The Use of Modal Verb in English Writing: Corpus Views

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10.2991/emcm-15.2016.63How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Learner Corpus; English writing; Modal verb;EFL context

Abstract

This study analyzes the use of modal verb based on the corpus of Chinese English learners. The purpose of the study is to investigate the situation of modal verb used by English majors in China in their writing. Through the application of advanced software, this study reaches the results that the frequency of the English majors using modal verb is phased and associated with students’ language competence, but differs greatly. However, the students who have low level of English tend to use the modal verb.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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