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

M: It's just because there's in French there's not so much feminines and masculine but
in Hebrew there's loads of feminine and masculine and that stuff is quite hard to learn
BP: What even more than in French

M: Yeah, there is loads of it

BP: Really

M: Yeah

BP: So with every word you have to learn what it is do you

M: Well some of it xx is the same xx some of it is masculine and feminine

BP: Right, so that makes it quite difficult

M: Yeah

BP: Do your parents help you with the French at all

M: French, yeah, I told them, sometimes I tell them what we're doing, what I've done at
school and then they'd like sort of just test me and sometimes like, say Γd said I
learned about the numbers and I tell them and they ask me what one is that sort of
stuff XX sometimes when I got the chance to tell them
BP: You do

M: Ya

BP: Do you think you're doing well in French

M: Yeah, I think Γm doing well

BP: What makes you say that

M: It's just that I, Γm enjoying it a lot and Γm learning a lot from it so I really just want to
go to France and try and test some of it out

BP: Great so you haven't been yet

M: No I've never been to France

BP: But when you get to year seven
M: Yeah

BP: There's a school trip isn't there

M: Yeah, so it's going to be quite good

BP: It'll be really nice, you're looking forward to that

M: Yeah