The word “foci”, on the first line of the extract, is the plural of “focus”. Another correct plural form is found in alternative: A) That was a most interesting article on the flying power of mosquitoes to create sound. B) Early experiences mold the way we face up to and deal with crises later in life. C) Some people’s main criterion for a new car may be gas mileage, while other people’s may be comfort. D) The analysis must be deeper, if we are to gain any further conclusions on the problem. E) Storms and excessive heat can be seen as proofs of man’s disregard against nature.

B) Early experiences mold the way we face up to and deal with crises later in life.

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One of the major foci of applied linguistics scholarship has been the foreign or second language classroom. A glance through the past century or so of language teaching gives us an interesting picture of varied interpretations of the best way to teach a foreign language. As schools of thought have come and gone, so have language teaching trends waxed and waned in popularity.

Albert Marckwardt (1972) saw these “changing winds and shifting sands” as a cyclical pattern where a new paradigm of teaching methodology emerged about every quarter of a century, with each new method breaking from the old but at the same time taking with it some of the positive aspects of the previous paradigm. One of the best examples of the cyclical nature of methods is seen in the revolutionary Audiolingual Method (ALM) of the late 1940s and 1950s. The ALM borrowed principles and beliefs from its predecessor by almost half a century, the Direct Method, while breaking away entirely from the Grammar-Translation paradigm. Within a short time, however, ALM critics were advocating more attention to rules of language which, to some, smacked a return to Grammar Translation.

(BROWN, H.Douglas. Principles of language learning and teaching.

5th ed. Longman, 2000. Adaptado)

The word “foci”, on the first line of the extract, is the plural of “focus”. Another correct plural form is found in alternative:

✂️ a) That was a most interesting article on the flying power of mosquitoes to create sound.
✂️ b) Early experiences mold the way we face up to and deal with crises later in life.
✂️ c) Some people’s main criterion for a new car may be gas mileage, while other people’s may be comfort.
✂️ d) The analysis must be deeper, if we are to gain any further conclusions on the problem.
✂️ e) Storms and excessive heat can be seen as proofs of man’s disregard against nature.