Malaysian ESL students` syntactic accuracy in the usage of English modal verbs in argumentative writing.

• Main Authors: Mukundan, Jayakaran, Saadullah, Khairil Anuar, Ismail, Razalina, Jusoh Zasenawi, Nur Hairunnisa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2013
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29092/1/Malaysian%20ESL%20students.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29092/; http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/elt/issue/view/950

This research studied the use of modals in argumentative written tasks by Form 5 Malaysian secondary school ESL students. The aim of this study was to examine the use of English modals at the syntactic level from data presented in the MCSAW Corpus. The research design comprised a qualitative techniq...