Questões de Concurso Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês

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Q2385594 Inglês
        “Deste modo, considerar o desenvolvimento de habilidades orais como central no ensino de Língua Estrangeira no Brasil não leva em conta o critério de relevância social para a sua aprendizagem. Com exceção da situação específica de algumas regiões turísticas ou de algumas comunidades plurilíngues, o uso de uma língua estrangeira parece estar, em geral, mais vinculado à leitura de literatura técnica ou de lazer. Note-se também que os únicos exames formais em Língua Estrangeira (vestibular e admissão a cursos de pós-graduação) requerem o domínio da habilidade de leitura. Portanto, a leitura atende, por um lado, às necessidades da educação formal, e, por outro, é a habilidade que o aluno pode usar em seu contexto social imediato. Além disso, a aprendizagem de leitura em Língua Estrangeira pode ajudar o desenvolvimento integral do letramento do aluno. A leitura tem função primordial na escola e aprender a ler em outra língua pode colaborar no desempenho do aluno como leitor em sua língua materna”.



(BRASIL. Secretaria de Educação Fundamental.
Parâmetros curriculares nacionais: terceiro e quarto
ciclos do ensino fundamental: língua estrangeira.
Secretaria de Educação Fundamental. Brasília:
MEC/SEF, 1998, p. 20).
O ensino das quatro habilidades em língua estrangeira, conforme aponta o documento, propicia um desenvolvimento integral das potencialidades dos estudantes. Todavia, há fatores que dificultam o trabalho do professor de língua estrangeira na escola pública. Sendo assim, assinale a alternativa que NÃO apresenta tais fatores.
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Q2385591 Inglês
       “Language teachers may ask themselves why should they bother writing plans for every lesson. Some teachers write down elaborate daily plans; others do the planning inside their heads. Preservice teachers say they write daily lesson plans only because a supervisor, cooperating teacher, or school administrator requires them to do so. After they graduate, many teachers give up writing lesson plans. However, not many teachers enter a classroom without some kind of plan. Lesson plans are systematic records of a teacher’s thoughts about what will be covered during a lesson”.


(RICHARDS, J. C. & RENANDYA, W.A. (Editors). Methodology in Language
Teaching – An Anthology of Current Practice. 14th Ed. Cambridge: CUP,
1986, p. 30).
Lessons plans may be challenging to work on, but they are such a tool to make English teachers more ________________ and they can __________________ problems and solutions before / when they happen.

Choose the alternative that completes the blanks.
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Q2385590 Inglês
       “Language teachers may ask themselves why should they bother writing plans for every lesson. Some teachers write down elaborate daily plans; others do the planning inside their heads. Preservice teachers say they write daily lesson plans only because a supervisor, cooperating teacher, or school administrator requires them to do so. After they graduate, many teachers give up writing lesson plans. However, not many teachers enter a classroom without some kind of plan. Lesson plans are systematic records of a teacher’s thoughts about what will be covered during a lesson”.


(RICHARDS, J. C. & RENANDYA, W.A. (Editors). Methodology in Language
Teaching – An Anthology of Current Practice. 14th Ed. Cambridge: CUP,
1986, p. 30).
The author states that many teachers do not plan their lessons before entering the classrooms. When it comes to such a matter, it is INCORRECT to affirm that designing a lesson plan 
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Q2385589 Inglês
       “While a focus on grammar as a linguistic resource puts a more positive face on the role of grammar in writing instruction, any discussion of this role should include attention to learners’ writing errors, a significant concern for most L2 writing teachers and their students. For decades, studies and debates on the effectiveness of differing types of error correction and, indeed, of error correction at all, have been a major topic in the L2 writing literature. Central in recent debates include the exchanges between Truscott (1996, 2007), who believes that ESL research does not provide evidence showing that error correction improves writers’ accuracy over time, and Ferris (1999, 2011), who, while acknowledging that research base lacks controlled studies on this topic, nevertheless asserts that studies have indicated short-term improvement. Ferris (2011) has further pointed out that without attention to errors and explicit instruction, adult learners may fail to make progress in correcting patterns of errors in their L2 writing. Indeed, writing teachers in higher education contexts have found out that many of their multilingual students enter colleges and universities unaware of frequent error patterns in their writing”.



(CELCE-MURCIA, M; BRINTON, D.M. & SNOW, M. A. (Editors). Teaching English
as a Second or Foreign Language. 4th Ed. Boston, U.S.: National Geographic
Learning / Heinle Cengage Learning, 2014, p. 240).

Researchers argue that learners who are conscious of their errors in writing are better able to ____________ their writing skills.

Choose the alternative that completes the blank. 
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Q2385588 Inglês
       “While a focus on grammar as a linguistic resource puts a more positive face on the role of grammar in writing instruction, any discussion of this role should include attention to learners’ writing errors, a significant concern for most L2 writing teachers and their students. For decades, studies and debates on the effectiveness of differing types of error correction and, indeed, of error correction at all, have been a major topic in the L2 writing literature. Central in recent debates include the exchanges between Truscott (1996, 2007), who believes that ESL research does not provide evidence showing that error correction improves writers’ accuracy over time, and Ferris (1999, 2011), who, while acknowledging that research base lacks controlled studies on this topic, nevertheless asserts that studies have indicated short-term improvement. Ferris (2011) has further pointed out that without attention to errors and explicit instruction, adult learners may fail to make progress in correcting patterns of errors in their L2 writing. Indeed, writing teachers in higher education contexts have found out that many of their multilingual students enter colleges and universities unaware of frequent error patterns in their writing”.



(CELCE-MURCIA, M; BRINTON, D.M. & SNOW, M. A. (Editors). Teaching English
as a Second or Foreign Language. 4th Ed. Boston, U.S.: National Geographic
Learning / Heinle Cengage Learning, 2014, p. 240).

According to the text, error correction in writing tasks has been considered by specialists as a __________________ technique.

Choose the alternative that completes the blank.
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Q2385587 Inglês
      “The procedure for teaching receptive skills generally starts with a lead-in. This is where we engage students with the topic of the reading and we try to activate their schema (plural schemata) (…). This is the knowledge that allows many British, American, West Indian, Pakistani and Indian people (for example) to make sense of headlines like England in six-wicket collapse (a reference to the game of cricket), whereas many Canadians would instantly understand what it means to be sent to the penalty box and why being sent there might give another team a power play (both terms come ice hockey, Canada’s national sport)”.



(HARMER, J. The Practice of English Language Teaching.
4 th Ed. Essex, England: Pearson, 2007, p. 271).


Specialists argue that comprehensive input for listening tasks is vital for language acquisition. Choose the alternative that shows an effective strategy to address language difficulty. 
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Q2385586 Inglês
      “The procedure for teaching receptive skills generally starts with a lead-in. This is where we engage students with the topic of the reading and we try to activate their schema (plural schemata) (…). This is the knowledge that allows many British, American, West Indian, Pakistani and Indian people (for example) to make sense of headlines like England in six-wicket collapse (a reference to the game of cricket), whereas many Canadians would instantly understand what it means to be sent to the penalty box and why being sent there might give another team a power play (both terms come ice hockey, Canada’s national sport)”.



(HARMER, J. The Practice of English Language Teaching.
4 th Ed. Essex, England: Pearson, 2007, p. 271).


According to Harmer, a “lead-in” task is crucial while tackling with receptive skills. Choose the alternative that DOES NOT present an example of such a task.
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Q2385585 Inglês
      “The procedure for teaching receptive skills generally starts with a lead-in. This is where we engage students with the topic of the reading and we try to activate their schema (plural schemata) (…). This is the knowledge that allows many British, American, West Indian, Pakistani and Indian people (for example) to make sense of headlines like England in six-wicket collapse (a reference to the game of cricket), whereas many Canadians would instantly understand what it means to be sent to the penalty box and why being sent there might give another team a power play (both terms come ice hockey, Canada’s national sport)”.



(HARMER, J. The Practice of English Language Teaching.
4 th Ed. Essex, England: Pearson, 2007, p. 271).


Choose the alternative that presents the “receptive skills” in English Language Teaching.
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Q2385584 Inglês
      “Although the movement began as a largely British innovation, focusing on alternative conceptions of a syllabus, since the mid-1970s the scope of Communicative Language Teaching has expanded. Both American and British proponents (…) see it as an approach (and not a method) that aims to (a) make communicative competence the goal of language teaching and (b) develop procedures for the teaching of the four language skills that acknowledge the interdependence of language and communication. Its comprehensiveness thus makes it different in scope and status from any of the other approaches and methods (…)”.


