Questões de Concurso sobre Língua Inglesa e Educação

As teachers, we need to balance English language activities that focus on accuracy and fluency. This can be done by

There is a global conceptual shift: learning English is no longer perceived as an “elegant achievement and symbol of social status,” but is understood as a constitutive part of basic education alongside mother tongue literacy and mathematical skills.

Considering this shift, what policy change is most crucial for developing communicative competence within the framework of higher education internationalization?

Look at the event poster below:

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The most appropriate reading strategy to locate specific information such as the event's date and venue is:

A graduate research project involving the university you work for and a key German partner (whose researchers are non-native English speakers) has stalled due to a series of misinterpreted emails. The German partner found the Brazilian emails too direct and 'unprofessional' (low-context communication style), while the Brazilian team viewed the German responses as 'excessively formal and slow.'

In this case, which strategic action best demonstrates the application of Communicative Competence in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and Interculturality context to resolve the impasse and provide capacity building to the Brazilian team?

Read the text below:

“With the promulgation of the bill 746/2016, converted into law in 2017, that reforms education in Brazil, English was made the only mandatory foreign language in schools, thus threatening the teaching/learning of other foreign languages such as Spanish, French, and Italian. […] Yet, the educational reforms and internationalization agendas are far from reaching consensus among linguists and higher education stakeholders when it comes to the use, teaching and learning of languages for internationalization purposes.”

Considering the need for a critical and sustainable internationalization agenda, which of the following is the most critical implication of making English the sole mandatory foreign language?

Leia os trechos abaixo, retirados do terceiro parágrafo:

“They discussed how they came up with responses based on best practices they had learned from their own experience as teachers.”

“They also spoke of the knowledge acquired in professional development courses.”

O conjunto das duas citações ilustra como, para enfrentar os problemas que surgem no seu dia a dia, os professores participantes do estudo descrito no texto recorrem

About the skimming and scanning strategies, select the correct statement.

Which of the following best describes a key principle of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach when teaching English in basic education?

Read the statements below about English language teaching. Which of them are correct?

I.In phonetics, vowel sounds tend to be more variable than consonant sounds because they depend more on tongue height, tongue position, and lip shape.

II.Interculturality in English teaching encourages students to compare cultures, reflect on their own cultural identities, and understand cultural diversity in communication.

III.Children's literature in English is not recommended for learners in basic education, as it does not support the development of listening and reading skills.

As estratégias de leitura são fundamentais para a competência leitora. A distinção entre processamento 'Bottom-up' e 'Top-down' é clássica na literatura da área. Analise as proposições:

I.O processamento 'Bottom-up' baseia-se na decodificação das menores unidades linguísticas (letras, palavras, frases) para construir o significado do texto, sendo linear e dependente dos dados do texto.

II.O processamento 'Top-down' utiliza o conhecimento prévio do leitor (background knowledgeschemata) e suas expectativas para prever e inferir o sentido do texto, partindo do global para o específico.

III.O modelo interativo (Interactive Model) sugere que leitores proficientes utilizam exclusivamente o processamento 'Top-down', ignorando a decodificação de palavras desconhecidas para manter a fluidez.

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta somente a(s) proposição(ões) CORRETA(S):

A Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) orienta o ensino de Língua Inglesa no Brasil sob uma perspectiva específica. Registre V, para as afirmativas verdadeiras, e F, para as falsas, sobre as diretrizes da BNCC:

(__)A BNCC posiciona o inglês como Língua Franca, reconhecendo seu papel na comunicação global entre falantes de diferentes línguas maternas, e não como uma língua pertencente apenas a falantes nativos (ex: EUA, Reino Unido).

(__)A abordagem de ensino alinhada à BNCC é a comunicativa, com foco no letramento e no uso social da língua em práticas de oralidade, leitura e escrita, superando o foco na gramática descontextualizada.

(__)A dimensão intercultural é central na BNCC, incentivando a reflexão crítica sobre a diversidade cultural e a identidade do próprio aluno.

(__)A BNCC determina que o único método a ser utilizado é o Gramática-Tradução, focando exclusivamente na leitura e tradução de textos literários.

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência correta, de cima para baixo.

A dimensão intercultural no ensino de Língua Inglesa, conforme preconizado pela Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC), vai além do ensino de "curiosidades" sobre países de língua inglesa. Qual é o objetivo central dessa abordagem?

Regarding methods and approaches to teaching the English language, correctly match the columns listed below to their corresponding methodological principles and practices, and then select the alternative that presents the correct order.

First column: methods

1.Direct Method

2.Audiolingual Method

3.Communicative Language Teaching

4.Lexical Approach

5.Community Language Learning

Second column: methodological principles and practices

(__)It involves teaching individual collocations of units, marking students aware of collocation, extending what students already know by adding knowledge of collocation restrictions to known vocabulary and storing collocations on a notebook.

