If only it were true: the problem with the four conditionals  

Oleh:

Jones, Christian N. ; Waller, Daniel

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: ELT Journal = English Language Teaching Journal (Full Text) vol. 65 no. 1 (Jan. 2011), page 24-32 .
Topik: ELT; conditionals
Fulltext: 2011.1.24.full.pdf (96.84KB)

Isi artikel

The traditional division of conditionals into four main types (zero, ?rst, second, and third) has long been called into question. Unfortunately, the awareness that this description does not re?ect conditional patterns in actual usage has not generally been re?ected in EFL coursebooks. This article re-examines the arguments for a description of conditional patterns which re?ects actual usage and uses corpus data to demonstrate the kind of patterns in frequent use. It then suggests two teaching approaches that may help teachers to tackle a variety of conditional patterns in the classroom.

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