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Read the dialogue below.
A: Could I ask you the time, please?
B: No problem. It’s quarter past four.
Observing the function above as asking for something, it is correct to say that:
“Jack wants to be a soccer player and Julie wants to be a movie star. A palavra é:
I. Estão corretas a grafia e a tradução do trecho a seguir em inglês: the photograph has not come (a fotografia não saiu). II. Estão corretas a grafia e a tradução do trecho a seguir em inglês: he knows his own mind (ele sabe o que quer). III. Baseado nas ideias de Vygotsky, a aquisição de conhecimentos de Língua Inglesa não passa pela interação do sujeito com o meio.
Marque a alternativa CORRETA:
I. Comunicar-se na Língua Inglesa, por meio do uso variado de linguagens em mídias impressas ou digitais, reconhecendo-a como uma ferramenta que impede o acesso ao conhecimento, que reduz as perspectivas e as possibilidades para a compreensão dos valores e interesses de outras culturas e para o exercício do protagonismo social, é uma competência que pode ser desenvolvida pelo estudante de Língua Inglesa ao longo do Ensino Fundamental. II. No trecho "in full swing" ocorre um verbo cujo significado é "inspecionar" ou "revisar". III. A avaliação em Língua Inglesa não deve possibilitar observar a transferência das aprendizagens em contextos diferentes.
Marque a alternativa CORRETA:
I. Em linhas gerais, a aprendizagem de Língua Inglesa deve diminuir o conhecimento sobre linguagem que o aluno construiu sobre sua língua materna, por meio de comparações com essa língua estrangeira em vários níveis. II. Estão corretas a grafia e a tradução do trecho a seguir em inglês: that comes in useful (isto chega em boa hora).
Marque a alternativa CORRETA:
I. Está correta a grafia do trecho a seguir em inglês: kite a buzines (não é tão fácil). II. A avaliação em Língua Inglesa não deve ser realizada com o auxílio de tabelas ou do diário de classe.
Marque a alternativa CORRETA:
Read the two cartoons and answer questions.
Text VIII
“When I first lived in Saudi Arabia, I tended to answer questions in Arabic about my health (the equivalent of ‘ ‘How are you’?) with the equivalent of my familiar routine responses of ‘Okay’ or ‘Fine’. However, I eventually noticed that when I asked a similar question, people generally answered with a phrase that had the literal meaning of ‘Praise to God’. I soon learned to use the new expression, wanting to be pragmatically appropriate in that context. My first type of answer wasn't ‘wrong’ (my vocabulary and pronunciation weren't inaccurate), but it did convey the meaning that I was a social outsider who answered in an unexpected way.”
(YULE, G. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. pp.5.)
Text VIII
“When I first lived in Saudi Arabia, I tended to answer questions in Arabic about my health (the equivalent of ‘ ‘How are you’?) with the equivalent of my familiar routine responses of ‘Okay’ or ‘Fine’. However, I eventually noticed that when I asked a similar question, people generally answered with a phrase that had the literal meaning of ‘Praise to God’. I soon learned to use the new expression, wanting to be pragmatically appropriate in that context. My first type of answer wasn't ‘wrong’ (my vocabulary and pronunciation weren't inaccurate), but it did convey the meaning that I was a social outsider who answered in an unexpected way.”
(YULE, G. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. pp.5.)
Text VII
The term ‘assessment literacy’ has been coined in recent years to denote what teachers need to know about assessment. Traditionally, it was regarded as the ability to select, design and evaluate tests and assessment procedures, as well as to score and grade them on the basis of theoretical knowledge. More recent approaches embrace a broader understanding of the concept when taking account of the implications of assessment for teaching. […] Knowing and understanding the key principles of sound assessment and translating those into quality information about students’ achievements and effective instruction are considered essential.
(BERGER, A. Creating Language ‐ Assessment Literacy: A Model for Teacher Education. In: HÜTTNER, J.; MEHLMAUER‐LARCHER, B.; REICH, S. (eds.) Theory and Practice in EFL Teaching Education: Bridging the Gap. Multilingual Matters, 2012. pp.57‐82.)
Text VI.
Critical Discourse Analysis
We have seen that among many other resources that define the power base of a group or institution, access to or control over public discourse and communication is an important "symbolic" resource, as is the case for knowledge and information (van Dijk 1996). Most people have active control only over everyday talk with family members, friends, or colleagues, and passive control over, e.g. media usage. In many situations, ordinary people are more or less passive targets of text and talk, e.g. of their bosses or teachers, or of the authorities, such as police officers, judges, welfare bureaucrats, or tax inspectors, who may simply tell them what (not) to believe or what to do.
On the other hand, members of more powerful social groups and institutions, and especially their leaders (the elites), have more or less exclusive access to, and control over, one or more types of public discourse. Thus, professors control scholarly discourse, teachers educational discourse, journalists media discourse, lawyers legal discourse, and politicians policy and other public political discourse. Those who have more control over more ‒ and more influential ‒ discourse (and more properties) are by that definition also more powerful.
These notions of discourse access and control are very general, and it is one of the tasks of CDA to spell out these forms of power. Thus, if discourse is defined in terms of complex communicative events, access and control may be defined both for the context and for the structures of text and talk themselves.
