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

G: Yeah, my brother is doing a lot of French XX there's a lot of people in my family
who can speak a lot of French, my gran used to, my granpa knew a lot but his memory
is gone my mum knows a lot and so does my dad and my brother

BP: So you can get lots of help from everybody, great, OK, we better stop it now
because it’s your lunch

Kunigoshi

BP: Which languages do you speak

K: A little bit of Korean, Japanese, English

BP: Do you like French

K: Yeah

BP: Tell me what you like about it

K: I like the drinks

BP: The drinks, what else do you like, do you like speaking best or listening or reading

K: Reading

BP: Why do you like reading best

K: Because it's fun

BP: It’s fun, what makes it fun

K: It has some fun things in it like sometimes somebody says jokes in it, I like the jokes
and sometimes mazes and something like that so I like reading

BP: It's good fun

K: Yeah

BP: And what do you like not so much

K: I don't like writing that much

BP: Why do you not like writing

K: Because if you write for a long time your hands get tired

BP: Is that in English or in French or both

K: Both

BP: Both

BP: So what do you like best of all in the French lesson

K: I like reading and saying out things when the teacher asks me questions I like
sometimes to answer

BP: You like doing that