Questões de Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension para Concurso

According to Richards; Rodgers (2001, p.16) “approaches and methods can be studied not as prescriptions for how to teach but as a source of well-used practices, which teachers can adapt or implement based on their own needs”.

Read the following statements about five current communicative approaches and check if they are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).

( ) The Communicative Language Teaching approach states that learning is a process of creative construction and involves trial and error.

( ) According to the Natural Approach, a focus on comprehension and meaningful communication as well as the provision of the right kinds of comprehensible input provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for successful classroom second and foreign language acquisition.

( ) Cooperative learning is the instructional use of small groups through which students work together without accomplishing shared goals.

( ) Content-Based Instruction refers to an approach to second language teaching in which teaching is organized around the substance or subject matter that students learn or communicate through language rather than the language used to convey it.

( ) In the Task-based Language Teaching approach the activities and tasks can be either those that learners might need to achieve in real life or those that have a pedagogical purpose specific to the classroom.

Choose the alternative which CORRECTLY shows if the statements are TRUE or FALSE:

In the following sentence, choose the right explanation about “would” in the options below: “As a result, we anticipated that it would be informative to describe how a self-selected online forum could advance adults' literacies.”

In the following context, how can you replace the verb “enroll” in the options below? “The interviews presented in this article are a portion of a data set from a larger study in which I surveyed 177 students enrolled in a first-year college writing course at a rural, midsize Midwestern state university, asking about their uses of digital tools for nonacademic reading and writing purposes.”

According to Brazilian PCN, it should become important to remember that:

Read the following fragment and give a comprehension to the phrasal verb “cheer up”: “She was very disappointed, but faced up bravely to the situation. In fact, when Chris, Sara, Michael and I visited her in hospital, so, that was she who cheered us up and made us laugh! I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before.” (Life, love and laughter. Horne, Molly. Braunton)