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

BP: What if Miss asks you a question

S: What

BP: If Miss asks you a question do you mind or is that OK

S: Ok

BP: You don't mind...that's OK...do you like French

S: What

BP: Is it good fun

S: Yes

BP: Do you want to carry on with it

S: Yes

BP: Good...do you want to tell me anything else

S: No

Mairaj

M: I like doing in French about the drinks and xx and how to say money...example for
the teacher, I like doing the sports

BP: Good, what about speaking it

M: I find speaking it easy, sometimes my pronunciation is not as well as on the tapes,
sometimes I think

BP: Why do you think sometimes

M: Sometimes I don't put my hand up because I feel shy sometimes, cause I normally
do that in other xx when the teacher asks us questions in other subjects like

BP: But in French you find it a bit more, you want to be sure before you put your hand
up

M: Yeah

BP: You don't like making mistakes then do you

M: It's like an jus d'orange I didn't know how to pronounce it properly so I had to go
over and over it again

BP: You keep trying until you get it right...What about listening to the tape re∞rder
M: XX pretty simple and when it goes on a piece of sheet sometimes now I can
understand and if you've done the words and it includes those words that we have
learned and I like the...

BP: So that's quite easy then isn't it

M: I liked it when we had to cut out the little pictures and stick them onto the piece of
card and write about the name and then and what they liked and je n'aime pas

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