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Q1311643 Inglês
TEXT ONE:

Foreign Language Teaching Methods
                       Dr. Janet Swaffar, Reading Module Instructor

Definitions of Reading

Among the many definitions of reading that have arisen in recent decades, three prominent ideas emerge as most critical for understanding what “learning to read” means:

• Reading is a process undertaken to reduce uncertainty about meanings a text conveys.

• The process results from a negotiation of meaning between the text and its reader.

• The knowledge, expectations, and strategies a reader uses to uncover textual meaning all play decisive roles way the reader negotiates with the text’s meaning.

Reading does not draw on one kind of cognitive skill, nor does it have a straightforward outcome — most texts are understood in different ways by different readers.


Background Knowledge

For foreign language learners to read, they have to be prepared to use various abilities and strategies they already possess from their reading experiences in their native language. They will need the knowledge they possess to help orient themselves in the many dimensions of language implicated in any text. Researchers have established that the act of reading is a non-linear process that is recursive and context-dependent. Readers tend to jump ahead or go back to different segments of the text, depending on what they are reading to find out.

Goals

Asking a learner to “read” a text requires that teachers specify a reading goal. One minimal goal is to ask the learner to find particular grammatical constructions or to identify words that relate to particular features or topics of the reading. But such goals are always only partial. For example, a text also reveals a lot about the readers for which it is written and a lot about subject matter that foreign language learners may or may not know or anticipate.

A Holistic Approach to Reading

The curriculum described here is called a holistic curriculum, following Miller (1996). Holistic education is concerned with connections in human experience – connections between mind and body, between linear thinking and intuitive ways of knowing, between academic disciplines, between the individual and the community A holistic curriculum emphasizes how the parts of a whole relate to each other to form the whole. From this perspective, reading relates to speaking, writing, listening comprehension, and culture.

Pedagogical Stages of Reading

Ideally, each text used in such a curriculum should be pedagogically staged so that learners approach it by moving from pre-reading, through initial reading, and into rereading. This sequence carefully moves the learner from comprehension tasks to production tasks. In addition, these tasks should build upon each other in terms of increasing cognitive difficulty.


Pre-Reading: The initial levels of learning, as described in Bloom’s Taxonomy, involve recognizing and comprehending features of a text. As proposed here, pre-reading tasks involve speaking, reading, and listening.

Initial Reading: Initial reading tasks orient the learner to the text and activate the cognitive resources that are associated with the learner’s own expectations. For example, discussions of genres and stereotypes may help the learner to identify potential reading difficulties and to strategize ways to overcome these challenges. Simple oral and written reproduction tasks should precede more complex production tasks that call for considering creative thinking about several issues at the same time.

Rereading:In rereading, the learner is encouraged to engage in active L2 production such as verbal or written analysis and argumentation. These activities require longer and more complex discourse. At this point, the language learner’s critical thinking needs to interact with their general knowledge. Ideally, cultural context and the individual foreign language learner’s own identity emerge as central to all acts of production.

Available at:<https://coerll.utexas.edu> .
Acessed on: August 8th, 2018. 
According to the text, in order to lead the learner from the reading stage into the task of production,
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Q1311642 Inglês
TEXT ONE:

Foreign Language Teaching Methods
                       Dr. Janet Swaffar, Reading Module Instructor

Definitions of Reading

Among the many definitions of reading that have arisen in recent decades, three prominent ideas emerge as most critical for understanding what “learning to read” means:

• Reading is a process undertaken to reduce uncertainty about meanings a text conveys.

• The process results from a negotiation of meaning between the text and its reader.

• The knowledge, expectations, and strategies a reader uses to uncover textual meaning all play decisive roles way the reader negotiates with the text’s meaning.

Reading does not draw on one kind of cognitive skill, nor does it have a straightforward outcome — most texts are understood in different ways by different readers.


Background Knowledge

For foreign language learners to read, they have to be prepared to use various abilities and strategies they already possess from their reading experiences in their native language. They will need the knowledge they possess to help orient themselves in the many dimensions of language implicated in any text. Researchers have established that the act of reading is a non-linear process that is recursive and context-dependent. Readers tend to jump ahead or go back to different segments of the text, depending on what they are reading to find out.

