Peter Carrillo amp Amelia Liggett Survey Example AGE GENDER MajorMinor Write undecided if unsure Year in School Graduate Student Senior Junior Sophomore Freshman circle one ID: 372380
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PRESTIGE FORMS: HYPERCORRECTION AND SELF-REPORTED LINGUSITC COMPETENCE IN COLLEGE STUDENTS
Peter Carrillo & Amelia LiggettSlide2
Survey Example
AGE
: ____
GENDER: ____
Major/Minor: _________________________________________ (Write “undecided” if unsure)
Year in School:
Graduate Student Senior Junior Sophomore Freshman (circle one)
Number of languages you speak besides English: ______
Rank your knowledge of Standard English grammar and punctuation: (circle one)
Below Average / Average / Above Average
How confident are you in your writing ability?
Unconfident / Confident / Very confident
SURVEY QUESTIONS
Please circle “correct” or “incorrect.” Go with your instinct—circle what you think is correct upon your
first
impression.
1) The congresswomen differed as to who they thought might win.
(correct / incorrect)
2) My boss bought my coworkers and me brand new laptops
. (correct / incorrect)
3) Whom is the recipient?
(correct / incorrect)
4) To Josh and I,
Odysseus
is the best Epic poem of all time.
(correct / incorrect)Slide3
ResultsSlide4
Self-Reported Linguistic CompetencySlide5
Conclusions
H
ow and why do students become so linguistically insecure regarding prestige forms
H
ow may this pattern be broken?
R
espondents don’t seem to understand the standard uses of prestige forms.
Respondents hypercorrect because of the perceived formality of the prestige forms in combination with their linguistic insecurity.