Questão Q2931268 - Língua Inglesa

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Read the paragraphs below and answer questions 40 and 41.

In his suggestion of an approach for teaching-learning English, Lewis states the following:

One of the two central specifically linguistic ideas of the Lexical Approach is that of collocation. Collocation is the readily observable phenomenon whereby certain words co-occur in natural text with greater than random frequency. We all know which is the more common in each of these pairs: chase/miss the bus, make/do a mistake, slump dramatically/ gracefully. But do we really know? Are our intuitions reliable? And, even if they are, what part does collocation play in standard classroom activities? Is it a simple extension of vocabulary teaching, or can we find patterns and paradigms which move it towards word-grammar, and hence towards the generative pole of the vocabulary-grammar spectrum

(Lewis, M. Implementing the Lexical Approach. 2008, p. 8 Adaptado)

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Teaching as chunks – each lexical combination as one lexical item. For example: Go crazy would be taught as having one single meaning rather than go + crazy.

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Teaching as two words – in the phrase stand up, students need to know what stand and up mean separately in order to apply the meaning to the phrase correctly.

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There is no real need to teach collocations to students in such early stages of their English learning because they do not know the basics like the simple present for example.

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In regular schools, students will not learn such subtleties of the language. This is the kind of content that can only be successfully taught in Language Institutes.

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Teaching lists that ought to be memorized – since there is no easy way to learn chunks, but through a long period of rote learning.

In his book about the Lexcial Approach, what does Lewis...