Modal Sequences in Chinese Senior School StudentsEnglish Compositions

摘要：

　　This study examines the characteristics of modal sequences used in ST2 from CLEC ,with A Level from LOCNESS as a reference corpus.Main findings reveals: Firstly, modal sequences led by can, will and must are overused while those constructed by could, would and should are underused.Secondly, Chinese senior school students tend to overuse personal pronouns as subjects before modal verbs,and overuse verbs with unmarked aspect and voice after , making it rather difficult for students to express relatively complex modal meaning.Consequently, they overuse deontic modality and underuse epistemic modality, making their English comparatively strong on narrative and short on evaluation of their statements.

关键词： modal sequence overuse and underuse deontic and epistemic modality Chinese senior school students

作者: LONG Shaoyun

作者单位: Foreign Languages College,Jiangxi Normal University Nanchang,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2013 2nd International Conference on Science and Social Research (2013年第二届科学与社会研究国际会议)(ICSSR2013)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 459-462

在线出版日期: 2013-07-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）