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

BP: Just to find out really, what you like, what you don't like so much, what's good fun,
anything you can think of really

R: Mmh...I like animals

BP: What about French...Do you like speaking, listening or writing

R: I prefer speaking it

BP: You don't mind speaking aloud in front of the class...what if you make mistake

R: I don't mind

BP: Do you put your hand up a lot..you do don't you, I noticed, what about writing....do
you find that difficult

R: Sort of if you don't know how to spell

BP: Do you find it's good fun French...do you want to continue

R: I speak Czech really...XX she went to Paris for a few days

BP: Did she learn a bit of French

R: I don't know

BP: Do you speak French to her

R: No I mostly speak Czech to her

BP: How long is she with you

R: She is with us till ЗО XX

BP: Say something in Czech to me

R: XX

BP: What does it mean

R: Where is my XX Once we were kicking XX the first I learned XX I think I do

BP: What makes you say that XX ...no I don't know, it's probably all wrong, it's getting a
bit noisy again, do you think you're doing well in French

R: Mmh, yeah, I think

BP: What makes you say that

R: Don't know

BP: Anything else you want to say

R: In High School you can choose in French or German and then they go on trips

BP: So you go there when you get to that school, which language would you like to do
R: Γm not sure...German is hard

Mitul

M: In French

BP: Not in French, about French, learning French

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