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The Trouble with Online Education
"AH, you're a professor. You must learn so much from your
students."
This line, which every now and then I hear in various
forms, always makes me cringe. Do people think that lawyers
learn a lot about the law from their clients? That patients
teach doctors much of what they know about medicine?
Yet latent in the sentiment that our students are our
teachers is an important truth. We do in fact need to learn
from them, but not about the history of the Roman Empire or
the politics of "Paradise Lost". Understanding what it is
that students have to teach teachers can help us to deal
with one of the most vexing issues now facing colleges and
universities: online education. At my school, the University
of Virginia, that issue did more than vex us; it came close
to tearing the university apart.
A few weeks ago our president, Teresa A. Sullivan, was
summarily dismissed and then summarily reinstated by the
university's board of visitors. One reason for her dismissal
was the perception that she was not moving forward fast
enough on Internet learning. Stanford was doing it, Harvard,
Yale and M.I.T. too. But Virginia, it seemed, was lagging.
Just this week, in fact, it was announced that Virginia,
along with a number of other universities, signed on with a
company called Coursera to develop and offer online classes.
But can online education ever be education of the very
best sort?
(Adapted from http://www.nytimes.com)
Mark the statements below as T (True) or F (False) and choose the best alternative.
( ) "This" (line 3) in "This line, which now and then I hear in various forms [...]" was used cataphorically.
( ) "That" (line 14) in "[...] that issue did more than vex us [...]" was used exophorically.
( ) "It" (line 14-15) in "[...] it came close to tearing the university apart." was used cataphorically.
( ) "This" (line 22) in "Just this week [...]" was used exophorically.
( ) "It" (line 22) in "[...] it was announced that Virginia [...]" was used non-referentially.
The Trouble with Online Education
"AH, you're a professor. You must learn so much from your
students."
This line, which every now and then I hear in various
forms, always makes me cringe. Do people think that lawyers
learn a lot about the law from their clients? That patients
teach doctors much of what they know about medicine?
Yet latent in the sentiment that our students are our
teachers is an important truth. We do in fact need to learn
from them, but not about the history of the Roman Empire or
the politics of "Paradise Lost". Understanding what it is
that students have to teach teachers can help us to deal
with one of the most vexing issues now facing colleges and
universities: online education. At my school, the University
of Virginia, that issue did more than vex us; it came close
to tearing the university apart.
A few weeks ago our president, Teresa A. Sullivan, was
summarily dismissed and then summarily reinstated by the
university's board of visitors. One reason for her dismissal
was the perception that she was not moving forward fast
enough on Internet learning. Stanford was doing it, Harvard,
Yale and M.I.T. too. But Virginia, it seemed, was lagging.
Just this week, in fact, it was announced that Virginia,
along with a number of other universities, signed on with a
company called Coursera to develop and offer online classes.
But can online education ever be education of the very
best sort?
(Adapted from http://www.nytimes.com)
Mark the statements below as T (True) or F (False) and choose the best alternative.
( ) "This" (line 3) in "This line, which now and then I hear in various forms [...]" was used cataphorically.
( ) "That" (line 14) in "[...] that issue did more than vex us [...]" was used exophorically.
( ) "It" (line 14-15) in "[...] it came close to tearing the university apart." was used cataphorically.
( ) "This" (line 22) in "Just this week [...]" was used exophorically.
( ) "It" (line 22) in "[...] it was announced that Virginia [...]" was used non-referentially.
Resolução comentada
Gabarito: F, F, F, T, T.
'This line' remete a algo já mencionado (a frase citada), logo é anafórico, não catafórico. 'That issue' retoma 'online education' dentro do texto, então é endofórico, não exofórico. 'It came close...' retoma 'that issue', logo é anafórico. 'This week' remete ao contexto situacional externo ao texto, logo é exofórico. O 'it' de 'it was announced' é um it expletivo, sem referente.
Análise das alternativas
As demais combinações erram ao classificar como catafóricos ou exofóricos itens que retomam elementos do próprio texto, ou ao negar o it não referencial e a referência exofórica de 'this week'.
Referência: Halliday & Hasan – Cohesion in English (referência endofórica e exofórica).
Resolução comentada do VaiConcursos.