Questão de Inglês — Substantivos (Nouns, Plural, Quantifiers) — VUNESP 2025
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- vu217277
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- VUNESP
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- EsFCEx
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- 2025
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Making the Case: The Importance of Listening in Language Learning
It has taken many years to bring the language teaching profession around to realizing the importance of listening in second and foreign language learning. As observed by Rivers, long an advocate for listening comprehension, “Speaking does not of itself constitute communication unless what is said is comprehended by another person”. Teaching the comprehension of spoken speech is therefore of primary importance if the communication aim is to be reached” (1966, pp. 196, 204). The reasons for the nearly total neglect of listening are difficult to assess, but as Morley notes, “Perhaps an assumption that listening is a reflex, a little like breathing - listening seldom receives overt teaching attention in one’s native language - has masked the importance and complexity of listening with understanding in a non-native language” (1972, p. vii).
In reality, listening is used far more than any other single language skill in normal daily life. On average, we can expect to listen twice as much as we speak, four times more than we read, and five times more than we write.
(Joan Morley,. In: Marianne Celce-Murcia, (Ed.). Teaching English as a second or foreign language. Boston: Heinle&Heinle-Thomson, 2001. Adaptado)
In the fragment from the first paragraph “It has taken many years to bring the language teaching profession around to realizing the importance of listening in second and foreign language learning”, the bolded words form a collocation. In English, collocations with the verbs ‘do’ and ‘make’ are particularly frequent. One correct instance of such collocation is found in the bolded words in alternative:
- AAfter all he went through, he made certain he’d never fly that airline again.
- BI made my best to try and solve the problem with the possibilities I had.
- CWe did a break so everybody could think over the situation and act accordingly.
- DWe did photos of the whole event, so that we’d have recollections of it in the future.
- EAfter hours of brainstorming and hard work, we were sure we’d done progress.