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“In many Brazilian public universities, English instruction...

“In many Brazilian public universities, English instruction has historically prioritized the development of strategic reading abilities, enabling learners to extract relevant information from academic texts in their fields, rather than pursuing full oral fluency.” (Excerpt adapted from: Celani [1988]; Ramos [2005]. “Brazilian ESP tradition”)


The pedagogical orientation described aligns most closely with:


A

a task-based communicative syllabus emphasizing spoken interaction


B

a humanistic classroom centered on affective lowering of anxiety barriers


C

a grammar-translation model focused primarily on sentence-level accuracy


D

an ESP reading approach grounded in instrumental comprehension and genresensitive strategies