English survey

ENGLISH SURVEY

I am an A level student currently studying English Language. I am conducting a survey to try and understand people’s perceptions of the English language and what effects our language. If you don’t wish to answer a question please state where necessary. Thank you.     

 

1. What is your age? (Please tick where appropriate)

 

•18-24 years old

 

•25-34 years old

 

•35-44 years old

 

•45-54 years old

 

•55-64 years old

 

•65-74 years old

 

•75 years or older

 

 

2. Please specify your ethnicity.

 

 

3. What is the highest degree or level of school you have completed?

 

 

4. What is your current occupation?

 

 

5. What is your current geographic location?

 

6. How would you define “ethnicity”?

 

 

7. What do you consider to be “proper English”?

 

 

8. Would you consider the queen to speak “proper English”?

 

 

9.  Do you consider immigration to have had a positive or negative effect on the English Language? Why?

 

 

10. Do you consider the afro Caribbean dialect to be “proper English”?

 

 

11. Do you think British afro Caribbean’s vernacular has influenced and changed British white people’s day to day language? How/why?

 

 

 

12. Where were you born?

 

 

13. Do you think the afro Caribbean influence has ruined the English language? Why?

 

 

 

14. Do you think non-afro Caribbean people living in areas of a high concentration of afro Caribbean people have changed their accent and dialect more compared to people living in areas of a low concentration of afro Caribbean people?

 

15. Is this a good thing?