Arab EFL Learners’ Acquisition of Modals

• Authors: Aziz Thabit Saeed
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper investigates Arab EFL learners’ acquisition of modal verbs. The study used a questionnaire, which comprises two versions, testing students’ mastery of modals at the levels of both recognition and production. The questionnaire was distributed to 50 English major university students who had studied English for 12-14 years and who had scored 500 or more on the TOEFL. The findings of the study show that the overall performance of the subjects in the study was quite low. The study established a hierarchy of difficulty and identified the major causes of difficulty in the use of modals.

Keywords

EN

Acquisition; modals; EFL Arab learners

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 7
• Pages: 75-98

Dates

published

2009-12-23

Contributors

author

Aziz Thabit Saeed

• University of Sharjah

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10015-009-0006-5