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Text 10A1-I
There is no doubt that we are living in times of great change. Population mobility continues throughout the world at an all-time high in human history, bringing extensive cross-cultural contact among diverse language and cultural groups. Predictions focus on an increasingly interconnected world, with global travel and instant international communications available to more and more people. Businesses and professions seek employees fluent in more than one language, to participate in the international marketplace as well as to serve growing ethnolinguistic minorities living within each community. Employers increasingly want their employees to be interculturally competent. They want them to be skilful negotiators in increasingly intercultural work situations.
Change is not exclusive or selective in terms of the sectors of society which it affects. Industry, health, politics and business are affected, but also education. In different parts of Europe, just as elsewhere in the world, the presence of ethnic and linguistic minority children in schools is becoming an everyday phenomenon. Policy makers include intercultural objectives in curricula, and teachers find themselves faced with the challenge of promoting the acquisition of intercultural competence through their teaching. This is true for teachers of a diversity of subjects. It is definitely true for teachers of foreign languages. Foreign language education is, by definition, intercultural. Bringing a foreign language to the classroom means connecting learners to a world that is culturally different from their own. Therefore, all foreign language educators are now expected to exploit this potential and promote the acquisition of intercultural competence in their learners. The objective of language learning is no longer defined in terms of the acquisition of communicative competence in a foreign language. Teachers are now required to teach intercultural communicative competence.
Lies Sercu. Teaching foreign languages in an intercultural world. In: Lies Sercu et al. Foreign language teachers and intercultural competence: an international investigation. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2005 (adapted)
“In this context, English is no longer treated as a foreign language, but as a lingua franca of global communication, used by speakers worldwide with different linguistic and cultural repertoires.”
(Bombinhas, 2024, p. 188. Diretrizes Curriculares da Educação Básica da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Bombinhas.)
Based on this excerpt and on contemporary principles of English Language Teaching, choose the correct alternative.
“Professor House calls for continuing research on ELF in Europe and elsewhere, but concludes that it is ‘not, for the present time, a threat to multilingualism’.”
With respect to the use of pronouns and prepositional expressions in the excerpt, choose the correct alternative.
Column A
1) a threat
2) present-day practices
3) their own specific communicative, cultural and pragmatic competencies
4) an open mindset
Column B
(__) Noun phrase with indefinite article + abstract noun
(__) Noun phrase expressing possession
(__) Noun phrase with adjective modifying a compound noun
(__) Noun phrase formed by adjective + noun
Choose the correct sequence.
“The field of Second Language Acquisition has also been questioned with regard to its dependence on native speaker standards as the measuring rod that determines successful learning.”
The choice of the passive voice in the excerpt serves to:
“The realization that there are today more nonnative speakers than native speakers of English in the world […] has led to the rethinking of present-day practices in teaching…”
Mark the statements as True (T) or False (F).
(__) The structure there are is used to introduce the existence of a situation rather than to identify a specific agent.
(__) The expression there are today functions as a stylistic device to emphasize the current relevance of the situation described.
(__) Replacing there are with they are would preserve the same meaning and discourse function.
(__) The use of there to be is common in academic writing to present factual information impersonally.
Choose the correct alternative.
“The winds of change may indeed be beneficial for some and a threat to others.”
Analyze the statements.
I) The modal verb “may” expresses possibility rather than certainty.
II) The adverb “indeed” reinforces the speaker’s full commitment to the truth of the statement.
III) The modal construction reflects cautious and evaluative language typical of academic argumentation.
Choose the correct alternative.
“This line of research presents serious questions for Applied Linguistics (AL) and English Language Teaching (ELT) that will, if implemented, entail major changes in that endeavor.”
The verb forms used in the segment “will, if implemented, entail” indicate that:
“The appearance of Lingua Franca English has contributed to rethinking the role of language assessment and testing […]”
Mark the statements as True (T) or False (F).
(__) The verb form “has contributed” is in the Present Perfect and emphasizes the impact of a past development on current discussions.
(__) The use of the Present Perfect suggests that the contribution is still relevant at the present time.
(__) Replacing “has contributed” with “contributed” would preserve exactly the same meaning in this context.
(__) The verb tense choice is consistent with academic discourse that focuses on ongoing effects rather than finished events.
Choose the correct alternative.
“This line of research presented serious questions for Applied Linguistics (AL) and English Language Teaching (ELT) that, if implemented, would entail major changes in that endeavor.”
The use of verb tenses in “presented” and “would entail” indicates that:
“The realization that there are today more nonnative speakers than native speakers of English in the world […] has led to the rethinking of present-day practices in teaching, teacher preparation, and the writing of textbooks.”
The verb form “has led” is used in this context because it:
“She will meet him later (Part 1), since she said she enjoyed the date yesterday (Part 2).”
(__)Modal verbs are always followed by the base form of the main verb (without "to"), and they do not change their form according to the subject.
(__)The modal verb "must" can be used to express a strong obligation or a logical deduction based on certain evidence in the present.
(__)"Should" is the most appropriate modal verb to ask for a formal permission in a professional environment, replacing the use of "can" or "may."
(__)The negative form of "can" in the past tense is "could not" or "couldn't," which can indicate both a lack of ability or a lack of permission in the past.
After analyzing the statements, choose the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence, from top to bottom:
I.The Present Perfect is used to describe actions that happened at an unspecified time in the past or that have a connection with the present moment.
II.The Future with "going to" is typically used for spontaneous decisions made at the exact moment of speaking, without any prior plan or evidence.
III.The Past Continuous is used to describe an action that was in progress at a specific time in the past, often interrupted by another event.
Choose the alternative that presents the CORRECT statement(s):
I.The development of critical reading skills involves the student's ability to identify biases, the author's intentions, and the socio-historical context of the text.
II. Written production should be approached as a process-oriented activity, involving stages such as planning, drafting, revising, and rewriting according to the proposed text genre.
III. Listening is a passive process of phonetic decoding that does not require the use of prior knowledge or inferencing by the learner.
Choose the alternative that presents the CORRECT statement(s):
(__)Regular verbs form their past tense by adding the suffix "-ed" to the base form, following specific spelling rules for verbs ending in "-y" or consonant-vowel-consonant.
(__)Irregular verbs follow a predictable pattern of vowel mutation, allowing the speaker to determine the past form of any unknown verb by analogy with the verb "to go."
(__)Some irregular verbs have the same form for the infinitive, the simple past, and the past participle, such as the verbs "put," "cut," and "set."
(__)The past tense of the verb "to read" is spelled differently from the present tense to indicate the change in pronunciation from /ri:d/ to /red/ in formal registers.
After analyzing the statements, choose the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom: