Modal Sequences in Chinese Senior School Students’ English Compositions
- DOI
- 10.2991/icssr-13.2013.106How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- modal sequence;overuse and underuse; deontic and epistemic modality; Chinese senior school students
- Abstract
This study examines the characteristics of modal sequences used in ST2 from CLEC ,with A Level from LOCNESS as a reference corpus. Main findings reveals: Firstly, modal sequences led by can, will and must are overused while those constructed by could, would and should are underused. Secondly, Chinese senior school students tend to overuse personal pronouns as subjects before modal verbs,and overuse verbs with unmarked aspect and voice after , making it rather difficult for students to express relatively complex modal meaning. Consequently, they overuse deontic modality and underuse epistemic modality , making their English comparatively strong on narrative and short on evaluation of their statements.
- Copyright
- © 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Shaoyun Long PY - 2013/07 DA - 2013/07 TI - Modal Sequences in Chinese Senior School Students’ English Compositions BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Science and Social Research (ICSSR 2013) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 454 EP - 457 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icssr-13.2013.106 DO - 10.2991/icssr-13.2013.106 ID - Long2013/07 ER -