Questões de Concurso sobre Língua Inglesa e Educação

What is an important step in the writing process?

Read the following sentence and choose the concept that fits the definition given:

The _____________ approach, initially proposed by the New London Group in the mid-1990s, goes beyond traditional reading and writing. It incorporates visual, digital, spatial, and cultural knowledge that reflect the complexity of modern communication. This approach highlights learner-centered environments that cultivate critical thinking, intercultural awareness, and digital competence.

An English teacher identified that a Brazilian student consistently misused the word "actually" as a direct translation of the Portuguese "atualmente," producing sentences such as "Actually, the unemployment rate has increased significantly," when intending to express the idea of "at the present time." The teacher clarified that "actually" is a false cognate meaning "in fact" or "in reality" — used to correct or emphasize information — and that the correct English adverb to convey the temporal meaning of "atualmente" is:

The Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) organizes the learning of English in the final years of Elementary School around specific axes. Mark the CORRECT alternative.

De acordo com as diretrizes atuais para o ensino de Língua Inglesa na Educação Básica brasileira (como a BNCC), o idioma deve ser concebido e ensinado como:

Um professor orienta seus alunos do 9º ano a lerem rapidamente um texto em inglês apenas para extrair a "ideia principal" (o assunto geral), sem se deterem em palavras desconhecidas ou detalhes específicos. Essa estratégia de leitura é tecnicamente conhecida como:

Considering Kumaravadivelu’s view, the statement that accurately describes the post-method approach is:

Identifique abaixo as afirmativas verdadeiras ( V ) e falsas ( F ) acerca do tema O Ensino de Língua Inglesa na Educação Básica, conforme a Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC).

( ) A BNCC compreende o ensino de Língua Inglesa como um meio de ampliar a participação dos estudantes em práticas sociais mediadas pela linguagem, em contextos locais e globais.

( ) O ensino de Língua Inglesa, segundo a BNCC, deve restringir-se ao desenvolvimento de estruturas gramaticais e vocabulário, priorizando a correção formal da língua.

( ) A BNCC propõe o desenvolvimento integrado das habilidades de compreensão oral, leitura, produção escrita e expressão oral, considerando diferentes gêneros discursivos.

( ) O ensino de Língua Inglesa na Educação Básica deve promover a reflexão crítica sobre usos da língua, identidades culturais e diversidade linguística.

( ) A BNCC recomenda que os conteúdos de Língua Inglesa sejam trabalhados de forma descontextualizada para evitar interferências da língua materna.

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

Analyze the sentences below about reading strategies, text genres, communicative approaches, and reading activities.

1. The activity that best integrates listening and speaking skills is role-plays based on audio or video input.

2. The reading strategy Scanning, is most effective when a learner wants to identify the main idea of a text quickly.

3. Teachers should consider the purpose, audience, and structure of each genre when working with different text genres in reading activities.

4. In process-oriented writing, the stage that typically involves feedback and revision is drafting.

5. According to communicative approaches, errors in oral production should be viewed as part of the learning process.

Choose the alternative which contains the correct affirmatives.

Text I

African schools gear up for the AI revolution

1 The emergence of cheap or free AI tools is being eagerly embraced by those with smartphones and the ability to get online. As governments and legislators struggle to get their heads around the implications of this powerful technology and work out how to bring in regulations for its safe use, millions of people are enjoying its ability to save time, helping them to transforming raw data into essays, exam answers, or, with a bit more work, even videos and podcasts.

2 Even in developing countries where electricity and internet access is limited (it’s estimated that over 570 million people in Africa lack electricity), there is enthusiasm for the potential of AI. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), for example, a nation riven by internal conflict, poverty and vast inequality, educators are seeing the impact of AI. “It is obvious that our country is lagging behind in terms of new technologies for one reason or another,” says Benjamin Sivanzire, a teacher in Beni, North Kivu Province. “Many parts of the DRC do not even have traditional methods of communication, or even radio or television.” However, even though Mr. Sivanzire and his students are not yet able to make use of AI in their classes, they are seeing it being used in the wider culture, often in a negative way, to manipulate public opinion. The teacher underlines the importance of educating people to distinguish between verifiable information and lies. “There are videos created by artificial intelligence that show images that are not real and have been created for propaganda purposes,” he explains.

3 One concern that is frequently raised is the extent to which the development of AI tools is concentrated in the hands of a relatively small group of people. Farida Shahid, the independent Special Rapporteur on the right to education, shares these concerns. “AI algorithms are being made by individuals who often sit in a particular location, such as Silicon Valley, where the people who make and test them have their own biases,” she says. “Often the algorithms don’t do well at recognizing people with dark skin. They also have great problems with people who are autistic and don’t like looking into cameras. “Another example is the UK where, recently, an AI program was used to grade exam papers. This led to decisions that were biased against people from certain ethnic backgrounds. We really need to look at this issue more closely, starting with the human rights perspective, and I think that’s where the U.N. role comes in: if you increasingly rely on AI as the source of verification, you’re going to have problems because you are using a framework which privileges white males, and doesn’t reflect the whole gamut of people’s lives and experiences”.

4 The urgent need to expand the developer talent base has been identified by the UN as central to ensuring that a wide variety of voices are heard in the “EdTech” (educational technology) space. Shafika Isaacs, the head of technology and AI at the UN agency for science, technology and education (UNESCO), says that the number of African EdTech startups has been mushrooming in recent years, with entrepreneurs experimenting with the AIenabled digital tools which could support learning and teaching across many different contexts, including in African languages, and local dialects. “I’ve personally engaged with a startup that matches high school students to career pathways, including choosing the right university, community college or even entrepreneurship program. They have seen strong results because of their focus on children in underprivileged contexts and schools. Tech startups have also looked at developing AI-enabled mobile apps, including chat bots, that can support teachers in teaching literacy or teaching mathematics. “The challenge is that there’s often a disconnect between the public education system and tech startups. We need educators to be proactive in engaging with those developing tools, and we encourage students and teachers to learn how to create and design technologies that are relevant to their linguistic and cultural contexts.”

