Modal auxiliary verbs used in Malaysian English language secondary school textbooks

Due to the reported difficulties of Malaysian learners in terms of syntactic and semantic functions of modal auxiliary verbs in English, this research investigated 1) the ways in which nine modal auxiliaries are introduced and presented in texts and exercises, 2) modal verb phrase structures, 3) mo...

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Main Author:	Khojasteh, Laleh
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	English language - Textbooks for foreign speakers English language - Auxiliary verbs English language - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Malaysia
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/32205/1/FPP%202012%2015R.pdf

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