ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the work carried out with pupils in the six project schools during the first three years of the project. It reports primarily on the findings from the language attitude questionnaire completed by pupils each year, but also describes views expressed by a small sample of pupils in a series of group interviews. Statistical analysis of the questionnaires revealed that higher proportions of pupils, in general, were enjoying the language they were learning rather than not, but that enthusiasm was at its greatest in the first year. In general, pupils were found to be well disposed towards the country and people of the language they were learning, although pupils learning French were less keen on contact with the foreign country than pupils learning German or Spanish. Experience of the foreign country was clearly an important variable affecting pupil attitudes, but two other factors, the sex of pupils and their ability, were also found to be influential.
