“Students, like the rest of us, need to be able to do a number of things with a reading text.” (Harmer, 1998: 69). One of these ´things´ is to skim the text, or rather, to:

English Language Teaching practice has incorporated the following principle as part of its most recent procedures (Harmer, 1998: 32):

Harmer (1998:68) claims that the greatest controversy about the suitability of reading texts for English language students is centred on whether the texts are:

The orientation which probably best describes the PCN is the focus on:

The PCN have adopted a view of learning which sees it as the product of the often asymmetrical relationship between a learner and a more competent peer. This view is also called:

The PCN claim that starting from what language learners know already is crucial. The reason why this is so is that learners can then:

The development of a specific foreign language ability may be hindered by the:

Among the numerous educational rights pertaining to the Brazilian citizen, the PCN stress one in particular, namely, that every learner:

One teaching objective left out of the PCN is that the curriculum:

Herdeiros das tradições iluministas do século XVIII e das grandes revoluções sociais que se seguiram, estes países se uniram na luta contra o fascismo e o nazismo, superando barreiras ideológicas entre o capitalismo e o socialismo que, mais tarde, durante a Guerra Fria, pareceriam intransponíveis. São eles: