Ano:2019Banca:Núcleo de Concursos da UFPRÓrgão:Prefeitura Municipal de CuritibaProva:NC-UFPR - 2019 - PMC - Profissional de Magistério – Docência II - Inglês
In the sentence: “When it was taken for granted that the variety of English which learners needed to master was a native-speaker one, the choice was often determined by proximity”, the underlined expression means: