Modal verbs in English essays written by Czech secondary-school students

Authors

SLÁDKOVÁ Věra

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Functional plurality of language in contextualised discourse
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Keywords central modals; quasi-modals; lexical verbs; learner corpus; error patterns
Description This paper presents the findings of frequency analysis of modal verbs and their complementation in 390 English school-leaving essays written by Czech secondary-school students in a high-stakes exam aimed at B1 CEFR level which constitute a learner corpus CZEMATELC 2017. The study reveals a very high proportion of correct complementation patterns, but predominantly with lexical verbs at A1 and A2 CEFR levels while complementation by past-tense forms of lexical verbs and absence of complementation are the most frequent errors.
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