Goals

Asking a learner to “read” a text requires that teachers specify a reading goal. One minimal goal is to ask the learner to find particular grammatical constructions or to identify words that relate to particular features or topics of the reading. But such goals are always only partial. For example, a text also reveals a lot about the readers for which it is written and a lot about subject matter that foreign language learners may or may not know or anticipate.

A Holistic Approach to Reading

The curriculum described here is called a holistic curriculum, following Miller (1996). Holistic education is concerned with connections in human experience – connections between mind and body, between linear thinking and intuitive ways of knowing, between academic disciplines, between the individual and the community A holistic curriculum emphasizes how the parts of a whole relate to each other to form the whole. From this perspective, reading relates to speaking, writing, listening comprehension, and culture.

Pedagogical Stages of Reading

Ideally, each text used in such a curriculum should be pedagogically staged so that learners approach it by moving from pre-reading, through initial reading, and into rereading. This sequence carefully moves the learner from comprehension tasks to production tasks. In addition, these tasks should build upon each other in terms of increasing cognitive difficulty.


Pre-Reading: The initial levels of learning, as described in Bloom’s Taxonomy, involve recognizing and comprehending features of a text. As proposed here, pre-reading tasks involve speaking, reading, and listening.

Initial Reading: Initial reading tasks orient the learner to the text and activate the cognitive resources that are associated with the learner’s own expectations. For example, discussions of genres and stereotypes may help the learner to identify potential reading difficulties and to strategize ways to overcome these challenges. Simple oral and written reproduction tasks should precede more complex production tasks that call for considering creative thinking about several issues at the same time.

Rereading:In rereading, the learner is encouraged to engage in active L2 production such as verbal or written analysis and argumentation. These activities require longer and more complex discourse. At this point, the language learner’s critical thinking needs to interact with their general knowledge. Ideally, cultural context and the individual foreign language learner’s own identity emerge as central to all acts of production.

Available at:<https://coerll.utexas.edu> .
Acessed on: August 8th, 2018. 
According to the text, a holistic education does not include connections between
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Q1311641 Inglês
TEXT ONE:

Foreign Language Teaching Methods
                       Dr. Janet Swaffar, Reading Module Instructor

Definitions of Reading

Among the many definitions of reading that have arisen in recent decades, three prominent ideas emerge as most critical for understanding what “learning to read” means:

• Reading is a process undertaken to reduce uncertainty about meanings a text conveys.

• The process results from a negotiation of meaning between the text and its reader.

• The knowledge, expectations, and strategies a reader uses to uncover textual meaning all play decisive roles way the reader negotiates with the text’s meaning.

Reading does not draw on one kind of cognitive skill, nor does it have a straightforward outcome — most texts are understood in different ways by different readers.


Background Knowledge

For foreign language learners to read, they have to be prepared to use various abilities and strategies they already possess from their reading experiences in their native language. They will need the knowledge they possess to help orient themselves in the many dimensions of language implicated in any text. Researchers have established that the act of reading is a non-linear process that is recursive and context-dependent. Readers tend to jump ahead or go back to different segments of the text, depending on what they are reading to find out.

Goals

Asking a learner to “read” a text requires that teachers specify a reading goal. One minimal goal is to ask the learner to find particular grammatical constructions or to identify words that relate to particular features or topics of the reading. But such goals are always only partial. For example, a text also reveals a lot about the readers for which it is written and a lot about subject matter that foreign language learners may or may not know or anticipate.

A Holistic Approach to Reading

The curriculum described here is called a holistic curriculum, following Miller (1996). Holistic education is concerned with connections in human experience – connections between mind and body, between linear thinking and intuitive ways of knowing, between academic disciplines, between the individual and the community A holistic curriculum emphasizes how the parts of a whole relate to each other to form the whole. From this perspective, reading relates to speaking, writing, listening comprehension, and culture.

Pedagogical Stages of Reading

Ideally, each text used in such a curriculum should be pedagogically staged so that learners approach it by moving from pre-reading, through initial reading, and into rereading. This sequence carefully moves the learner from comprehension tasks to production tasks. In addition, these tasks should build upon each other in terms of increasing cognitive difficulty.


