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

BP: Yeah

N: If I can understand it

BP: And do you understand it most of the time

N: Most of the time yeah

BP: What about speaking in front of the class, do you like that

N: Yeas, when we played that game on sports I enjoyed that

BP: Good fun... do you think you're doing well in French

N: Yeah

BP: What makes you say that

N: Well, the first bit the first time we had French it was a little bit hard for me but as I
got on in French I got more things right and enjoyed it more

BP: When you get things right you enjoy it more, do you

N: Yeah, because then I don't have to go back and do it again

BP: Do it again... Do you speak any other languages Nicholas

N: I know a bit of German and Italian

BP: What do you speak at home

N: English

BP: English, does your mum or dad help you with French

N: Sometimes yes I've got a book with French words and it helps me xx so also my
brother helps me as well because he does he knows French as well

BP: Right, so that is useful isn't it if he can help you, so all in all you like it

N: Yeah

BP: Yeah, right, many thanks

David

BP: We're just going to talk about the French a little bit, the things you like, the things
you don't like so much, anything you want to tell me really, tell me something you like
about it

D: I like experimenting with the new words and trying to pronounce them and the
activities like when we had to act things out, I liked that and ...

BP: What do you like most speaking, listening, reading, writing

D: I like speaking French most

B: Why is that

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