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



I don't really like it

BP: No, you don't, would you prefer to Ieam a different language

L: No

BP: Just not too keen, why do you think that is

L: I don't know I just I don't know just do

BP: Just don't like it that much

L: I do like it but it depends if it’s XX if it's XX

L: We do a lot of drawing, we write a sentence down and do a drawing along with it
that's why I usually like my French

BP: The drawing

L: Yeah

BP: You like that best

I: Yeah

BP: What about English what do you like in English

L: Nothing much

BP: No, you don't like English either? What's your favourite subject

L: Maths

BP: Really, do you like number work and stuff like that

L: Yeah, I like the Iadyjust there because she speaks Swedish

BP: Do you speak Swedish

L: Yeah

BP: At home

L: No, my my aunt used to live in Sweden one day she just went there, she ∞mes
back and then my ∞usins came and then XX we go there and we stayed there for
three weeks and they just told us quite a lot of words and Γm beginning to understand it
now

BP: Do you like Swedish better do you

L: Probably yeah

BP: Why do you think that is

L: Because Γm used to the language and you don't have to colour in the sheets XX

BP: But I thought you liked colouring in the sheets

L: Yeah I do but like it's XX really really really hard but I just do any colour you're
supposed to be doing them like blue, pink and yellow like I can't always make out what
it says because it says, it's got this funny writing, I get muddled up between blue and
black

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