Pre-Reading: The initial levels of learning, as described in Bloom’s Taxonomy, involve recognizing and comprehending features of a text. As proposed here, pre-reading tasks involve speaking, reading, and listening.

Initial Reading: Initial reading tasks orient the learner to the text and activate the cognitive resources that are associated with the learner’s own expectations. For example, discussions of genres and stereotypes may help the learner to identify potential reading difficulties and to strategize ways to overcome these challenges. Simple oral and written reproduction tasks should precede more complex production tasks that call for considering creative thinking about several issues at the same time.

Rereading:In rereading, the learner is encouraged to engage in active L2 production such as verbal or written analysis and argumentation. These activities require longer and more complex discourse. At this point, the language learner’s critical thinking needs to interact with their general knowledge. Ideally, cultural context and the individual foreign language learner’s own identity emerge as central to all acts of production.

Available at:<https://coerll.utexas.edu> .
Acessed on: August 8th, 2018. 
The text advises that a teacher should
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Q1311640 Inglês
TEXT ONE:

Foreign Language Teaching Methods
                       Dr. Janet Swaffar, Reading Module Instructor

Definitions of Reading

Among the many definitions of reading that have arisen in recent decades, three prominent ideas emerge as most critical for understanding what “learning to read” means:

• Reading is a process undertaken to reduce uncertainty about meanings a text conveys.

• The process results from a negotiation of meaning between the text and its reader.

• The knowledge, expectations, and strategies a reader uses to uncover textual meaning all play decisive roles way the reader negotiates with the text’s meaning.

Reading does not draw on one kind of cognitive skill, nor does it have a straightforward outcome — most texts are understood in different ways by different readers.


Background Knowledge

For foreign language learners to read, they have to be prepared to use various abilities and strategies they already possess from their reading experiences in their native language. They will need the knowledge they possess to help orient themselves in the many dimensions of language implicated in any text. Researchers have established that the act of reading is a non-linear process that is recursive and context-dependent. Readers tend to jump ahead or go back to different segments of the text, depending on what they are reading to find out.

Goals

Asking a learner to “read” a text requires that teachers specify a reading goal. One minimal goal is to ask the learner to find particular grammatical constructions or to identify words that relate to particular features or topics of the reading. But such goals are always only partial. For example, a text also reveals a lot about the readers for which it is written and a lot about subject matter that foreign language learners may or may not know or anticipate.

A Holistic Approach to Reading

The curriculum described here is called a holistic curriculum, following Miller (1996). Holistic education is concerned with connections in human experience – connections between mind and body, between linear thinking and intuitive ways of knowing, between academic disciplines, between the individual and the community A holistic curriculum emphasizes how the parts of a whole relate to each other to form the whole. From this perspective, reading relates to speaking, writing, listening comprehension, and culture.

Pedagogical Stages of Reading

Ideally, each text used in such a curriculum should be pedagogically staged so that learners approach it by moving from pre-reading, through initial reading, and into rereading. This sequence carefully moves the learner from comprehension tasks to production tasks. In addition, these tasks should build upon each other in terms of increasing cognitive difficulty.


Pre-Reading: The initial levels of learning, as described in Bloom’s Taxonomy, involve recognizing and comprehending features of a text. As proposed here, pre-reading tasks involve speaking, reading, and listening.

Initial Reading: Initial reading tasks orient the learner to the text and activate the cognitive resources that are associated with the learner’s own expectations. For example, discussions of genres and stereotypes may help the learner to identify potential reading difficulties and to strategize ways to overcome these challenges. Simple oral and written reproduction tasks should precede more complex production tasks that call for considering creative thinking about several issues at the same time.

Rereading:In rereading, the learner is encouraged to engage in active L2 production such as verbal or written analysis and argumentation. These activities require longer and more complex discourse. At this point, the language learner’s critical thinking needs to interact with their general knowledge. Ideally, cultural context and the individual foreign language learner’s own identity emerge as central to all acts of production.

Available at:<https://coerll.utexas.edu> .
Acessed on: August 8th, 2018. 
The text is very specific when dealing with foreign language learners. It says they
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Q1311639 Inglês
TEXT ONE:

Foreign Language Teaching Methods
                       Dr. Janet Swaffar, Reading Module Instructor

Definitions of Reading

Among the many definitions of reading that have arisen in recent decades, three prominent ideas emerge as most critical for understanding what “learning to read” means:

• Reading is a process undertaken to reduce uncertainty about meanings a text conveys.

