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Narinasamy, Ilhamanggai; Mukundan, Jayakaran; Nimehchisalem, Vahid – English Language Teaching, 2013
Studies on ESL/EFL learners' use of the progressives reveal that it is one of the grammatical aspects most problematic to them. This paper presents the results of a study on the use of progressives among Year 5, Form 1 and Form 4 Malaysian ESL learners' compositions using the English of Malaysian School Students (EMAS) corpus. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mukundan, Jayakaran; Roslim, Norwati – English Language Teaching, 2009
This article presents a corpus-based investigation on English prepositions which are presented in three English language textbooks used by lower secondary schools in Malaysia. The aims were to find out the distributions of prepositions, its frequency order in comparison with the British National Corpus (BNC) and the differences in terms of their…
Descriptors: Textbooks, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mukundan, Jayakaran; bin Saadullah, Khairil Anuar; binti Ismail, Razalina; binti Jusoh Zasenawi, Nur Hairunnisa – English Language Teaching, 2013
This research studied the use of modals in argumentative written tasks by Form 5 Malaysian secondary school ESL students. The aim of this study was to examine the use of English modals at the syntactic level from data presented in the MCSAW Corpus. The research design comprised a qualitative technique through discourse analysis aided by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning