Modals in Chinese Senior High School Students’ Written English

DOI

10.2991/icemss.2013.27How to use a DOI?

Keywords

modals, overuse and underuse, Chinese senior high school students

Abstract

This study examines the characteristics of modal verbs used in ST2 from CLEC.2.Methods: keyness analysis: frequency of modal verbs used in ST2 from CLEC are unusually high in comparison with those in A Level from LOCNESS as a reference corpus, producing keywords. 3.Results: only the modal verb must which are introduced early in textbooks is overused by Chinese senior high students while would ,could ,should, will, can that are introduced comparatively late are underused,which shows that Chinese senior high students seldom use these modal verbs bearing the euphemistic meaning. And the paper gives some interpretations for such phenomena .

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© 2013, 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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TI  - Modals in Chinese Senior High School Students’ Written English
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