Questão de Língua Inglesa

Read the following situations: 1. Someone is learning English in a formal classroom setting, with limited or no opportunities for use outside the classroom, in a country in which English does not play an important role in internal communication. 2. Someone is learning English in a setting in which the language is necessary for everyday life or in a country in which English plays an important role in education, business, and government. 3. A particular group of students are learning English and the contents and aims of the course are determined by their specific needs. These needs are normally identified by means of needs analysis. They might be occupational or academic. 4. Someone is using English for cross-cultural or cross-linguistic communication. For instance, when a Brazilian and a Japanese businessman use English to negotiate a business contract. The kind of English used on such occasions does not need to be necessarily based on native speaker varieties of English, but will vary according to the mother tongue of the people speaking it and the purposes for which it is being used. The different contexts of language learning and language use presented above refer, respectively, to: