Interview Transcript
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Name:
Age: 21
Interviewer: Hi, so I’m going to ask you a few questions about yourself and your perception of what English is and how you interpret the different English languages around the world. How it effects you both emotionally and culturally and also cognitively. This will help me to understand the different views that certain individuals have on themselves as English speakers and how they are effected and also to learn how much they know about the world as a whole in the sense of English. So you can start by telling me a few things about yourself. Where do you come from originally?
Interviewee: Yes that’s fine. I am sri Lankan. My parents are originially from srilanka but we migrated here when I was 7 years old.
Interviewer: At what age did you learn to speak English?
Interviewee: I went to a Sinhalese school in srilanka. It was important back in those days that all children learnt English…it was the cool language if you may. So my mum enrolled me and my sister to this elocution class. We went for lessons every week after school. I remember being taught how to say the vowels, the teacher told me to shape my mouth in a certain way to help the sound come out right. I was also enrolled into a school called British council. It was a separate school for English. They taught nursery rhymes and I remember learning the hockey pockey. My mum made sure we went to a few classes to keep up with English. She thought it might come in handy one day and it did.
Interviewer: That’s good. So do you think learning English at a young age helped you in many ways?
Interviewee: Yes actually. Im very thankful that my parents did all that when I was younger. I wouldn’t have known how much itll help till now. Things are easier to remember and even at university its easier to understand things.
Interviewer: What language do you speak at home? With your family?
Interviewee: I speak in singlish at home.
Interviewer: what is singlish?
Interviewee: Its
Name:
Age: 21
Interviewer: Hi, so I’m going to ask you a few questions about yourself and your perception of what English is and how you interpret the different English languages around the world. How it effects you both emotionally and culturally and also cognitively. This will help me to understand the different views that certain individuals have on themselves as English speakers and how they are effected and also to learn how much they know about the world as a whole in the sense of English. So you can start by telling me a few things about yourself. Where do you come from originally?
Interviewee: Yes that’s fine. I am sri Lankan. My parents are originially from srilanka but we migrated here when I was 7 years old.
Interviewer: At what age did you learn to speak English?
Interviewee: I went to a Sinhalese school in srilanka. It was important back in those days that all children learnt English…it was the cool language if you may. So my mum enrolled me and my sister to this elocution class. We went for lessons every week after school. I remember being taught how to say the vowels, the teacher told me to shape my mouth in a certain way to help the sound come out right. I was also enrolled into a school called British council. It was a separate school for English. They taught nursery rhymes and I remember learning the hockey pockey. My mum made sure we went to a few classes to keep up with English. She thought it might come in handy one day and it did.
Interviewer: That’s good. So do you think learning English at a young age helped you in many ways?
Interviewee: Yes actually. Im very thankful that my parents did all that when I was younger. I wouldn’t have known how much itll help till now. Things are easier to remember and even at university its easier to understand things.
Interviewer: What language do you speak at home? With your family?
Interviewee: I speak in singlish at home.
Interviewer: what is singlish?
Interviewee: Its