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The text highlights the importance of global English...

Ano: 2025
Banca: Comissão Executiva do Vestibular da Universidade Estadual do Ceará - CEV UECE
Prova: CEV / UECE - Prefeitura de Tauá - PEB II - Área: Língua Inglesa - 2025

T E X T 1


Teaching English as a Global Language


  1. With over 1.5 billion native and non-native
  2. speakers, English is the world’s most widely spoken
  3. language. Teaching English as a global language means
  4. acknowledging the reasons for its worldwide presence. It is
  5. important to provide context to help students understand
  6. how exactly English became a global language. Present a
  7. brief history lesson that traces English from its origins in
  8. England to the dozens of countries that use it as a
  9. dominant language today.
  10. English is no longer linked to a particular country.
  11. Pull up a map and ask students to start naming the
  12. countries where English is spoken as a native language.
  13. Then, ask them to find the countries where it is spoken as a
  14. dominant language. Finally, ask them to find where it is
  15. spoken by the majority of the population. This will remind
  16. students that there are many ways that English is spoken
  17. around the world. This can help change one’s perspective
  18. from seeing English as having a single, correct form of
  19. usage to seeing it as a way to facilitate communication
  20. with people across the globe.
  21. Students who are learning English as a global
  22. language must be reminded that statistically speaking, they
  23. are more likely to use English with non-native English
  24. speakers than natives. This is because English has more
  25. non-native speakers than native speakers! It’s estimated
  26. that 70-75 percent of the world’s English speakers are non-
  27. native. It’s highly likely that students will at some point
  28. encounter an unexpected accent or dialect of English.
  29. It is the heavy task of the global English teacher
  30. to help students unlearn their fear of mistakes and
  31. embrace communication for the sake of comprehension.
  32. The idea that communication matters more than
  33. grammatical precision is also important to help students
  34. develop strategies for what to do when communication
  35. breaks down. This means giving them tools like asking for
  36. clarification, rephrasing their own statements, and
  37. confirming understanding. Role-playing these types of
  38. interactions helps students build confidence and prepares
  39. them for real-life situations – whether in meetings, travel,
  40. or casual conversations. By focusing on communication
  41. strategies rather than perfection, you help students
  42. become more effective, empathetic speakers.
  43. One of the best ways to reinforce the global
  44. nature of English is by incorporating authentic materials
  45. into your lessons – materials created by English speakers
  46. from various countries and cultural backgrounds. This
  47. includes podcasts, YouTube videos, blog posts, news
  48. articles, or even social media content produced by non-
  49. native speakers or international communities. Using real-
  50. world examples allows students to encounter English in a
  51. variety of accents, formats, and contexts, far beyond the
  52. confines of standardized textbooks. It also helps them
  53. develop listening and reading skills that are more
  54. adaptable to the real-life situations they’ll encounter when
  55. using English with people from different backgrounds. It is
  56. a shared language used by billions, and it’s shaped by the
  57. voices of its global community.
  58. Although it’s a global language, English is also
  59. uniquely personal. Whether it’s the cafe playing the latest
  60. hit song from a music artist, the name of the milkshake at
  61. their local fast food restaurant, or a new Instagram update
  62. from a celebrity, remind students to recognize the role
  63. English already plays in their lives. Invite them to interact
  64. with it by straining to understand the song lyrics or set
  65. their phones to English. Since it’s all around us, it can be
  66. easy to learn to ignore global English. Invite students to
  67. recognize it, embrace it, and engage with it in their own
  68. daily lives. Teaching English as a global language, you can
  69. help your students use this language to its full potential –
  70. to facilitate multicultural communication and collaboration
  71. and to express the full, authentic experience of humans
  72. around the globe.


Adapted from: https://bridge.edu/tefl/March 21, 2025

The text highlights the importance of global English teachers making students aware of the fact that English is around us in many different ways being already part of their lives, citing as examples, among others,

A

newspapers and magazines.

B

music and TV news.

C

songs and famous people’s posts.

D

magazines and films.

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