{"id":1458,"date":"2024-01-22T04:22:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T04:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2024-01-22T04:45:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T04:45:18","slug":"grammar-badgers-student-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/grammar-badgers-student-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Grammar Badgers Student Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, just in time for the beginning of the new semester, I updated the <a href=\"https:\/\/grammarbadgers.wordpress.com\/\">Grammar Badgers<\/a> website with student projects from the fall, including a survey-based one, created by Katalina, Carly, Maggie, Haru, and Naamon.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Over the course of the semester, our team created and conducted a survey about grammar usage, <\/i><i>specifically from university students. We were interested in how certain constructions and uses <\/i><i>of language are deemed \u201ccorrect\u201d or \u201cincorrect\u201d. Are people subconsciously controlled by how <\/i><i>they were taught what the \u201cright\u201d ways were in prior education, or do they not have a preference <\/i><i>as a result of language evolution? <\/i><i>Inspired by the Mittins et al. (1970) language usage polls and the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bridgingtheunbridgeable.com\/\">Bridging the Unbridgeable<\/a>\u201d <\/i><i>revisitation of these surveys, we gathered survey responses from mostly (not all) UW-Madison <\/i><i>community members regarding their perception of what language is considered appropriate and <\/i><i>in which registers (e.g. writing versus speech). This project aimed to investigate whether there <\/i><i>are relationships between certain aspects of participants\u2019 backgrounds and their perceptions of <\/i><i>grammatical standards. More specifically, we wanted to understand if the dimensions of age and <\/i><i>time spent on social media (self-assessed at the level of hours per week) affect participants\u2019 <\/i><i>perceptions of the usage of grammatical constructions in different registers.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what they found (based on 73 completed surveys):<\/p>\n<div class=\" responsive-embed widescreen uw-oembed-video-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grammar Badgers Attitude Survey\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vd8cM6MkEdE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, just in time for the beginning of the new semester, I updated the Grammar Badgers website with student projects from the fall, including a survey-based one, created by Katalina, Carly, Maggie, Haru, and Naamon. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,12],"tags":[41,14,17,13],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-badgers","category-teaching","tag-bad-grammar","tag-grammar-badgers","tag-prescriptivism","tag-student-presentation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}