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It is reasonable to affirm that Freire (1970) is the main author in Brazil to propose Education as a social practice. In the field of English language teaching, there are many approaches and perspectives aligned with Freire’s ideas, such as Siqueira’s (2021) way of rethinking the English teaching process in the context of 21st-century Brazil.Considering the relationship between these two authors perspectives and the quotation from the main author of African literature, it is correct to affirm:

According to the following text, which statement best describes the role of the teacher in the learning process?
(…) even when teachers appear to be in control of interaction, they are subject to the dynamics of the complex system of the classroom. Teachers do not control their students' learning. Teaching does not cause learning; learners make their own paths (…). This does not mean that teaching does not influence learning, far from it; teaching and teacher-learner interaction construct and constrain the learning aff ordances of the classroom. What a teacher can do is manage and serve her or his students' learning in a way that is consonant with their learning-processes. Thus, any approach we might advocate would not be curriculum-centered nor learner-centered, but it would be learning centered – where the learning guides the teaching and not vice versa.
Due to the non-linearity of a complex dynamic system as it moves through state space, small perturbations (teacher interventions) can make a big difference. Of course, it also can happen the other way around. Teachers and students may work very hard on some aspect of language using, with little apparent success. One day, though, the point of criticality may be reached and the system self-organizes in a new way.
LARSEN-FREEMAN, Diane; CAMERON, Lynne. Complex systems and applied linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. p. 199-200