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

BP: Do you like it in English reading

N: Yeah

BP: So it's just the French reading you don't like, everybody likes different things so
that's perfectly alright. What about when you need help

N: I ask Miss or sometimes I ask my friend who's next to me and if they don't know I
ask Miss

BP: So you ask your friend first and if she doesn’t know you ask the teacher. Does
your friend ask you

N: Yes, sometimes

BP: Do you find...go on

N: Cause sometimes Γm not too sure if we have to tick one box if it's right and cross
the other so I ask are we supposed to cross the other box or do we just leave it, things
like that

BP: So you help each other which is nice. What about new words do you find new
words easy

N: If they are long and hard to pronounce they're a bit hard but after a while I get the
hang of them they're quite easy

BP: Right, anything else you want to tell me, you can think of

N: No

BP: You're happy

N: Yeah

BP: Good, so am I

Geoffrey

BP: XX What do you like about it, tell me something you really enjoy

G: Learning it

BP: Mmh, do you like all of it

G: Yeah, just like all of it really

BP: You like speaking it

G: Asking questions in French or talking in French

BP: Reading

G: Yeah in French, writing in French

BP: It's all good fun is it

BP: Do you find it all easy

G: No, not most of the time

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