A Critical Examination of the Beliefs about Learning a Foreign Language at Primary School



has the 'right accent'. She wants to carry on with French as 'it is nice to Ieam
another language'.

Deborah

Deborah says she likes learning French although she does not really know why.

She says she does not find anything really difficult but when prompted she
says 'speaking I can't do because I don't know all the French words'. She says
she finds listening to the tape recorder quite easy. Deborah thinks she is doing
well in French and wants to carry on with it although she does not sound too
sure. She also says she would like to Ieam German because her 'mum already
knows Germany'.

Sanji

Sanji is not very forthcoming possibly due to problems with English. There
seems to be much confusion during this interview. He seems to like things
apart from writing which he thinks is too hard. He says he does not like
speaking up in front of the class 'because of the children's laughing'.

Mairaj

Mairaj says he likes doing French. He says he finds speaking French easy,
although (as can be heard on the tape) he speaks with a strong accent.

It seems that Mairaj is very aware of not sounding 'native-like' as he says that
'sometimes my pronunciation is not as well as on the tapes' and that he does
not often put his hand up because he feels shy. He says that he sometimes

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