Questões sobre Língua Inglesa e Educação

Among the features underlying the whole language instruction there is NOT

• A. reading and writing for real audiences with real purposes.
• B. acceptance of errors as signs of the learning development.
• C. writing for real audiences not simply writing to practice skills.
• D. presence of linguistic variation in materials and methodology.
• E. use of authentic literature rather than specially prepared texts.

An idiom has been defined as a lexical item (usually a phrase or a clause) whose meaning cannot be derived from the sum of its parts. The idiom in “summer is just around the corner” (line 1-2) means that “summer is:

• A. in our hands
• B. probably in the way
• C. hoped to happen soon
• D. nearly round the bend
• E. to take place shortly

• A.

  Teachers should consider organization while also working on grammar and syntax.

• B.

  Students should be given time to try out ideas and feedback on the content of what they write in their drafts.

• C.

  Students should be first given sentence exercises, then paragraphs to copy or manipulate grammatically by changing questions to statements.

• D.

  Only after reaching a high intermediate or advanced level of proficiency are students allowed to try some free compositions.

• E.

  Teachers should stress quantity of writing rather than quality.

Considering that responding to students’ writing is very much a part of the process of teaching writing, choose the correct option about the theory concerning the way teachers should respond to students’ writing in the process writing approach.

• A.

  In responding to students’ writings, teachers should mark all errors, even those which do not interfere with communication.

• B.

  Responding to students’ writing is a task which should be tacked onto the end of a teaching sequence only.

• C.

  Rewriting, editing and proofreading are common patterns of sequence in writing classes.

• D.

  In responding to a student’s piece of writing, the teacher’s main job is to pass judgment on its quality.

• E.

  Errors in writing constitute one of the biggest problems of composition teaching.

Based on the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais issued by the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Culture in 1998 (Secretaria de Educação Fundamental, 1998), choose the correct option.

• A.

  The policies presented in the publication do not comprise the development of critical thinking.

• B.

  The document proposes a curriculum which provides students with opportunities for acting in the world through discourses mainly offered by their mother tongue.

• C.

  According to the new curricular parameters, language use is essentially determined by its sociointeractional nature, and meaning is dialogic.

• D.

  The document focuses on traditional pedagogies by investing in the development of multicultural principles that can inform pedagogic work.

• E.

  The document emphasizes skills development and focuses on standardized content.

The Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais issued by the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Culture states that

• A.

  the teaching of foreign languages, as it happens in relation to other subjects, is the school’s responsibility, and it is there that it should take place.

• B.

  the language curriculum should focus on the development of as many skills related to the target language as possible, thus preparing students for college admission exams.

• C.

  teachers should emphasize the teaching of writing in detriment to other abilities, due to the few opportunities the population has to use foreign languages as an instrument for oral communication, inside or outside the country.

• D.

  teachers should enable students to develop oral abilities as well as reading and writing.

• E.

  the focus on teaching students how to develop their writing abilities in the foreign language could serve purposes, such as helping them overcome difficulties they may be facing in their own language when it comes to reading tasks.

Based on the text, judge the items from 66 through 72.

Different learners have different communicative requirements which should be reflected in the content of the curriculum.

• C. Certo
• E. Errado

It is possible to affirm that text A

• A.

  tries to create a nightmarish setting.

• B.

  focus on a dream, following Freud’s budding theories at the time.

• C.

  shows the surprise of the narrator upon dealing with Heathcliff’s superstitions.

• D.

  has elements of Gothic fiction.

Read the sentence below and choose the correct alternative to fill in the blank.

______, play by the Irish poet and writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), was first staged in London in 1895.

• A.

  The Picture of Dorian Gray

• B.

  De Profundis

• C.

  The Soul of Man Under Socialism

• D.

  The Importance of Being Earnest

¨DThe teacher stands outside a circle of students and helps them say what they want to say by translating, suggesting or amending the students¡® utterances. These utterances are recorded so that they can be analyzed later.¡¬ This paragraph describes a lesson given according to the principles of:

• A. direct method
• B. audiolingualism
• C. task based learning
• D. community language learning
• E. communicative language teaching