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Language use and attitudes survey
Thank you for your interest in this survey. The survey is a part of a PhD dissertation currently being conducted at the University of Helsinki by doctoral student Laura Hekanaho. The purpose of this research project is to study language use and attitudes. If you wish to know more about the study, or have any questions regarding the survey, please contact me at laura.hekanaho@helsinki.fi. This research project has been approved by the ethical review board of the University of Helsinki.
This survey will be held online until February 28th 2017 (extended).
You are welcome to participate in this survey if you are over 18 years old and a) a native speaker of English (any variety) or b) a native Finnish or Swedish speaker who speaks English fluently. If you have taken part in a pilot for this survey, please do not participate again.
The survey consists of 7 parts and will take approximately 15-30 minutes to fill in, depending on your own input. On the first page you will be asked to give information about your background (e.g. gender, education, age), and the rest of the survey concentrates on language use and attitudes (parts 1-7). Please notice that once you have moved on from one part to another, you cannot go back.
The data will be used for research purposes. The data will be archived after this study has been conducted and may be used for other research purposes as well.
The responses to this survey are collected anonymously (e.g. no directly identifiable information is collected and your IP will not be visible to the researcher). All information will be handled confidentially. Please take into account, however, that with any information shared online there is always a chance of information leakage due to hacking etc.
Participation is voluntary. You may quit the survey at any time, in which case your answers to parts 1 through 7 will not be used in the analysis. Your background information may still be used to identify what demographic groups dropped out of the survey. If you want to completely remove your answers from the study or you have already submitted your answers and wish to withdraw from the study, you may do so within 3 weeks of your submission by contacting me at laura.hekanaho@helsinki.fi. Please take into account that since no contact information is required, in order to delete your responses, your submission will have to be identifiable. If you think you might want to withdraw later on, please copy and save your answer to part 1 (after the background information) on your computer; this can be later used to identify your submission along with the background information you are asked to provide.
Finally, your participation is highly appreciated, but no compensation is offered.
Please notice that if you leave the survey form inactive for more than 45 minutes, you will get a pop-up reminder about the unfinished survey and if you do not react to it within 15 minutes the survey form might fail to save your submission. There is no possibility to save and continue your submission later on, either.
If you agree to the aforementioned, please tick the box below and then press ‘next’. If you do not agree, please exit the survey by either closing your browser or clicking the ‘exit survey’ button in the top-right corner of this page.
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