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

BP: What about writing

R: It's OK, it's just not really xx wondering what the spelling's are

BP: It's a bit more difficult isn't it

R: The spellings yeah xx

BP: What makes you say that

R: Well it’s like xx difficult than the English words

BP: Very true, do you like speaking in class

R: Sort of

BP: Not too keen are you

R: No not really

BP: What if you make a mistake

R: Mmh

BP: Do you mind

R: Not really

BP: You prefer not to speak out in front of

R: Yeah, I don't mind

BP: But you're not that keen are you...or are you

R: No, not really

BP: It's alright not everybody likes the same things you know everybody is different,
some people like reading some people like writing things some people like tapes some
people like speaking everyboy likes different things... Are you happy in the French
lesson...are you looking forward to next year...do you want to carry on with it...do you
speak any other languages

R: Yeah cause I go to Sunday school I learn Hebrew

BP: Oh do you, nice

R: Cause Γm Jewish

BP: How is that is that more difficult

R: Yes, much more dificult it’s like you have to do a whole paragraph xx

BP: What Ieam by heart

R: No just you have to be able to read it from the book, like the letters are much more
difficult, we don't have like, we have like separate vowels we don't have vowels from
the actual like in the English alphabet they use like i, e, a, o, u but they're from the
alphabet but we have like different we have like vowels that are part of the alphabet
BP: Like what can you give me an example

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