Questões de Língua Inglesa

justification.

possibility.

knowledge.

request.

wish.

whether it is British or American English, EFL teachers have to choose a standard.

there is no one better model of English to be followed in EFL.

with the increase of non-native EFL teachers, nativelike models are disappearing.

new democracies refuse to follow British or American models in EFL.

formal language usage has all but disappeared in EFL teaching.

new grammars and dictionaries now provide better pedagogical tools for teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL).

dictionaries and grammars which are based on corpus research tend to include the many mistakes that native speakers make.

new pedagogical models are much better organized nowadays due to the use of computerized language corpora.

many traditional dictionaries and grammars for learners of English have been revised with the help of computer corpora.

corpus research has shown that real language use does not always follow the rules traditionally prescribed in traditional course books.

important.

difficult.

irrelevant.

desirable.

impossible.

copy editors had to work in secret so that authors never knew that their writing would be adapted to what the publishers wished.

publishers did not want the public at large to realize that some well-know writers needed to have their work revised.

due to the formality of the English used at the time, most authors resorted to ghost-writers to help them with their work.

the language used in books and magazines was always revised to make sure it represented the ideal of acceptable English.

only standard English was adopted by writers and broadcasters, who all belonged to the higher levels of society.