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Likert Scale: Your beliefs about language learning

Young children don’t need to be taught language – they will pick it up if they hear it around them.
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Strongly Neutral Strongly
agree disagree

The extent to which a language is valued in the mainstream community will determine its survival.
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Strongly Neutral Strongly
agree disagree

Languages other than English are not valued in Australia.


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Strongly Neutral Strongly
agree disagree

Native speakers of English growing up in Australia have no need to learn another language.
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Strongly Neutral Strongly
agree disagree

Children need no special assistance to learn a new language.


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Strongly Neutral Strongly
agree disagree

Immigrants to Australia should speak English in public.


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Strongly Neutral Strongly
agree disagree

Families should speak English to their children at home if they want them to learn to speak English.
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Strongly Neutral Strongly
agree disagree

It is impractical to expect children to learn to read and write in more than one language.
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Strongly Neutral Strongly
agree disagree

All children growing up in Australia need to be fluent in English.


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Strongly Neutral Strongly
agree disagree

Language is learnt through repetition of models, which are error free.


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Strongly Neutral Strongly
agree disagree

Children’s errors in a new language should be corrected by the early childhood teacher or care-giver.
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Strongly Neutral Strongly
agree disagree

(Makin, Campbell & Jones Diaz, 1995, pp. xxx–xxxi)

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