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Our world is changing rapidly and so are the needs and wants of our learners. Mobile phones and social media have become staples in students’ daily lives. Many work from home and v
Gramática (Grammatics)
VUNESP · 2025
Our world is changing rapidly and so are the needs and wants of our learners. Mobile phones and social media have become staples in students’ daily lives. Many work from home and value flexibility in when and where they learn. English has become an essential tool for international communication, and so have many transferable skills that are crucial to our learners’ employability in a landscape where new jobs and tasks are constantly being created.
It can be tricky to define ‘innovation’ and often, when we talk about innovations, it is easy to only focus on technological innovations. However, innovations go beyond technological advancements. In the world of English language teaching (ELT), innovation introduces new and original elements in methodology, design, content, and, of course, in technology. However innovative, technology shouldn’t be used for the sake of using the latest technology because innovation is about addressing and solving current challenges and offering fresh solutions. It is about adapting to changing needs and contexts and enhancing learning outcomes. It is about reimagining old ways of teaching and learning and attempting new pedagogies. In other words, innovation is about moving forward with the way we do things because it can make things more effective and more efficient for the educator and the learner.
(https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/2024)
The excerpt from the text “It can be tricky to define ‘innovation’ and often, when we talk about innovations, it is easy to only focus on technological innovations” shows two instances of the use of an ambient “it” or empty “it”. Unlike the common pronoun it, empty it does not refer to anything; it simply serves a grammatical function. In other words, empty it has a grammatical meaning, but no lexical meaning.
Mark the alternative in which it has a lexical meaning.
- If you ask me, I think it is great living here.
- We should get going, it is nearly one o’clock.
- It’s a lovely day, and we should go out for a walk.
- It was very nice to meet them, I’d heard so much about them!
- The restaurant is close by and it serves delicious food.
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Na frase The restaurant is close by and it serves delicious food, it tem significado lexical porque retoma um referente explícito: the restaurant. Pergunte "a que it se refere?" e responda the restaurant.
Um teste simples: substitua it por the restaurant. A sentença permanece natural: The restaurant is close by and the restaurant serves delicious food. Isso mostra que it funciona como pronome referencial, com referente lexical.
Diferente do empty it, aqui não se trata de preencher a posição de sujeito sem conteúdo; it representa um elemento concreto já mencionado no contexto, portanto é lexical e correto como gabarito.
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