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



K: Yeah

BP: Do you mind if you make a mistake

K: Not that much

BP: Not that much, no, you still put your hand up

K: Yes, sometimes

BP: Why only sometimes

K: Because I don't know some things sometimes

BP: And if you don't know you don't put your hand up

K: Yes, I don't put my hand up if I don't know

BP: Good, anything else you want to tell me

K: I don't have anything else

BP: No? But you like French do you

K: Yeah

BP: Are you looking forward to next year

K: Yes but I might change school before I go to year 5

BP: Why do you think that is

K: Because Γm changing house

BP: Are you

K: Yeah

BP: Where are you going to go

K: I don' t know yet

BP: Are you staying in ... or going somewhere else

K: I don't know I might go somewhere else

BP: So you don't know if they'll do French in your new school

K: Yeah

BP: But you would like to

K: Yeah

BP: Great, many thanks

Daniel

BP: We'll talk about the French a bit, just tell me what you like and what you don't like
so much, just anything you want to say really. What do you like best

D: Rounders and playing my nintendo, playing this 15 ∞mputer that's my mums, it's
called Doom, its for fifteens and its’ really funny, my dad he always plays on it, he plays

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