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



speaking to the teacher in french because it would make me understand and

co-operate with the teacher more

doing my best because Γm not very good at french

I won't be learning it because Γm learning Spanish & German

Learning more words because I find learning words easy

reading because I forget how to read some harder words

Asked what they were looking forward to least at secondary school:

learning numbers because I already know them

learning sentences because I find it confusing

doing too much homework because I can't handle it well

having a lot of homework because you may have a lot of homework from the other
lessons

speaking to the teacher because it would be fun

I don't because no what to say

Asked Ifthey could choose any language to Ieam at secondary school which one
would they choose and why:

I would like to do some German

French and Spanish because my mum speaks it and it sounds really nice

I would choose *french because it's a little easier to learn than some other languages

Spanish beacuse Spanish is easy and French is a hard

Italien

I would choose Punjabi because I can already understand it and I think I would speak it
easily

I don't think you should stick with one language because it often gets boring. A little bit
of everything is fun.

I would choose French and German because my cousin speaks German and I want to
talk to her and French because I want to proove to everyone that I was bom in France.

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