Questões de Concurso sobre Língua Inglesa e Educação

Braj Kachru's "Three Circles of English" model is a cornerstone for understanding the spread of English and multiculturalism in ELT. Select the alternative that correctly identifies the composition of the "Outer Circle" and its implication for teaching standards.

In a grammar exercise, the teacher wants students to choose the correct quantifier for countable plural nouns. Which option is appropriate for this focus?

In a culture-focused lesson, students discuss how people greet each other in Brazil and in Englishspeaking countries, comparing gestures and expressions. The main objective of this activity is to develop:

A lesson compares “Would you mind closing the window?” with “Close the window, please.” The teacher is working mainly with:

Academic genres possess specific communicative purposes and structural moves that must be mastered for effective production and comprehension in educational settings. Choose the option that correctly describes the primary communicative function of an "Abstract" in the context of an academic research paper.

Viewing oral communication as a form of literacy implies understanding speech not just as a skill but as a situated social practice involving interaction and negotiation. Choose the alternative that correctly describes the pedagogical implication of this perspective for the English classroom.

In the context of English Language Teaching (ELT), the concept of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) proposed by authors like Michael Byram emphasizes that learning a language is inseparable from understanding its culture. When a teacher promotes activities that require students to mediate between their own culture and the target culture, avoiding essentialist stereotypes, they are fostering a specific skill. Select the alternative that correctly identifies the component of Byram's model related to the ability to interpret a document or event from another culture, to explain it and relate it to documents or events from one's own.

Os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCN) para Língua Estrangeira enfatizam determinadas habilidades como prioritárias no contexto escolar brasileiro. A escolha metodológica coerente com esse documento deve privilegiar, sobretudo:

O conceito de gênero textual, conforme abordado no ensino de Língua Inglesa, pressupõe a compreensão de que os textos:

The Curricular Guidelines for High School - MT (2012, p.90) approach some effects of global expansion of English language teaching around the world. According to them, the expansion of English in the world and its relationship with other languages was not something innocent. It is solidly rooted in the colonial period of the British Empire and in ideological arguments related to language teaching in the world to promote capitalist interests.

From those considerations, it is CORRECT to say that:

Mato Grosso. Secretaria de Estado de Educação. Orientações Curriculares: Área de Linguagens: Educação Básica. Cuiabá: Gráfica Print, 2012.

According to some applied linguists, CLT was a very important approach, but it has some critical points that should be considered. Choose the item(s) that point(s) the criticism to the CLT approach.

I. Difficulties in defining which functions of language (or which tasks) should be presented to students (and in which sequence).

Il. Dividing teaching into functions of language or tasks brings the negative argument of teaching atomization, i.e., of breaking the language in small pieces that do not form a coherent whole.

III. The debate ifit is possible to have “real-life communication” in a classroom setting.

IV. The inability of CLT to adapt to the various contexts of language teaching, such as cultural contexts that posit a hierarchy between students and teachers.

Choose the CORRECT alternative.

PIAZZA, Paulo Thiago. The historical development of english as a foreign language teaching in brazilian schools: methods and legal documents. Revista Contribuciones a Las Ciencias Sociales, São José dos Pinhais, v.17, n.6, p. 01-23, 2024. Disponível em: https://ojs.revistacontribucio- nes.com/ojs/index.php/cs. Acesso em: 10 mai. 2025.

Lev Vygotsky's socio-constructivist theory emphasizes the importance of social interaction in cognitive development. Regarding the concepts of "Zone of Proximal Development" (ZPD) and mediation in language learning, mark T, for true, and F, for false:

(__)The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) is the distance between what a learner can do without help and what they can achieve with the guidance and encouragement of a more knowledgeable other (MKO).

(__)In the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching, mediation occurs only through the use of technological tools like computers or tablets, excluding the teacher's verbal interventions as a form of mediation.

(__)For effective mediation to occur, the teacher must provide tasks that are far beyond the student's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), ensuring that the learner feels frustrated enough to seek independent solutions.

