Questão de Inglês — Substituição de Palavras e Reescrita de Frases (Inglês) — VUNESP 2023

Consider Kenji, a university student from Japan who is studying at a pre-university language institute in the United States. During his previous twelve years of schooling he was taught some very specific behaviors. He was taught to give the utmost “respect” to his teacher, which means a number of things: never to contradict the teacher; never to speak in class unless spoken to—always let the teacher initiate communication; let the teacher’s wisdom be “poured into” him; never call a teacher by a first name; respect older teachers even more than younger teachers. But in his new U.S. language school his youngish teachers are friendly and encourage a first-name basis, they ask students to participate in group work, they try to get students to come up with answers to problems rather than just giving the answer and so on. Kenji is confused. Why?

(BROWN, H. Douglas. Principles of language learning and teaching. 5th edition. Ed.Longman, 2000. Adaptado)