Questão de Língua Inglesa

A number of researchers have studied conversations between speakers of English as a Lingua Franca and have noted a number of somewhat surprising characteristics, including: • Use of an all-purpose tag question such as isn’t it? (They should arrive soon, isn’t it?) • Increasing of redundancy by adding prepositions {We have to study about… and Can we discuss about…) • Pluralisation of nouns which are considered uncountable in native-speaker English. (informations, staffs) The evidence suggests that non-native speakers are not conforming to a native English standard. Truly, they seem to get along perfectly well despite the fact that they miss things out and put things in which ‘they should not do’. (HARMER, J. The practice of English language teaching. 4th ed, Essex: Pearson Longman. Adaptado)