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

French Γd like to Ieam another language

French because I hope to go there a lot in the future

French because I liked French better then the other languages
Italian because I like the way the pronunce their words

I woud choose football becuse I like football

Girls 6C

Six of the girls said that they enjoyed learning French:

It's good to learn a new language

I liked talking ot each other in French

It is a brilliant language

It would be good having to know 3 languages

It is fun to Ieam other language

Learning a new language is interesting

Four said they did not enjoy learning French:

I don't remember most of it

It's hard to learn a different language

It was hard to learn

I don't see the point of learning it

Five girls said they would like to learn more French:

French is a nice language and I want to speak fluently

Then I can understand French people

I would like to speak to other people in french

I would like to go to France

I want to go to France on holiday and speak French there

Four said they did not want to learn any more French:
it is abit hard

I thought it was hard to remembe words

I find it hard speacking and pronousing words

I know I'll never need to use it

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