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Publication details [#46041]

Alimi, Modoupe M. 2007. English Articles and Modals in the Writing of Some Batswana Students. Language, Culture and Curriculum 20 (3) : 209–222.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

article | foreign language teaching | modal verb | syntactic structure

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

Drawing on written documents from Botswana English foreign language university students, this paper discusses the implications of emerging syntactic patterns in students' English articles' and modals' use for English language instruction.