To support reading in Portuguese-speaking contexts, a teacher explores cognates and false cognates with students. Analyze the statements.
I. A clear cognate pair guarantees identical meaning, so context checking becomes a minor step in reading.
II. Recognizing cognates can speed up global understanding, especially when combined with context and genre cues that confirm the intended sense.
III. False cognates can be handled by attending to collocations and typical patterns that differ between English and Portuguese in how words combine.
IV. A strategic move in reading is to treat a suspected cognate as a hypothesis and verify it against modifiers, examples or contrast cues nearby.
V. Early reading tasks should avoid cognates because learners tend to treat most cognates as false friends over time.
The CORRECT statements are: