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

Pupil offers: 'How old are you'

Lesson Five

Teacher: 'stop fiddeling Otherwisewe waste lots of time, close your books, half
ofthe battle of learning a language is listening, if you don't listen you won't
learn'

AJI are now quiet

Teacher: Quel age a-t-eɪle?

Pupil: 'How old is he?'

Teacher repeats: 'Quel Sge a-t-elle?

Pupil: 'J'ai...

Another pupil helps out: 'Elle a...

Teacher: ^,What does 'il' mean?'

Pupil: 'He'

Teacher: 'Quel age as-tu?'

Pupil ansers correctly: ^,J'ai...'

Teacher: 'Quel age as-tu?'

One answers: 'A-t-il j'ai onze ans'.

Teacher introduces Voici + name + age'

Class practises introducing their ne ghbour

Pupil to me: 'Miss I forgot, what is it?'

Boy introduces boy: Voici...elle a....'

Teacher: ^,Who remembers how to say where you live?'

3 hands go up

Two boys next to me do not remember

One asks me: 'Miss how do you remember, how do you keep talking, I don't
remember.

Pupil asks me twice how to say ’he’ and then produces: 'll j'ai onze ans.

Class getting restless

One pupil offers: Voici...elle a... elle habite... gets it all right

Teacher prompts girl after she produced 'elle a onze ans' with 'ou habite-elle?'

Girl produces: 'Ou habite elle habite ð Ealing'

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