An Investigation of Students’ Grammatical Ability in an International University Branch Campus

Abstract

An online survey was conducted on an international branch campus of a UK university in order to investigate whether the amount of time students had spent at the campus or the amount of previous schooling in English had an effect on their ability to perceive grammatically correct English. The students were asked whether 30 sentences were correct. These were broken down into incorrect simple and complex sentences as well as correct sentences. The results were then analysed using basic statistical methods. It was found that neither of these variables had a large effect on the students’ grammatical ability