A Pedagogic Corpus Analysis: Modal Auxiliary Verbs in Malaysian English Textbooks

Autor/inn/en	Khojasteh, Laleh; Mukundan, Jayakaran
Titel	A Pedagogic Corpus Analysis: Modal Auxiliary Verbs in Malaysian English Textbooks
Quelle	In: Journal on English Language Teaching, 1 (2011) 2, S.45-55 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2231-3338
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Textbooks; Computational Linguistics; Grammar; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Verbs; Second Language Instruction; Content Analysis; Language Usage; Material Development; Intuition; Teaching Methods; Malaysia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Grammatik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Inhaltsanalyse; Sprachgebrauch; Lehrmaterialentwicklung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Using corpus approach, over the past two decades, a growing number of researchers started to blame textbooks for neglecting important information on the use of grammatical structures in real language use and provided ample information about the mismatch between language used in textbooks and real language in use. Likewise, the prescribed Malaysian English textbooks used in schools are reportedly prepared through a process of material development that involves intuition and assumption. Hence, a corpus-based study was adopted here to allow the researchers to identify modal auxiliary verbs' order and ranking in both whole text-types and spoken text-type of five Malaysian English language textbooks. This study has revealed that for almost all of the modal auxiliaries, there is a discrepancy between frequency order in the textbook corpus and the three major reference corpora. The findings of this study also show that the currently used pedagogical language in Malaysian textbooks is mainly based on written rather than spoken English. This study does not suggest making drastic changes in the Malaysian textbooks in order to create a textbook that mirrors exactly the language used by native speakers. However, the most salient facts reflected from natural language corpora should not be ignored in the textbooks. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	i-manager Publications. 3-343 Hill View, Town Railway Nagar, Nagercoil 629001, Tamil Nadu, India. Tel: +91-4652-276675; e-mail: info@imanagerpublications.com; Web site: http://www.imanagerpublications.com
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01