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

R: There's one that's got two dots makes an xx three dots let's say xx and it's not part
of the alphabet it's ×x but with a dot in the middle

BP: Right, so the different dots give you different sounds that makes it quite difficult
doesn't it...but still good fun

R: Mmh it's actually xx boring

BP: You keep at it cause it's all worthwhile

R: Cause when you’re 13 we have to have a Mitra like it's just like practising getting
ready for it

BP: So you need to know for then don't you

R: The one thing about the Mitra is my ∞usin, he is having his in October and I'll have
to say a speech there

BP: Do you, in Hebrew

R: No, XX

BP: In English

R: Yeah

BP: So you don't need to practice that much for it

R: Not really but it's going to be a big crowd cause last time I went to my cousins one
they didn't say the speeches but this time Γm going to and my other ∞usin is going to
have to say one too

BP: But you'll be alright Γm sure you will be alright if you make a mistake so what it's
not the end exactly, everybody makes them. OK, I'll stop this now

Natasha

N: I liked it when we done the sports cause Miss used to ask us what sports we liked
and what we didn't and she used to asked us to put in sentences, I like doing the drinks
because we had to act out one person as a waiter and one person as the other person,
that's it

BP: What do you like most speaking or listening to the tape or reading or writing

N: Reading, speaking and listening to the tape

BP: Do you find the tape easy

N: Mmh

BP: And what about speaking, you don't mind speaking out in front of the class

N: No

BP: What if you make a mistake

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