading and increase their learning abilities.
1.1 Questions
Basic questions are:
* How do you motivate the students?
* Is there a connection between the choice of texts and student motivation?
* What are teachers' and students' attitudes towards textbook texts and authentic material?
* In relation to the question above - which of the above mentioned types of text do teachers and students prefer?
* Is it necessary to combine these two types of material in order to increase students' motivation in reading or can we succeed in this by using only one?
1.2 Limitations
I decided not to take the students' cultural background, class or gender into consideration. I do understand that these factors may play an important role when discussing motivation in reading texts but due to lack of time we decided not to include these factors in our paper. Intention is not to minimize the importance of these factors. I am more interested in general opinions when reading is concerned and unless the above mentioned qualities turn out to be of great importance they will not be included in our discussion.