(__)Language learning is learning to communicate, and the target linguistic system will be learned through the process of struggling to communicate.

(__)Classroom instruction is conducted exclusively in the target language, correct pronunciation and grammar are emphasized, while grammar is taught inductively.

(__)It focuses on oral skills, and the teaching of listening comprehension, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary are all related to the development of oral fluency.

(__)It can combine tasks such as group work, recording of the students' conversations in the target language, group or class reflections and reports regarding their experience of the class, and free conversation between learners or learners and teacher.

Select the option that presents the correct order of the associations:

Teaching English in the early years of primary education has specific features that differ from teaching adolescents or adults. Mark T for true and F for false:

(__)The main focus is raising awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity, using playful activities such as games, songs, and stories.

(__)The priority is explicit grammatical correction and the production of complex passive-voice sentences, aiming at academic proficiency.

(__)Contact with English broadens students' awareness of their own mother tongue (Portuguese) through contrast and comparison (metalinguistic awareness).

(__)The goal is to achieve full oral fluency and native-like pronunciation before 6th grade, this being the main indicator of success.

Select the option that shows the correct sequence, from top to bottom.

Skimming and scanning strategies are essential to optimize reading comprehension in English. Analyze the statements below:

I.Skimming is the strategy of reading a text quickly and superficially, focusing on elements such as titles, subtitles, cognates, and the first and last paragraphs, with the goal of grasping the main idea (the "gist").

II.Scanning is the strategy of rapidly searching for a specific piece of information in the text, such as a name, a date, a number, or a keyword, running one's eyes over the text without reading every word.

III.Skimming is the term used for detailed, analytical reading of a text, focusing on every word and grammatical structure for deep comprehension.

Which statements are correct?

Consider that some English words bear strong spelling and semantic similarities to some Brazilian Portuguese words because they share the same etymological root. These words are called "cognates". Based on this, select the only one alternative that correctly

Consider that some English words bear strong spelling and semantic similarities to some Brazilian Portuguese words because they share the same etymological root. These words are called "cognates". Based on this, select the only one alternative that correctly presents 5 examples of English cognate words found in Text 2:

According to Jesus (2016), in the past decade, the issue of difference has been addressed from various theoretical perspectives (COPE; KALANTZIS, 2000; MONTE MÓR, 2008; MENEZES DE SOUSA; ANDREOTTI, 2008), which clearly demonstrates the need to question and understand our social lives in a supposedly globalized world. English Language Training (ELT) research has shown that the English language classroom has become a rich scenario to develop studies which focus on critical education and which reassess language teaching practices and curricula in a way that they are more responsive to diversity. [...] Therefore, there are mandatory subjects in teacher education undergraduate courses. Despite the advancement of such policies, ELT teachers' pre-service courses continue to produce curricula based on the four traditional communicative skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) and on well-defined grammar sequences. This type of curriculum maintains a linear view of learning, avoiding the complexity of the issue of diversity in ELT contexts. (JESUS, 2016).

Choose the statement that DOES NOT represent the conception that Jesus (2016) argues for in the teaching about differences in English classes.

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is generally regarded as an approach to language teaching (RICHARDS AND RODGERS, 2001). As such, CLT reflects a certain model or research paradigm, or a theory (CELCE MURCIA, 2001). It is based on the theory that the primary function of language use is communication. lts primary goal is for learners to develop communicative competence (HYMES, 1971), or simply put, communicative ability. In other words, its goal is to make use of real-life situations that necessitate communication. (...) Communicative competence is defined as the ability to interpret and enact appropriate social behaviors, and it requires the active involvement of the learner in the production of the target language (CANALE AND SWAIN, 1980; CELCE-MURCIA ET AL., 1995; HYMES, 1972). (apud BRANDL, 2008)

The quotation brings some reflection about CLT. Choose the statement that DOES NOT point out a competence that guides a learner to develop their communicative competence.

The Linguistic Knowledge axis, according to the BNCC text, prioritizes the study of English language in a contextualized manner, considering notions such as "adequacy," "standard," and "linguistic variation".

Read the text below.

The postmethod condition is a sustainable state of affairs that compels us to fundamentally restructure our view of language teaching and teacher education. It urges us to review the character and content of classroom teaching in all its pedagogical and ideological perspectives. It drives us to streamline our teacher education by refiguring the reified relationship between theory and practice.

KUMARAVADIVELU, B. Understanding language teaching: from method to postmethod. Marhwah: Erlbaum, 2006. in: Language teacher education for a global society. Routledge: Taylor& Francis, 2012, p. 170.

So, Postmethod Pedagogy is a three-dimensional system consisting of three pedagogic parameters: