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



3.5   Affective Learning Outcomes                                     156

3.5.1 Enthusiasm                                             156

3.5.2 LanguageLearningis1Easy'                             159

3.5.3 ChangingAttitudes                                        161

3.5.4 Anxiety                                                   162

3.6   OtherFindings                                                163

3.6.1 EffectsonLanguageProvision                           163

3.6.2 ChiIdrenfromDifferentBackgrounds                       165

3.7 Potential Problem Areas Surrounding Evaluations of Outcomes 166

3.7.1 Methods                                                167

3.7.1.1 Audio-VisuaIMethodoIogy                        167

3.7.1.2 Current Methods                                  170

3.7.1.3 References to Children's First Language           175

3.7.1.4 AccesstoWrittenLanguage                     177

3.7.2 TeacherCompetence                                 179

3.7.3 Continuity                                                   184

3.7.4 ChoiceofLanguage                                   184

3.7.5 The Special Case of English                                186

3.7.6 Assessment Issues                                      190

3.8 Conclusion                                                   193

CHAPTER FOUR

Factors Affecting Foreign Language Learning in the Primary

School Classroom

4.1    Introduction                                                          198

4.2   LearningaForeignLanguageintheCIassroom                199

4.3   Demands on the Learner                                     201

4.3.1 ConsciousnessandthelmportanceofNoticing            205

4.3.2 Noticing and Phonological Development                   207

4.3.3 Attention Spans                                           209

4.3.4 Noticing and Syntactical Deveopment                     212

4.3.4.1 AttentiontoFormandCognitiveMaturity          213



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