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   According to Savignon and Sysoyev (2005), “cultures are never static” (p. 36). Certainly, there are aspects of culture that do not change or change at a slower rate, such as values, norms, and historical heritage (Savignon & Sysoyev, 2005), but teachers need “to recognize the limits of this static nature and keep in mind that culture, as well as language, is constantly changing, it is in flux (Lange, 1999). The dynamic nature of culture brings a number of challenges and concerns for teachers trying to choose relevant teaching materials and activities (Savignon & Sysoyev, 2005). While culture is often depicted as static in textbooks, the digital media, authentic products and texts provide a more dynamic environment.

   Foreign language instructors are beginning to incorporate more movies in the FL classroom as “an accessible window” (Bueno, 2009, p. 319) to the target culture through “combined effects of images, sounds, camera, plots and dialogue” (Stephens, 2001, p. 2). The teachers’ major task is to bring both language and culture into students’ social reality (Lange, 1999), in order to make sure that they do not possess incomplete or outdated knowledge about the target language and its culture.


(Dema, O., Mueller, A. J., Teaching culture in the 21st century language classroom, 2012. Adaptado)
The verb in the fragment “While culture is often depicted as static in textbooks” (paragraph 2) is in the passive voice. However, not all English verbs – or verb tenses – can take a passive. The alternative in which the sentence can be correctly rewritten in the passive voice is:
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