Expressing (Un)certainty through Modal Verbs in Advance Fee Fraud Emails

Nigeria Tackles Advance Fee Fraud

Towards a Categorization of Scambaiting Strategies against Online Advance Fee Fraud

Scambaiters are individuals in online information communities specializing in identifying, documenting and reporting actions of so-called ’419 scammers’. A qualitative research approach was applied to two active scambaiting communities 419eater.com and thescambaiter.com. Content analysis of several discussions and the examination of interviews from the web radio ’Area 419: Scambaiting Radio’ re...

Teaching Modal Verbs: Task-based vs. traditional approaches

Abstract Task-based language teaching is considered an effective way to achieve a harmony between grammar and communication. The present study investigates two different ways of teaching modal verbs: task-based versus traditional approaches. To this purpose, an Oxford Placement Test was administered to select 40 homogeneous participants out of a larger population who took this test. The selecte...

Fee-for-Disservice: medicare fraud in the home healthcare industry.

Learning English Auxiliary Modal Verbs by Iranian Children

Modal verbs in English are challenging to learn by speakers of other languages. The purpose of thiswas to shed light on the use of gesture in learning English modal verbs by Persian-speaking children.To achieve this, 60 elementary Iranian learners, studying at some institutes in Karaj took part in thisstudy. The participants were randomly put into one experimental group and one control group. T...