I asked just under 20 people a page of questions to find out their thoughts on influences of Standard English and Ethnicity. I also aske questions about how they believe the English Language has changed and adapted over the years. There were many links between respondents and they were usually in the same age group for example people in the age group of 31-40 seemed to all have similar views, this showed that their age and more knowledge helped them compared to teachers in the age group below (20-30).
Out of all the teachers I asked 80% of them believed that their is a correct and incorrect way to speak and that Standard English has been forced to adapt. Their reasoning for these views was because of people from different countries moving to live here and less racism within the country the language has been made to fit around other cultures as well. They also all identified that they believed slang works and negatives to be the incorrect way to speak and someone to speak like this would most likely be from a younger generation and that "the queens English" is well pronounced and posh but is the correct way to speak.
When asking in my questionnaire beliefs of what the word ethnicity would mean many didn't understand and just came to the conclusion that it is from where you originate from.
Also when asking about "proper English" many people couldn't explain what they believed this to be and just said that it was the right way to speak.
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