Q124130
IBFC - 2019 - Prefeitura de Conde - PB - Professor B - Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2019
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Conde - PB
Banca:
IBFC
Matéria:
Inglês
Assunto: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Utilize o texto a seguir para responder à questão 39.
NO HABLA ESPAÑOL? HOW NETFLIX COULD
TRANSFORM THE WAY WE LEARN LANGUAGES
Amid concern over the fall in pupils studying foreign
languages, a new online tool has turned the streaming
service into a classroom
For years people around the world have learned
English by watching Hollywood movies and costume
dramas on the BBC. Now British monoglots have one
less excuse for not returning the favour: a new online
tool that turns the streaming service Netflix into a sofabased
language lab.
Language Learning With Netflix (LLN), a tool that
allows viewers to watch foreign language shows with
subtitles both in the original language and English, and
pauses automatically to allow the learner to absorb what
they have just heard, has been downloaded by tens of
thousands of people since its launch in December.
Amid growing concern over the falling number of
pupils taking foreign languages in secondary schools,
some linguists have hailed LLN as a dynamic way of
harnessing the educational potential of Netflix, which
has programmes in 26 languages in 190 countries, and
aims to have 100 non-English language series in
production by this year.
David Wilkinson and Ognjen Apic, the two
independent developers behind the tool, began the
project as a hobby a few years ago and launched their
Chrome browser extension in December. A trickle of
users has turned into a flood – in the last three weeks
more than 30,000 people have downloaded the tool.
“We want to encourage people to use good habits,”
Wilkinson said. “At an early stage, students should
listen to the language as much as possible. Pump
language into the ears and provide a translation that
allows you to associate meaning with that.” (...)
The GuardianSobre o texto, considere as palavras
destacadas: “harnessing” e “trickle”. Assinale
a alternativa que apresenta correta e
respectivamente suas definições, dentro do
contexto apresentado.
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