Questão 1184823

Read text III and answer questions 57 to 60:

Text III

Using a Critical Literacy Approach in the EFL class

There are a number of phenomena taking place in the 21st

century world which require new capabilities and even

demand specific mental abilities. Raising our students’ critical

thinking skills has become in the recent years a compelling

(5) need. The seemingly inexorable technological race, cultural,

industrial and financial globalization of societies, migration and

cases of massive poverty are all to be dealt with and processed

by a new type of individual which is both an inhabitant of a

country and a citizen of the world.

(10) Gender issues as well as class and cultural conflict and

exchange are categories which need to be redefined and

surfaced in the EFL class so that our students can cope with –

and/or survive – in the new constantly changing global reality.

Given this context, the thesis I advance in the article is that

(15) Critical Literacy (CL) seems to offer one of the most resourceful

ways in which teachers and students can get together and

analyze, question and finally dwell in today’s dynamic world.

(http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/NELTA/article/view/3088/2706)

According to the PCN’s, critical literacy is in line with