Lexical and Grammatical Means of Expressing Modality in the German Language as one of the Aspects of Teaching a Foreign Language while Training Post-Graduate Students

Ponomaryova, Liliya; Osadcha, Elena

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Lexical and Grammatical Means of Expressing Modality in the German Language as one of the Aspects of Teaching a Foreign Language while Training Post-Graduate Students

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Abstract:

The aim of the article is to analyze lexical and grammatical means of expressing modality in the literature on technical sciences in German and the ways of their translating. Basing on the aim of the research, it is necessary to solve the following problems: 1) to distinguish the means of expressing modality in the literature on technical sciences; 2) to define the role of lexical and grammatical means of expressing modality in a special test; 3) to identify the means of expressing modality which are the most difficult to translate and to understand in the test; 4) to give some recommendations as to developing and improving the skills of translating and using the means of expressing modality in speech.

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International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (Volume 64)

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166-171

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https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.64.166

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L. Ponomaryova and E. Osadcha, "Lexical and Grammatical Means of Expressing Modality in the German Language as one of the Aspects of Teaching a Foreign Language while Training Post-Graduate Students", International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, Vol. 64, pp. 166-171, 2015

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November 2015

Authors:

Liliya Ponomaryova, Elena Osadcha

Keywords:

Aspects of Modal Attitude, Means of Expressing Modality, Modality, Post-Graduate Students, Ways of Translating

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