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



them and she lets you choose and then she picks an orangina you don't know she's
∞vering it and you have to guess what you think it is and when you guessed it right
you get, mmh you get to like choose it and I like it when you have to answer questions
like she looks at them, she quickly picks one up and aks you, she quickly takes them
out as fast as she can she dont' go like x× she goes like that she picks it and then she
puts it back in.

BP: You find that good fun

S: Yeah and I like it when we play games. Like we played the xx ball and I got two
numbers

BP: Right, do you think you're doing well in French

S: Yes

BP: Why do you think so

S: Because last time I used to speak French I ∞uldn't say my days right, I ∞uld say, I
said all the days except for samedi and dimanche but the rest I got them and I, like
they they weren't in the right order and they were all muddled up and I couldn't say
drinks or anything because in my old school I used to learn French and like after school
I had French classes and my French teacher she left and for a certain amount of time
when I came to this school then she came back to do French again so., we then when
I left I couldn't do anymore French except for when I first started this school again.

BP: Right, now what's your name again, Comment t’appelles-tu

S: Je m'appelle Sareet

BP: Sareet, S , a...

S: R e e t, can you...not there's not an 'h', can you ask Miss if we can go through the
alphabet again, the whole class go through the alphabet

BP: I'll let her know, Ok many thanks, I think you did really well

Donna

BP: We're going to talk a little bit about the French Ok, just tell me the things
you like and the things you don't like so much

D: Sports I like the natation and the ski

BP: No you don't have to speak in French you can just tell me in English

D: I like to say it in French
BP: OK

D: I like natation and Ie ski

BP: Qu'est ce que tu aimes... Ia natation

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