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



BP: It's good fun

G: Yeah

BP: You want to continue, carry on with it

G: Definitely

BP: Definitely, well done

Michael

BP: Right Michael tell me a little bit about the French then, what do you like about it,
learning it

M: Well I like learning about all the sorts of new topics we do, including sports and
sports and dislikesand I like saying what sorts of sports we like and what we don't like
and I like the topic what we're doing at the moment on drinks all about the different
drinks. I also like doing counting up all the numbers, learning with the numbers and
that's about all really

BP: What about speaking, listening, reading, writing all those things, which ones do you
like best

M: I like XX saying, saying about, saying what I wrote down in my book, j'aime Ie
football and je, je voudrais un coca

BP: So you like speaking in French

M: Yeah

BP: What if you make a mistake do you mind

M: No, I don't, I would like to get them all right really, but I don't mind if people go na na
na, I just get on with my thing

BP: Just keep trying, yeah

M: Yeah

BP: What about the things you don't like so much is there anything you're not too keen
on

M: No because like I really like learning about a different language really and I find it
quite fun

BP: Good. Do you speak any other languages

M: At home, not at home actually I go to, Γm Jewish so I go to a Jewish school on
Sundays and I Ieam Hebrew

BP: How's that, is that easy

M: No it's not as easy as French, it's quite it's quite hard

BP: What makes it hard

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