Questões de Concurso

The use of authentic materials in the classroom can be beneficial to the learner because of the real language exposure supporting a more creative approach to teaching, the possibility of practicing skimming and scanning, the encouragement to reading for pleasure, among others. Nevertheless, using authentic materials in ESP classes can also have some disadvantages, such as:

In relation to designing translation courses, three approaches, or three organizing principles can be followed: (1) the inductive approach, (2) the deductive approach, or (3) the functional approach. Associate the approaches (1), (2) and (3) on the right column, to the propositions that characterize them on the left column.

(1) the inductive approach

(2) the deductive approach

(3) the functional approach

( ) Teaching is based on certain topics related to translation techniques

( ) Teachers decide what skills are necessary for translation and aim to develop these skills without necessarily using translation tasks.

( ) In this approach, teaching does not begin with a text but with a translation problem

( ) The process of teaching is organized by text-selection

( ) In this approach teaching is organized around particular skills to be developed

( ) Since in a text-based class only problems occurring in the given text appear, it might happen that important translation problems remain untackled.

The CORRECT sequence, from top to bottom, is:

The following are aspects or concerns of a Genre Approach to English as a second language:

I. The relationship between texts and their contexts.

II. The purpose or intention of a text.

III. Reader has the main role.

IV. Writing as a social activity.

V. Teacher’s role is authoritarian.

Choose the CORRECT option:

Raimes (1998) classifies the teaching practices of writing in L2 according to four main focuses: the form, the author, the content and the reader. Associate the column on the right side to the column on the left.

(1) This approach links writing to the content of the student's area of study, seeking to teach the specific rhetorical conventions of the subject.

(2) This approach understands that writing is influenced by the values, expectations and conventions of the discourse communities that will consume the written work.

(3) This proposal is centered on the final product, which should show the domain of certain grammatical, semantic and rhetorical.

(4) This proposal focuses on the process and use of cognitive strategies for producing texts. This is why it is called a "procedural" proposal, which emphasizes a pedagogy focused on the planning and development of ideas and the production of multiple drafts of a text, giving relevance to the recursive, non-linear character of writing.

( ) The form

( ) The author

( ) The content

( ) The reader

The CORRECT sequence, from top to bottom, is: