LIST OF TABLES

TABLE 1		The gradual growth in the popularity and importance of English in Finnish society from the 1920s to the early 2000s
TABLE 2		Previous survey studies on the role of and attitudes to English
TABLE 3		The stages in the data collection and the number of respondents in each stage (2007–2008)
TABLE 4		The gender distribution
TABLE 5		The age distribution
TABLE 6		The residential distribution
TABLE 7		The residential distribution of during childhood and adolescence
TABLE 8		The educational distribution
TABLE 9		The occupation distribution
TABLE 10		The distribution of the monthly net income per household
TABLE 11		The distribution for the statements (a)–(f) in question 23
TABLE 12		A society divided by knowledge and use of English