The results from the study confirmed that a vast majority of the pupils would
choose and felt most familiar with AmE vocabulary since 74% chose AmE words
in Part 1 and 81% did so in Part 2. The variety that seemed to have the higher
status was AmE and most pupils thought that this variety sounded most natural
and was the easiest to understand. Swedish pupils are influenced by and exposed
to the language in the media, principally AmE, and this is one possible
explanation to the result.
The comparison between the gend