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Leia o texto a seguir para responder a questão: Folklore and fairytales have been examined as effective means for teaching culture in a foreign language because they are an integra

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VUNESP · 2026

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Folklore and fairytales have been examined as effective means for teaching culture in a foreign language because they are an integral part of people’s everyday life. Morain (1997) proposed the idea that folklore is superior to literary writing because it depicts the attitudes of large groups of people. Gholson and Stumpf (2005) believe that folklore might help promote cultural dialogue in which L2 learners gain respect for differences between their native culture and L2 culture, as well as acknowledge the similarities in both cultures. Akpinar and Ozturk (2009) suggest that folklore can be taught in an L2 classroom through an inquiry approach: folklore engages the students in exploring the theme and structure of a folktale, relating these to their L1 background knowledge, and then drawing conclusions about the target culture, its beliefs, values, lifestyles, history, etc.

(DEMA, O., MUELLER, A. J. Teaching culture in the 21st

century language classroom. IN: SILDUS, T. (ed.). Published in Touch the World: Selected Papers from the 2012

Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Eau Claire: Crown Prints, pp. 75-91. Adaptado)

 

Read the two excerpts from the text:

 

“Gholson and Stumpf (2005) believe that folklore might help promote cultural dialogue”.

“Akpinar and Ozturk (2009) suggest that folklore can be taught in an L2 classroom through an inquiry approach.”

 

In the two excerpts, the bolded modal verbs carry the idea of

  1. possibility.
  2. prediction.
  3. ability.
  4. necessity.
  5. recommendation.
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Modal verbs indicam modalidade, ou seja, a atitude do falante em relação à ação. Nos trechos, ambos os verbos ressaltam a ideia de possibilidade.


Em “might help promote cultural dialogue”, might sinaliza uma possibilidade incerta ou hipotética: os autores sugerem que folklore pode ajudar, sem garantia definitiva.


Em “can be taught in an L2 classroom”, can expressa uma possibilidade mais geral ou capacidade: indica que é viável ensinar folklore por meio de uma abordagem indagativa.


Portanto, tanto might quanto can transmitem a noção de que algo é possível, sendo might mais cauteloso e can mais indicativo de viabilidade.

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