Questionnaire

Questionnaire

I am a student at Shenfield High School and I am exploring into the Standard English Language. You do not have to participate in this questionnaire if you do not want to and your answers are kept confidential.

1. What is your nationality? (Please tick one box)

White British

American (African and North/South)

Asian

Middle Eastern

European

Other

2. What is your age? (Please tick one box)

20-30        31-40         41-50          51+

3. What does the word ethnicity mean to you?

4. Do you think that the use of Standard English has decreased? If yes,  why and how?

5. Please read these two sentences and express your opinion of these sentences and which social class you think they belong to?

Sentence 1:

Why ain’t you gonna come out tomorrow?

Sentence 2:

My Lord, what time will we be attending the ball tonight?

6. Do you think that the language used by Black British people is standard or not? If yes, how?

7. Do you know anyone who is of an Afro-Caribbean ethnicity? If yes, what is their dialect and how is it different to the Standard English dialect?

Dialect is the language variety of a geographical region or social background. Different forms of grammar(structure of language), lexis (word choices), phonology (word sounds) and semantics (word and phrase meaning) affect dialect.