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

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BP: Tell me something you like about it, what you like about learning French

S: I like about sports, learning about sports and how to speak French and learning all
types of drinks and food and names and things like that that's all

BP: Do you find it easy

S: Sometimes

BP: What sort of things do you find easy

S: To say what my name is, age is and something about myself

BP: And what do you find a bit more difficult, if anything

S: How to say some of the sports, like swimming I get ∞nfused but I know the rest of
the sports

BP: Because it's a long word isn't it

S: Yes

BP: What do you like best speaking, listening, reading

S: I like speaking and listening and writing

BP: All of it

S: Yes

BP: Is it all good fun

S: Yes

BP: What about when you speak up in class do you mind

S: No I don't mind

BP: No? And if you make a mistake

S: I don't really mind because it's my first go, Γm trying to do something

BP: And that's important isn't it.. Everybody makes mistakes, I make mistakes, nobody

is perfect, what about putting your hand up do you do that a lot

S: Yeah, first I have to think what Γm going to say and then I put my hand up, because
if the teacher chooses me and Γ ve forgotten what Γm going to say

BP: Very true so you think it through first

S: Yeah

BP: Do you think you're g∞d at French

S: Yeah, a little bit

BP: What makes you say that

S: Because I don't need my xx word song when I say something and I say it like French
sometimes

BP: So got the right accent

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