(RICHARDS, J.C. & RODGERS, T. Approaches and
Methods in Language Teaching: A description and
analysis. Cambridge: CUP, 1986, p. 66).

The desired goal of the Communicative Approach is to 
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Q2385583 Inglês
      “Although the movement began as a largely British innovation, focusing on alternative conceptions of a syllabus, since the mid-1970s the scope of Communicative Language Teaching has expanded. Both American and British proponents (…) see it as an approach (and not a method) that aims to (a) make communicative competence the goal of language teaching and (b) develop procedures for the teaching of the four language skills that acknowledge the interdependence of language and communication. Its comprehensiveness thus makes it different in scope and status from any of the other approaches and methods (…)”.


(RICHARDS, J.C. & RODGERS, T. Approaches and
Methods in Language Teaching: A description and
analysis. Cambridge: CUP, 1986, p. 66).

Learners’ production, according to the Communicative Approach, takes _______________ into account as _______________ is judged not in the abstract, but in context.

Choose the alternative that completes the blank. 
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Q2385582 Inglês
      “Although the movement began as a largely British innovation, focusing on alternative conceptions of a syllabus, since the mid-1970s the scope of Communicative Language Teaching has expanded. Both American and British proponents (…) see it as an approach (and not a method) that aims to (a) make communicative competence the goal of language teaching and (b) develop procedures for the teaching of the four language skills that acknowledge the interdependence of language and communication. Its comprehensiveness thus makes it different in scope and status from any of the other approaches and methods (…)”.


(RICHARDS, J.C. & RODGERS, T. Approaches and
Methods in Language Teaching: A description and
analysis. Cambridge: CUP, 1986, p. 66).

Choose the alternative that DOES NOT present a distinctive feature of the Communicative Approach.
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Q2372584 Inglês
Aeroponics: feeding tomorrow's world? 








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The pronunciation of the {-s} plural suffix of the underlined word in “Fifty percent of all fruit and vegetables going to waste, that is an enormous amount of wastage, and not just in economic terms.” (4th paragraph) is the same that of the underlined word in 
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Q2372582 Inglês
Aeroponics: feeding tomorrow's world? 








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Check the alternative that is fundamental to foster learner autonomy.
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Q2372581 Inglês
Aeroponics: feeding tomorrow's world? 








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The underlined word in “Aeroponics takes things one step further, by removing the water and replacing it with air.” (10th paragraph) can indicate: 
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Q2372580 Inglês
Aeroponics: feeding tomorrow's world? 








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Check the alternative that explains the use of the underlined word in “Granted it can get pretty cold in winter, but with modern agricultural techniques, the Midwest could be self-sufficient for many types of fruit and vegetables, cutting out the massive environmental cost of shipping tons of vegetables half way across a continent.” (8th paragraph) 
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Q2372579 Inglês
Aeroponics: feeding tomorrow's world? 








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According to O´Malley and Chamot (1990, p. 137), “Metacognitive strategies involve thinking about the learning process.” Check the alternative in which there is an example of a metacognitive strategy.
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Q2372578 Inglês
Aeroponics: feeding tomorrow's world? 








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According to Genesee and Upshur (1996, p. 49), “Most teachers assess the effectiveness of instruction informally on a continuous basis.” This type of evaluation is sometimes referred to as
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Q2372577 Inglês
Aeroponics: feeding tomorrow's world? 








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There is an increasing demand for continuing professional development (CPD) in CALL to keep up with the rapid developments of technology” (SON, 2018, p. 16). Considering this demand, teachers´ main concern is to
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Q2372575 Inglês
Aeroponics: feeding tomorrow's world? 








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The underlined word in “Granted it can get pretty cold in winter, but with modern agricultural techniques, the Midwest could be self-sufficient for many types of fruit and vegetables, cutting out the massive environmental cost of shipping tons of vegetables half way across a continent.” (8th paragraph) refers to
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Q2372570 Inglês
Aeroponics: feeding tomorrow's world? 








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The underlined word in “According to a United Nations FAO report published in 2011, almost half of the fruit and vegetables produced in the world go to waste – they never get consumed by the humans for whom they are grown.” (2nd paragraph) refers to
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Respostas
2201: B
2202: A
2203: C
2204: C
2205: B
2206: A
2207: D
2208: B
2209: D
2210: A
2211: C
2212: C
2213: C
2214: D
2215: B
2216: D
2217: B
2218: D
2219: C
2220: C