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



CHAPTER SIX

Case Study Two - School Two

6.1    Introduction                                                        311

6.2 School Two - Background                                     311

6.2.1 SocialandDemographicFactors                        311

6.2.2 NationaicurriculumAssessmentResuIts                 312

6.2.3 LanguagesPresent                                   312

6.2.4 Class Composition and the Teacher                      312

6.2.5 PatternsofProvisioninFrench                          313

6.2.6 LearningContext                                       313

6.2.7 TeacherUseofEngIish                                314

6.3   Observed Outcomes - School Two                            315

6.3.1 ChiIdren1SFrench                                        315

6.3.2 Enthusiasm and Willingness'to have a'Go,                319

6.3.3 Attention Spans                                         320

6.3.4 Social Learning Outcomes                              322

6.3.5 Learning Strategies and Guessing                        323

6.3.6 Reading and Writing                                     325

6.3.7 LanguageAwareness                                326

6.4   Questionnaires                                                327

6.4.1 AnalysisofDatafromQuestionnaires                     327

6.5   Findings from Questionnaires                                   329

6.5.1 Enthusiasm                                           329

6.5.2 Is French Easy?                                         329

6.5.3 Listening to French                                        331

6.5.4 Speaking in French                                      332

6.5.5 Reading in French                                       332

6.5.6 Writing in French                                          333

6.5.7 Homework                                         334

6.5.8 The Things Children Liked Most                         334

6.5.9 The Things Children Liked Least                          335

6.5.10 Things They Thought They Had Learned                 336



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