(__)Socio-constructivist mediation suggests that peer interaction during group activities in the English classroom can facilitate the internalisation of new linguistic structures through collaborative dialogue.

After analysis, mark the option that presents the CORRECT sequence from top to bottom:

Stuart Hall's "Encoding/Decoding" model challenges the linear transmission of media messages, suggesting that audiences actively interpret content based on their cultural backgrounds. In the context of an English class analyzing a news report, analyze the following statements regarding the three hypothetical positions from which decodings of a televisual discourse may be constructed.

I.The "Dominant-Hegemonic Position" occurs when the student takes the connoted meaning full and straight, decoding the message in terms of the reference code in which it has been encoded, accepting the preferred reading.

II.The "Negotiated Position" acknowledges the legitimacy of the hegemonic definitions to make the grand significations, but, at a more restricted, situational level, makes its own ground rules and operates with exceptions to the rule.

III.The "Oppositional Position" occurs when the student understands the preferred reading but rejects it entirely, decoding the message within an alternative frame of reference, often due to political or social disagreements.

Is/Are correct the statement(s):

Regarding the teaching of English in the BNCC, it is correct to state that:

Reading strategies in the English Language Teaching context often involve specific cognitive processes such as scanning, skimming, and predicting. However, a less frequently discussed but vital technique for advanced critical literacy is the "Socratic Questioning" method applied to texts, which aims to uncover underlying assumptions and perspectives within a passage. Considering the development of high-level reading skills, choose the correct alternative regarding reading strategies.

A inferência lexical é uma estratégia de leitura crucial quando o aluno se depara com vocabulário desconhecido. Analise o seguinte trecho: 'The ornithologist spent hours observing the sparrow through his binoculars.' Mesmo sem saber o significado exato de 'sparrow', o aluno pode inferir sua categoria semântica baseando-se no contexto. Assinale a alternativa que indica a inferência correta sobre a palavra destacada, baseada nas pistas contextuais (ornithologist, observing, binoculars).

Analyze the following assertions made by Brown, in Teaching by Principles, about the characteristics of communicative language teaching.

I- Language techniques are not designed to engage learners in the pragmatic, authentic, functional use of language for meaningful purposes.

II- The role of the teacher is that of facilitator and guide, not an all-knowing bestower of knowledge; students are therefore encouraged to construct meaning through genuine linguistic interaction with others.

III- Students lack opportunities to focus on their own learning process through an understanding of their own styles of learning and through the development of appropriate strategies for autonomous learning.

IV- Fluency and accuracy are seen as complementary principles underlying communicative techniques; at times fluency may have to take on more importance than accuracy in order to keep learners meaningfully engaged in language use.

V- Classroom goals are focused on all the components (grammatical, discourse, functional, sociolinguistic, and strategic) of communicative competence; goals therefore must intertwine the organizational aspects of language with the pragmatic.

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A Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) para o componente de Língua Inglesa estabelece cinco eixos organizadores que estruturam as competências e habilidades a serem desenvolvidas. Ao tratar do status da Língua Inglesa, o documento traz uma definição específica. Assinale a alternativa correta.

Task-Based Learning (TBL) is a pedagogical framework that focuses on the use of authentic language to complete meaningful tasks. In this approach, the four skills are naturally integrated. Identify the correct statement about the TBL cycle.

Daria's testimony provides insight into the teaching practices she encountered at the school in Wrocław. Evaluate the statements regarding the educational practices described:

I. The teachers' performance of epistemic humility—publicly acknowledging knowledge limitations and errors—functions to democratize the classroom power structure and reduce student anxiety about their own imperfect knowledge.

II. Daria's characterization of teacher behavior as "very natural and supportive" following their apologies indicates that pedagogical vulnerability enhances rather than undermines instructional authority.

III. The text implies that this collaborative learning approach was specifically designed as a refugee integration strategy rather than reflecting the school's general pedagogical philosophy.

IV. The bilingual school psychologist's presence represented a sufficient condition for psychological adaptation, rendering the teachers' collaborative approach supplementary rather than essential.

Which combination contains statements supported by the text?