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

V: Yeah

BP: What else do you like in the French lesson

BP: Do you like reading... no not XX

V: Reading

BP: You know, what you like to do in the French lesson, do you like reading or writing
or speaking, what do you like best

V: Speaking

BP: You like speaking best

V: Yeah

BP: Right ...and what do you like not so much, what do you find difficult, reading,
writing, listening to the tape reorder

V: Listening to the tape re∞rder

BP: Is that difficult

V: Yeah

BP: Yeah, do you speak any other languages

V: Tamil

BP: Tamil

V: Yeah, Tamil and French

BP: What do you speak at home

BP: French as well

V: We speak Tamil

BP: Tamil

V: Yes

BP: Do your parents help you with the French

V: My sister speaks French my sister help me

BP: She helps you

V: Yeah

BP: Do you find it easy French or do you find it difficult

V: Difficult

BP: Difficult

V: Yeah

BP: More difficult than English

V: Yeah

BP: Yeah, why is that

V: Very difficult

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