5 Many African governments are keen to adopt national AI strategies and integrate AI into their national policies on technologies in education. In Côte d’Ivoire, where AI is already being widely used in the private sector, Mariatou Koné, the Minister of Education, says that the country’s education system is undergoing a transformation, following a 2022 review which recommended a digitalization strategy. “We have put in place initiatives to ensure that everyone is aware of the issue of AI. It can provide individual learning programs, and help struggling students to improve,” said Ms. Koné. “However, we are worried about potential abuses. We have to be able to protect personal data and ensure that learners are aware of the potential dangers.” The Minister agrees that, in order to guard against bias, the pool of engineers building AI tools needs to be expanded. “We need the right tools, adapted to the African context, to the Ivorian context. We have our own history, our own heritage. If we create our own industry, it has to be adapted to the realities of Côte d’Ivoire.”

Available at: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1159621. Retrieved on: January 6, 2026. Adapted.

A high school English teacher in a public school in Salvador, Bahia, decides to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into a project about “Local Heroes:” Students use free AI tools to generate draft biographies and then transform that data into multimodal outputs, such as short videos and social media posts. However, the teacher notices that the AI-generated images for “heroes” consistently depict individuals who do not reflect the diverse Afro-Brazilian population of their community.

Considering that situation, the pedagogical action that best aligns with the ideas discussed in Text I and the concepts of multiliteracies and critical literacy is:

Considering the current official Brazilian curriculum policy documents, the classroom scenario that best reflects the pedagogical implications of the theoretical shift from English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is:

Por habilidades comunicativas no Ensino de Língua Inglesa, considera-se as distintas capacidades que se tem para a comunicação. Cabe salientar que comunicação significa a transmissão de pensamento num dado conjunto de formas ou meios em que o remetente de determinada mensagem se faz entendido pelo destinatário, a partir de uma produção comunicativa. Assim como as formas de comunicação, outro fator decisivo que deve existir é:

Métodos e abordagens de ensino de língua estrangeira estão tradicionalmente ligados às necessidades de um determinado contexto sócio histórico. Quando é transposto para a área de ensino e aprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras, esse conceito embasa a Abordagem Comunicativa. Por isso, diferentemente da abordagem tradicional de ensino que visava ao uso correto da língua, a abordagem comunicativa objetiva:

A BNCC enfatiza que o ensino de Inglês deve promover o "Multiletramento". No contexto do texto, isso significa que o aluno deve ser capaz de:

A BNCC orienta que o ensino de Língua Inglesa no Ensino Fundamental deve priorizar:

Which alternative characterizes the approach in which a teacher asks students to find examples of the present tense in a text and later try to work out the grammar rules?

The product of a students' learning may be measured at a particular time in order to point out what learners can achieve or how much they know at a given stage. Alternatively, it's possible to identify students' skills focusing on the learning process. These two types of assessment are called, respectively:

Stephen Krashen propôs o 'Monitor Model' (Modelo do Monitor), uma das teorias mais influentes sobre a aquisição de segunda língua, que diferencia aquisição de aprendizagem e estabelece hipóteses sobre como o processo ocorre. Assim, analise as afirmativas a seguir.

I.A Hipótese do Input (Input Hypothesis) postula que a aquisição ocorre quando o aprendiz é exposto a uma linguagem que está ligeiramente além do seu nível atual de competência (i+1).

II.A Hipótese do Filtro Afetivo sugere que variáveis emocionais como ansiedade, motivação e autoconfiança podem facilitar ou bloquear a entrada do input compreensível no dispositivo de aquisição da linguagem.

III.Segundo a Hipótese da Aprendizagem vs. Aquisição, a aprendizagem é um processo subconsciente e natural, semelhante a como as crianças adquirem a língua materna, enquanto a aquisição é o conhecimento formal e consciente das regras.

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta somente as proposições CORRETAS:

Diferentes métodos de ensino marcaram a história da glotodidática. O 'Task-Based Learning' (TBL (Task-Based Learning) - Aprendizagem Baseada em Tarefas) é uma abordagem contemporânea relevante. Analise as assertivas sobre o ciclo do TBL.

I.A etapa de 'Pre-task' serve para introduzir o tópico e preparar os alunos com vocabulário essencial, sem necessariamente ensinar a gramática explicitamente neste momento.

II.Durante a etapa de 'Task Cycle' (Ciclo da Tarefa), os alunos realizam a tarefa comunicativa em pares ou grupos, com foco na fluência e no significado, enquanto o professor monitora.

III.A etapa final, 'Language Focus' (Foco na Linguagem), é o momento de analisar e praticar aspectos linguísticos específicos que surgiram durante a execução da tarefa.

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta somente as proposições CORRETAS:

Leia o texto a seguir.

Digital tools powered by AI are increasingly used to support language learning classrooms. Instead of replacing communicative activities, these tools offer new opportunities for students to engage in simulated dialogues, receive instant feedback, and experiment with multiple forms of expression. Teachers report that AI expands the possibilities for personalized tasks, reinforcing the principles of communicative and task-based approaches.

EDUTOPIA. How AI tools support language learning in the classroom. 2024. Disponível em: https://www.edutopia.org. Acesso em: 10 fev. 2025. (Fonte inspirada: Edutopia / TESOL Blog, 2024).

Com base no excerto, o uso de ferramentas digitais, impulsionadas por inteligência artificial, se relaciona a abordagens de ensino que