In the first sentence of the text – There are several possible reasons for using the Internet in language teaching. – the word several functions as a

No trecho da última frase do texto – Clarifying course goals is thus an important first step... – a palavra thus é um marcador discursivo que tem a ideia de

In the phrase random online activities in the second paragraph, the word random is used to mean that these activities are

No trecho do segundo parágrafo – since there are so many ways to integrate the Internet into classroom instruction, – a palavra since pode ser substituída, mantendo-se o mesmo sentido da frase, por

O excerto do primeiro parágrafo – ... electronic discourse tends to be more lexically and syntactically complex than oral discourse... – pode ser corretamente parafraseado, em inglês, como

In the fragment from the second sentence of the text – One rationale is found in the belief that the linguistic nature of online communication... – the word rationale could be replaced, with no change in the sense of the sentence, by

According to the text,

The excerpt from the last sentence in the text – the myth of a standard language becomes more difficult to maintain – states that

In the third paragraph, the sentence – The myth of a pedagogically tidy model is much more difficult to sustain now that many dictionaries and grammars are based on corpus research. – clearly implies that

According to the ideas developed in the second paragraph, one could say that an emphasis in the teaching of English pronunciation according to native-like models in a class in the public school system of a country like Brazil would be