Pre-Service Primary English Teachers' Beliefs About Language Learning

This article presents a study aimed at investigating the beliefs about language learning held by 307 prospective Primary English language teachers. The data, obtained by means of the Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory (BALLI) (Horwitz, 1987), were analysed through descriptive statistical procedures. The findings indicate that,the participants hold some erroneous beliefs that the teaching education programme should address and confront with conceptions coherent with the current state of the art in the field of language learning research and professional knowledge.