ESL LEARNERS' USE OF ENGLISH MODALS IN NARRATIVE COMPOSITIONS: SYNTATIC AND SEMANTIC ACCURACY

This study investigated use of modals in two written tasks by Form 4 Malaysian secondary school ESL learners. The aim was to investigate the use of English modals at the syntactic and semantic levels from data made available by the EMAS Corpus. The research design comprised a qualitative technique t...

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Main Authors: Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Umi Kalthom Abd. Manaf, Omid Akbari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN) 2008-08-01
Series:TEFLIN Journal
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Online Access:https://journal.teflin.org/index.php/journal/article/view/104