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- Title
Teaching the English Modal Perfects.
- Authors
Bowen, J. Donald; McCreary, Carol Fillips
- Abstract
The article focuses on the teaching of modal auxiliary verbs to English as a second language (ESL) students. Concepts related to the English modal system have been discussed in various teaching materials. ESL students face several difficulties in understanding the use of modals. This is mainly because of the complexity of the modal system. Most teaching materials provide incomplete descriptions about the range of syntactic and semantic restrictions that apply to various modal auxiliaries. ESL teachers should teach students that modals can have several meanings. The structural forms and the semantics of modals might not correlate with each other. Usually, ESL students assume that each meaning of a simple modal can be associated with various tense forms. ESL students should understand patterns of perfectibility in English language sentences.
- Subjects
ENGLISH auxiliary verbs; ENGLISH as a foreign language; AUXILIARIES (Grammar); FOREIGN language education; TENSE in the English language; TENSE (Grammar); TEACHING aids; LANGUAGE teachers; LANGUAGE arts
- Publication
TESOL Quarterly, 1977, Vol 11, Issue 3, p283
- ISSN
0039-8322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3586025