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Read the text to answer question from. Two concepts – acquisition and learning – play key roles in the study of language. Although there are people who use the two terms interchang

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VUNESP · 2025

Read the text to answer question from.

 

Two concepts – acquisition and learning – play key roles in the study of language. Although there are people who use the two terms interchangeably, in reality they embody two different processes in the development of communicative competence. Language acquisition is an intuitive and subconscious process, similar to that of children when they develop their mother tongue – natural, incidental, and often unconscious. Language learning, by contrast, is a conscious process that involves studying rules and structures.

 

Talking about the rules and structures of a language not only implies knowing the grammatical and spelling rules, but also understanding how that language is used in social contexts. For example, to show affection in a personal letter, we can say goodbye with “sending you hugs and kisses”, but not with “I would like to provide you with a hug”. Understanding which words tend to appear together and the level of formality they carry (known as “register”) is part of knowing a language.

 

By understanding acquisition and learning, we can improve our performance as learners. Immersing ourselves in an environment where the language we want to learn is used can foster acquisition, as can classes that encourage more communicative ways of learning which replicate situations that could arise in real contexts. Nevertheless, a grammatical explanation will help us to learn the rules of the language. The key is to combine the two approaches.

 

(Vazquez-Calvo, B. 2023. Adaptado)

 

In the paragraph, the author states that

  1. both acquisition and learning are processes.
  2. the words acquisition and learning may be used interchangeably.
  3. learning is conscious, and therefore must happen in school.
  4. teenagers go through learning, not acquisition.
  5. acquisition and learning happen at the same time since birth.
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Processos refere-se ao fato de que tanto aquisição quanto aprendizagem são modos de desenvolvimento da competência comunicativa. O texto apresenta ambos como atividades distintas, mas equivalentes em sua natureza de procedimento para dominar a língua.

Na sequência, o autor caracteriza a aquisição como um processo intuitivo e subconsciente, comparando-o ao modo como crianças desenvolvem a língua materna: natural e incidental. Essa descrição reforça que se trata de um processo com dinâmica própria.

Em contrapartida, a aprendizagem é apresentada como um processo consciente, envolvendo estudo de regras e estruturas e atenção ao uso social da língua. Assim, o texto afirma claramente que ambas são processos distintos, mas fundamentais.

Conclui-se, portanto, que a alternativa correta sintetiza essa ideia central: ambas são processos que contribuem para o domínio do idioma.

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