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

BP: Very difficult

V: Yes

BP: Would you like to Ieam a different language or would you not like to Ieam you
know, French

V: I like Tamil, I don't like ... I don't like

BP: French

V: I like French... me no understand French

BP: No? Nothing or just a little bit

V: Nothing

BP: Nothing

V: Yeah

BP: When the teacher speaks in French you don't understand it

V: No

BP: No

V: No

BP: When you read something

V: I read no, not something, not something

BP: Nothing

V: Yeah

BP: Can you say something to me in French

V: Hello

BP: Comment Vappelles tu

V:...

BP: What am I asking you

V: Asking...

BP: If you don't know it... say you don't know

V: Yeah

BP: You don't know

V: Yeah

BP: You find it difficult

V: I do know, yeah

BP: You do know

V: Yeah

BP: What am I asking you when I say comment t'appelles-tu

V: I don't know

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