Modal Auxiliaries and Their Semantic Functions Used by Advanced EFL Learners

Autor/inn/en	Torabiardakani, Najmeh; Khojasteh, Laleh; Shokrpour, Nasrin
Titel	Modal Auxiliaries and Their Semantic Functions Used by Advanced EFL Learners
Quelle	In: Acta Didactica Napocensia, 8 (2015) 2, S.51-60 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2065-1430
Schlagwörter	Semantics; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Verbs; Grammar; Foreign Countries; Language Usage; Advanced Students; Computer Software; Computational Linguistics; Writing (Composition); Second Language Instruction; Teaching Methods; Discourse Analysis; Qualitative Research; Iran + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Semantik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Grammatik; Ausland; Sprachgebrauch; Fortgeschrittener; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Schreibübung; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Diskursanalyse; Qualitative Forschung
Abstract	Since modal auxiliary verbs have been proved to be one of the most troublesome grammatical structures in English, the researchers of this study decided to do an analysis on the ways in which advanced EFL Iranian students use modal auxiliaries focusing specially on nine modals' semantic functions. Consequently, was conducted based on the following object: To investigate the semantic functions depicted by modals used by advanced adult EFL learners of English. To do this, a learner-corpus was constructed with 136 compositions written by our learners and then Wordsmith Tool was used to analyze this computerized data. The results of this study show that some meanings are overly used (like "ability" meaning of can) and some of them are not really used by our learners like the "possibility" meanings of can and could. At the end, some pedagogical suggestions have been made to improve this situation. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Babes-Bolyai University. Kogainiceanu 1, Cluj-Napoca, 400084 Romania. e-mail: submit_adn@yahoo.com; Web site: http://adn.teaching.ro
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01