The paradox mentioned in the last paragraph of the text is:

By reading the passage “[…] there are intrinsic rewards (within the game) keyed to any player's level of expertise;[…]” (L. 22,23), it is possible to infer that the

From the excerpt “[…] they are just the sorts of principles that are driven out of schools by our current mania for testing and accountability.” (L.46-48), it can be understood that traditional schooling

From the fragment “I should mention, too, that while school-based Baby Boomers give lip service to multicultural diversity and understanding, they rarely extend this understanding to the generational, peer-based, and popular cultures of the young people in school.” (L. 38-40), one can infer that Baby Boomers

An overview of the text makes it possible to affirm that the author portraits school as being committed to

Indicate which of the following verbs, combined with the same preposition, is similar in meaning to the underlined expression in “[…] different social and cultural environments will call for different strategies […]” (L. 8,9):

In “Specialists in teaching – and, in particular, the teaching of World English (WE) will, henceforth, need to take into consideration the important fact that language teaching is, over and above everything else, a matter of negotiating identities” (L. 6-8), the underlined word functions as a discourse marker of

The expression underlined in “[…] when it comes to dealing with the question of negotiating new identities in the face of contact with alien tongues.” (L. 9,10) refers to languages which

Considering the characteristics of our post-modern society and language, the author raises the need for teaching strategies which

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Taking into account the assumptions that underlie the text, one can say that the author advocates a linguistic approach that