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Govindarajoo, Mallika Vasugi; Chin Hui, Chow; A Aziz, Siti Farhah – Asian Journal of University Education, 2022
The purpose of this research was to identify the common errors made in English writing by Malaysian Chinese primary year 6 ESL students and to determine the extent of the influence of the first language, Mandarin in ESL writing. The Mandarin language uses a logographic writing system while the English language is written in alphabetic scripts. The…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), 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