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Khojasteh, Laleh; Kafipour, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2012
Using corpus approach, a growing number of researchers blamed textbooks for neglecting important information on the use of grammatical structures in natural English. Likewise, the prescribed Malaysian English textbooks used in schools are reportedly prepared through a process of material development that involves intuition. Hence, a corpus-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
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Jishvithaa, Joanna M.; Tabitha, M.; Kalajahi, Seyed Ali Rezvani – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
This research paper aims to explore the usage of the English Auxiliary "Be" Present Tense Verb, using corpus based method among Malaysian form 4 and form 5 students. This study is conducted by identifying and classifying the types of errors in the Auxiliary "Be" Present Tense verb in students' compositions from the MCSAW corpus…
Descriptors: Morphemes, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Second Language Learning
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Kader, Mohamed Ismail bin Abdul; Begi, Neda; Vaseghi, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study attempts to examine the use of English modals in terms of their frequency and functions. For this purpose, Form 4 and College students' argumentative compositions were extracted from the Malaysian Corpus of Students' Argumentative Writing (MCSAW). In order to analyze the data, this study employed discourse analysis and some descriptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students