Questão 2190217

• Banca: NUCEPE
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Teresina - PI
• Ano: 2016
• Provas: NUCEPE - 2016 - Prefeitura de Teresina - PI - Professor - Língua Inglesa
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Pronome possessivo adjetivo | Possessive adjective; Pronomes | Pronouns

TEXT 06

The (in)appropriate speaker model?

"Anyone working in the field of English as a Lingua Franca (henceforth ELF) has to face sooner rather than later a serious contradiction: that despite the widespread acceptance of the extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions in this respect, there is still an almost equally widespread resistance to this lingua franca’s forms. Given the well-established sociolinguistic fact that languages are shaped by their users, and that nowadays “native speakers are in a minority for [English] language use” (Brumfit 2001, 116), it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus on native varieties of English. This suggestion always meets, however, with strong resistance from many quarters, and this is particularly so in the case of accent. The result is that two particular native speaker English accents, Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA), continue to command special status around the English speaking world including international/lingua franca communication contexts where sociolinguistic common sense indicates that they are inappropriate and irrelevant." 

Source: adapted from: JENKINS, J. (Un)pleasant? (In)correct? (Un)Intelligible? ELF Speakers' perceptions of their accents. In: MAURANEN, Anna and RANTA, Elina (Ed.).English as a Lingua Franca:Studies and Findings. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, p.10-35.  

The pronoun "its", that occurs twice in the passage "...that despite the widespread acceptance of the extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions in this respect, there is still an almost equally widespread resistance to this lingua franca’s forms. Given the well-established sociolinguistic fact that languages are shaped by their users, and that nowadays “native speakers are in a minority for [English] language use” (Brumfit 2001, 116), it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus on native varieties of English." (lines 04 to 18) refers, respectively to:

• A. increasing numbers of functions / almost exclusive focus on.
• B. English as an international lingua franca / native varieties of English.
• C. increasing numbers of functions / English language teaching.
• D. the extensive role / English language teaching.
• E. English as an international lingua franca / English language teaching.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• Gabarito: E.

   

  "[...] extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions[...]"

   

  "[...] it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus[...]"

• e-

   

  The possessive pronoun its sets a possession relationship between a non-human entity and its genitive object. According to the information provided in the text, english language teaching has any uses, not the least of which is as lingua franca, Therefore, being a lingua franca is one of its uses. In the second instance of its, it's established that egllish language teaching has an exclusivist bent when giving priority to standard variations from english-speaking countries. Therefore it retains a possessive relationhsip with "exclusive focus"