Questão 47 - PAS - UFLA 1 Etapa 2023-2025

Read Passage 1 carefully, and then answer the question.

 

PASSAGE 1

 

HOW TO INCORPORATE WORLD ENGLISHES IN THE CLASSROOM?

 

[1]    How to teach World Englishes? There is not a single definite answer to this question, as there is no “one 
size fits all” approach for incorporating the different varieties of English in the classroom. However, generally, 
teachers can take a World Englishes approach in their lessons by working to pluralize students’ perceptions. This 
can be accomplished, for example, by accepting cultural, rhetorical, and stylistic variations as well as by treating 
[5] students fairly when they use different English varieties in the classroom. Matsuda and Matsuda (2010) offer 
five principles that can guide teachers to incorporate World Englishes in a writing classroom: 

       • Teach the dominant language forms and functions. 
       • Teach the non-dominant language forms and functions. 
       • Teach the boundary between what works and what does not. 
[10] • Teach the principles and strategies of discourse negotiation. 
       • Teach the risks involved in using deviational features. 

    The other strategy Matsuda and Matsuda mention is teacher collaboration. This focuses on designing 
opportunities for students to interact in socially-diverse activities and reflect deeply on their communication 
experiences. It also requires teachers to identify key concepts students can use to make sense of the complex 
[15] communication experiences in their specific contexts.

Available at: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/english_as_a_second_language/world_englishes/classroom_applications_and_activities.html . Accessed on 18 July, 2022.

According to the passage, “accepting cultural, rhetorical, and stylistic variations as well as by treating students fairly when they use different English varieties in the classroom.” (lines 4-6), are attitudes to