Questionnaire for the students
INVESTIGATING ATTITUDES OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TOWARDS STANDARD AND
PAKISTANI ENGLISH IN A PAKISTANI UNIVERSITY CONTEXT
Dear participant,
Thank you for agreeing to participate in the research study, titled “Investigating attitudes of
Undergraduate students towards standard and Pakistani English in a Pakistani University context”. Your
input is valuable and will help in understanding impact of attitudes in use of English. The following
questionnaire is designed to gather information about your experiences and perceptions. Please answer the
questions honestly and feel free to clarify any doubts.
Thank you again for your participation.
Name _____________ Age …….... Native language …...
Gender ______________ Academic year and Discipline ………
SA= Strongly Agree A= Agree U= uncertain SD= strongly disagree D= Disagree
Sr Statements SA SD
# A U D
01 Do you enjoy speaking English?
02 When you talk about English accent you talk about standard English accent ?
03 Do you feel good when someone thought your accent is like standard speaker
accent?
04 Occasionally, I deliberately try to sound like a native speaker.
05 To learn standard accent is a sign that you have learnt English language
06 Do you feel inferiority complex when you converse in a foreign environment?
07 Do you like to pay extra attention to learn standard accent?
08 British or American English is standard.
09 Do you think Standard English accent is required for international
comprehensibility?
10 You expect from your teachers to teach you with standard English accent
11 Speaking Standard English is prestigious.
12 It is easy to understand British or American English.
13 We learn English to understand British or American culture.
14 Do you think Pakistani English is a different variety ?
15 I can understand English spoken by Pakistani English language speakers better
than English native speakers
16 Pakistani English expresses our personal, ethnic, social and national identities.
17 Pakistani English is a stable variety that indexes a distinct Pakistani identity.
18 Each variety of English, including Pakistani English is standard on its own.
19 Pakistani English (our own variety of English) is appropriate to use in our context
20 I speak Pakistani variety of English. (Pakistani English)
21 I prefer to use Pakistani English in speaking and writing.
22 Pakistani variety of English should be developed and standardized.
23 Pakistani variety of English needs to be codified (e.g. dictionaries, grammars).
You can accurately recognize the difference between native accent and non native
accent .
24 Distinct features of Pakistani English (e.g. phonological, grammatical, semantic,
discourse) are regarded as errors.
25 Do you think there are societal pressures regarding accent?
26 It is not essential to learn accents because it takes away one’s identity and origin.
27 Do you think to learn accent is most important than comprehension of a subject?
28 Accurate accent is important than learning structures since language is mainly
used for communication.
29 When you have problems in communicating English it is more likely because of
grammatical problems than to accent.
30 Accents are not problematic as long as they do not hinder communication.
31 Do you like to have Standard English Speaker as a teacher as compared to PE
speaker?
32 Do you think Pakistani English is near to Standard English?
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