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

S: I think so

BP: Do your parents help you

S: They don't know French but I just have to Ieam myself

BP: Like most people, yeah, but it's nice that you're trying

S: My cousins teach me as well they still Ieam French

BP: So they can help you

S: Yeah

BP: Do you want to carry on with it

S: Yeah

BP: Do you think it's good fun

S: Yeah, nice to learn another language

BP: Very true, you know English and you can speak Hindi and French a little bit what
next

S: English

BP: Do you want to say anything else

S: No

Deborah

BP: You just tell me a little bit about learning French, what you like about it

D: I like the way they say it when they say like xx and things like that, I like learning
French XX

BP: Why do you like it do you think

D: I don't really know

BP: You just like it

BP: That's good, what do you find a bit more difficult, if anything

D: Nothing really

BP: Speaking, listening, reading writing, all easy

D: Speaking I can't do

BP: You can't

D: Yeah

BP: Why do you think you can't do that

D: I don' t know, I don’t know all the French words

BP: So you find that a bit more difficult

D: Yes

BP: What about listening to the tape re∞rder

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