Questões de Concurso

In English, the expression of hours varies according to the communicative context, employing structures such as "quarter past", "quarter to", and "half past". The expression "quarter past seven in the evening" corresponds, in the 24-hour format, to:

The linguistic variation of the English Language encompasses differences in use linked to region, social context, and medium of communication, including digital environments where netspeak emerges. Regarding this topic, mark T for the true statements and F for the false statements:

(__) English, as a global language, constitutes a standardized international norm, adopted uniformly in all English-speaking countries, with equivalent everyday uses among the different speech communities.

(__) Netspeak integrates abbreviations, acronyms, and emoticons as resources of digital communication, configuring a register that coexists with other registers of the language in distinct contexts of use.

(__) The reflection on linguistic variation and on English as a global language, in school teaching, contributes to the recognition of the plurality of uses of the language in different social and cultural contexts.

(__) The variations of English spoken in different regions of the world configure deviations from a pure norm of British English and must be corrected in the teaching and learning process of the language.

After analysis, choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence of the items above, from top to bottom:

This part of educational process is extremely important and is the most superior method of intellectual education. Learning Activity Planning represents a:

“In many Brazilian public universities, English instruction has historically prioritized the development of strategic reading abilities, enabling learners to extract relevant information from academic texts in their fields, rather than pursuing full oral fluency.” (Excerpt adapted from: Celani [1988]; Ramos [2005]. “Brazilian ESP tradition”)
The pedagogical orientation described aligns most closely with:

“An adequate theory of language pedagogy must extend beyond grammatical mastery and account for the sociocultural rules governing appropriateness, discourse cohesion, and strategic resourcefulness in real-life interaction.” (Excerpt adapted from: Hymes,1972, On Communicative Competence; Canale & Swain, 1980, Theoretical Bases of Communicative Approaches to Second Language Teaching and Testing.)
The theoretical construct being operationalized in the excerpt is: