Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2003

Cognitive abilities, tactics, techniques, language processing, conscious plans, and problem solving procedures are terms related to:

• A.

  Language.

• B.

  Behavior.

• C.

  Theory.

• D.

  Strategy

Two complementary modes compose classroom interaction: One refers to talk with a pedagogical formal language goal. The other mode refers to talk without a pedagogical formal language goal. They are not static, there can be an overlapping between them. These two modes are called respectively:

• A.

  Language goal mode and meaning mode.

• B.

  Focus-on-meaning mode and focus-on-form mode.

• C.

  Focus-on-form mode and focus-on-meaning mode.

• D.

  Communication mode and Focus-on-form mode

The following are examples of basic reading strategies:

• A.

  Finding reading material that is at the reader's level, making a strong effort to read with perfect pronunciation, and planning how to read the text.

• B.

  Integrating reading and writing, using of extensive reading and analyzing the information acquired.

• C.

  Reading simplified texts, finding similar words in the text, making comparisons and remembering words.

• D.

  Planning how to read a text, monitoring to see how reading is going, checking to see how much the text was understood, and making ongoing summaries.

Guessing the appropriate meaning by using clues from the surrounding context and using a dictionary to get detailed sense of what individual words mean are reading strategies which can be used when:

• A.

  The reader encounters unknown words and structures.

• B.

  The reader needs to contextualize the text s/he is reading.

• C.

  You need to teach reading for a long time.

• D.

  The writer needs different words to express his/her ideas.

According to David Nunan (1999) a natural teacher is:

• A.

  Someone who has some fluency in English but has not received much "formal training".

• B.

  Someone who was born with the skills needed to be a teacher.

• C.

  Someone who is involved with educational matters since the early years of his/her life.

• D.

  Someone who has received professional preparation and higher education on teaching.

Some of the teacher's roles in an interactive teaching mode classroom are:

• A.

  Listening student's opinions about the contents, choosing and preparing classes according to what they want to learn.

• B.

  Preparing FL classes and choosing memorization and fixation activities.

• C.

  Mediating the teaching/learning process and creating learning opportunities for students to use the target language.

• D.

  Listening student's problems and advertising them about the best ways for studying.

Evaluation has to be seen as a process practice. The teacher has to pay attention to each student's learning development in every class, not only on exams and tests. This mode of evaluating is called:

• A. Objective evaluation.
• B. Diagnostic evaluation
• C. Pedagogical evaluation.
• D. Whole evaluation.

Write (1) for examples of oral practice activities, (2) for listening comprehension activities, (3) for reading activities and (4) for writing practice activities.

• A.

  2, 3, 1, 1, 4.

• B.

  2, 4, 1, 3, 2.

• C.

  1, 2, 4, 3, 1.

• D.

  4, 2, 1, 2, 3.

About the textbook it is correct to say that:

• A.

  Only alternative II is correct.

• B.

  Only the alternatives I and III are correct.

• C.

  Only the alternatives II, III and IV are correct.

• D.

  All the alternatives are correct.

Talking about the new vocabulary, discussing about the subject, and discussing about the pictures which are shown are examples of:

• A.

  Grammar activities.

• B.

  Listening comprehension activities.

• C.

  Pre-reading activities.

• D.

  Testing.