(van DIJK, T. A. Critical Discourse Analysis. In: SCHIFFRIN, D.; TANNEN, D.; HAMILTON, H. (eds.). The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Wiley‐Blackwell, 2003. pp. 352‐371.)
A cohesive text is created in many different ways. Halliday and Hasan (1976) identify five general categories of cohesive devices that create coherence in texts. The sentence below introduces prominently one of those categories. Which is it?
“[…] professors control scholarly discourse, teachers educational discourse, journalists media discourse, and politicians policy and other public political discourse.” (§ 2)
Text III
Different ways of reading include:
● ______________ […]: rapidly reading a text in order to get the gist, or the main ideas or sense of a text. For example,
a reader might use this strategy when reading a film review in order to see if the reviewer liked the film or not.
● ______________: reading a text in search of specific information, and ignoring everything else, such as when consulting a bus timetable for a particular time and destination.
[…]
A teaching approach, […], aims to help learners to become more effective readers by training them in the sub‐skills of reading, and by teaching them reading strategies. Some of the sub‐skills of reading are:
● using contextual and extra‐linguistic information (such as pictures, layout, headlines) to make ______________ regarding what the text is about
● understanding words and identifying their grammatical function
● guessing the meaning of words from context
● recognizing grammar features, such as ______________, and ‘unpacking’ the syntax of sentences
● identifying the topic of the text, recognizing topic changes
●identifying text‐type, text purpose, and text organization, and identifying and understanding ______________ and other cohesive devices (…)
● identifying key information from less important information
● inferring the writer’s attitude
● identifying what ______________ in a text refer to.
(THORNBURY, S. An A‐Z of ELT – A dictionary of terms and concepts used in English Language Teaching. Oxford: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2006. pp. 190‐191.)
Identify the correct sequence of the missing words in the text:
( 1 ) word endings
( 2 ) predictions
( 3 ) skimming
( 4 ) discourse markers
( 5 ) scanning
( 6 ) pronouns
Text I
Critical Literacy and Foreign Language Education
Understanding the basic principles of Critical Literacy is vital for establishing a viable relationship between EFL teaching and the general (critical) education of the individual. Critical literacy supporters conceive literacy in broader socio‐cultural and political terms. Critical literacy is mainly derived from post‐structuralism, critical social theory and critical pedagogy. From post‐structuralism, critical literacy has borrowed its methods of critique and the understanding of texts as ideological constructions embedded within discursive systems. Based on critical social theory, critical literacy sees texts as continually subjected to methods of social critique. Finally, because of the influence of critical pedagogy, critical literacy practices need to draw on social justice, freedom, and equity as central concerns. As I am discussing critical literacy and language education in Brazilian contexts, I will highlight the contributions of Paulo Freire's Critical Pedagogy. Freire's contributions to the conceptualization of critical literacy are fundamental, as critical literacy essentially determines a different attitude towards reading. Reading the word is not enough. As stated in Freire's work, reading the word and reading the world should be intrinsically related, as any text is embedded in comprehensive contexts of social, historical, and power relations that generate it. Moreover, the critical reading of the word within the world, and vice‐versa, is a tool for social transformation. Consequently, critical pedagogies to literacy centralize issues of social justice and emancipation. How does critical pedagogy enlighten the roles to be played by EFL teaching in the education, for example, about race relations?
A major concern of Freire's critical pedagogy as well as for other educators committed to critical forms of education is the development of "critical consciousness." Through critical consciousness, students should come to recognize and feel disposed to remake their own identities and sociopolitical realities through their own meaning‐making processes and through their actions in the world. Ultimately, critical literacy is an instrument of power and provides a possibility of transforming the society if the empowered individual wants to.
Considering the status of English as a lingua franca, materials, especially those de‐signed by publishers in the US and UK, are used for organizing lessons around topics that can be included in classroom activities without causing discomfort, so that the same textbook series can be sold to different parts of the world. Some publishers even have lists of banned topics or rely informally on the acronym PARSNIP (politics, alcohol, religion, sex, narcotics, isms, and pork) as a rule of thumb.
The convention of avoidance, then, is related to problems that tend to be purposefully neglected and are those that customarily are the most meaningful issues in real world students' lives. The avoided topics are also close to the ones suggested by OCEM as topics that should be present in Brazilian schools to promote critical literacy. Teachers of English, as well as any other teacher, face, in their daily teaching, educational challenges that go beyond the imagined protected spaces of schools and the imagined worlds portrayed in textbooks. What seems to be relevant in students' lives are not necessarily common topics included in EFL textbooks, such as ‘Mr. Smith's weekend' or ‘global warming', although these can be considered valid topics to be discussed in classrooms.
Considering all these challenges, it is necessary to define the role of teacher education in this process. Teachers should be seen as transformative agents and their education should be focused upon this perspective. This encompasses the traditional contents of sociology of education, psychology of education, educational legislation and other subjects. But, the specific weight on ELT needs to entail criticism of current practices and suggestions for creating new ones.
(JORGE, M. Critical literacy, foreign language teaching and the education about race relations in Brazil. In: The Latin Americanist, vol. 56, 4, December 2012, pp. 79‐90. Available in: https://www.academia.edu . Accessed on September 24th, 2014.)
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