Corpus Linguistics, the World Wide Web, and English Language Teaching

This article explores how the Web can serve as a resource for teaching modality in English to prospective teachers of ESL, EFL and ESP. The first section demonstrates how texts taken from two different registers on the Web can be used to teach epistemic modality (e.g. how modal verbs such as may and...

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Main Author: Charles F. Meyer
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2006-10-01
Series:Ibérica
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Online Access:http://www.aelfe.org/documents/02-Meyer.pdf