English Grammar Case Study

6.1: Do teenagers or elders possess better knowledge of English grammar?

By studying the results of the collected data, one can see a clear difference in the knowledge of English grammar between teenagers and elders. While the teenagers got a average of 75,2% correct answers and a median of 76,2% correct answers, the elders only got a average of 49,5% correct answers and a median of 52,4% correct answers, which is 25,7% less correct answers on the average and 23,8% less correct answers on the median.

6.2: What does this difference in the two groups’ knowledge of English grammar depend on?

While studying the results on the first part of the survey, which asked the participants how they come in contact with the English language, a possible

This could be a great explanation to why the results of the English quiz gave the results that they did. Also, if looking back at the background (2.1) on page 3, all of the sources agree that children nowadays come in contact with the English language more than before, which strengthens the results that teenagers have got better knowledge of English grammar than the elders, who were not surrounded by the English language in the same way when they were younger. For example, when the elders were younger technique was not as developed as it is today, and therefore the elders never got the same chance of experiencing the English world the same way as the teenagers can do today. The previous research (2.2) on page 3-4 also strengthened the results as two of the studies showed that children/teenagers who play on the computer more, get a better grade in English. The computer is only one example of technique that is more developed and more used today than earlier on, and in the same way as computer gaming seemed to help teenagers develop a better English language knowledge, watching English movies, listening to English music, reading English books, being on social media and searching English sites online should do the