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To all of my dearest Chinese Malaysian friends (CMs), Many thanks for your co-operation and willingness to take part in my small-scale study on Malaysian English (ME). This questionnaire is distributed to seek your precious help with investigating what attitudes you have towards ME as a non-native variety of English. Many researchers in this area have described and commented on ME, but more important, are the views of Malaysians themselves. Although there are three major ethnic groups in Malaysia, I am only able to focus on the Chinese group, to find out about attitudes towards ME. Your kind participation, response and feedback will be hugely beneficial to me in order to enable me to carry out an investigation into the attitudes of Chinese Malaysians (CMs) towards Malaysian English (ME) as a non-native variety of English. All the information that you provide will be used confidentially and only be used for academic purposes. Your identity will also be kept anonymous. Thank you! Truly yours, Eve G. M. Ong Summer, Portsmouth, 2007 Section A: General Information 1. What is your gender? 2. What age range are you in? 3. Which state of Malaysia are you from? (for example Kuala Lumpur? Johor? Sabah? Please indicate accordingly) Are you from a rural or urban area? 4. What is your occupation? Section B: Educational Background 1. What is your present educational level? 2. What was the medium of instruction while you were in primary school? 3. What was the medium of instruction while you were in secondary school? 4. What was the medium of instruction while you were at tertiary level, such as college, university? Section C: 1. Your major language choice (s) during daily conversations (you can tick more than one). 2. Please specify your choice from the varieties of Chinese (you can tick more than one). 3. Have you ever lived or studied abroad? For how many years have you lived or studied abroad? In which country? 4. How would you regard English? Section D: Section E: In this section, each word in italics is typically regarded as ME. To what extent do you think the use of each is acceptable? -The End- Thank you for your co-operation! Please click the submit survey button to end the questionnaire. |