• The process results from a negotiation of meaning between the text and its reader.

• The knowledge, expectations, and strategies a reader uses to uncover textual meaning all play decisive roles way the reader negotiates with the text’s meaning.

Reading does not draw on one kind of cognitive skill, nor does it have a straightforward outcome — most texts are understood in different ways by different readers.


Background Knowledge

For foreign language learners to read, they have to be prepared to use various abilities and strategies they already possess from their reading experiences in their native language. They will need the knowledge they possess to help orient themselves in the many dimensions of language implicated in any text. Researchers have established that the act of reading is a non-linear process that is recursive and context-dependent. Readers tend to jump ahead or go back to different segments of the text, depending on what they are reading to find out.

Goals

Asking a learner to “read” a text requires that teachers specify a reading goal. One minimal goal is to ask the learner to find particular grammatical constructions or to identify words that relate to particular features or topics of the reading. But such goals are always only partial. For example, a text also reveals a lot about the readers for which it is written and a lot about subject matter that foreign language learners may or may not know or anticipate.

A Holistic Approach to Reading

The curriculum described here is called a holistic curriculum, following Miller (1996). Holistic education is concerned with connections in human experience – connections between mind and body, between linear thinking and intuitive ways of knowing, between academic disciplines, between the individual and the community A holistic curriculum emphasizes how the parts of a whole relate to each other to form the whole. From this perspective, reading relates to speaking, writing, listening comprehension, and culture.

Pedagogical Stages of Reading

Ideally, each text used in such a curriculum should be pedagogically staged so that learners approach it by moving from pre-reading, through initial reading, and into rereading. This sequence carefully moves the learner from comprehension tasks to production tasks. In addition, these tasks should build upon each other in terms of increasing cognitive difficulty.


Pre-Reading: The initial levels of learning, as described in Bloom’s Taxonomy, involve recognizing and comprehending features of a text. As proposed here, pre-reading tasks involve speaking, reading, and listening.

Initial Reading: Initial reading tasks orient the learner to the text and activate the cognitive resources that are associated with the learner’s own expectations. For example, discussions of genres and stereotypes may help the learner to identify potential reading difficulties and to strategize ways to overcome these challenges. Simple oral and written reproduction tasks should precede more complex production tasks that call for considering creative thinking about several issues at the same time.

Rereading:In rereading, the learner is encouraged to engage in active L2 production such as verbal or written analysis and argumentation. These activities require longer and more complex discourse. At this point, the language learner’s critical thinking needs to interact with their general knowledge. Ideally, cultural context and the individual foreign language learner’s own identity emerge as central to all acts of production.

Available at:<https://coerll.utexas.edu> .
Acessed on: August 8th, 2018. 
According to the text, reading is a process that
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Q1309433 Inglês

Choose the CORRECT definition of the phrasal verb.

Work is so hectic lately! Tonight, I will have get down to it.

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Q1304462 Inglês

Instruction: answer the question based one the following text.


Consider the following sentences about the text:


I. In the last paragraph, there’s a reference to a movie from the 90s. The text only makes sense if you remember and understand its plot.

II. The text refers to a modern problem faced online concerning security and strong passwords.

III. The narrative makes humour with the fact that people find hard to keep track of the passwords and have to re-set them often.


Which ones are correct?

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Q1304461 Inglês

Instruction: answer the question based one the following text.


Consider the expression “iH8You69” (line 43) and the following sentences:


I. It plays with the sound of the word ‘eight’ and ‘hate’.

II. It is a slang commonly used in texting.

III. It is an abbreviation.


Which ones are correct?

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Q1304459 Inglês

Instruction: answer the question based one the following text.


Consider the following sentences:


I. A duck walked waddled out onto the street in front of my car today, and I had to swerve to avoid hitting it.

II. I swerved to avoid a solitary drunk who dreamily crossed the road backwards.

III. Dozens were injured when a passenger bus swerved off and slammed into another bus.


In which sentences the verb ‘swerve’ has the same meaning as used in line 25? 

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Q1304458 Inglês

Instruction: answer the question based one the following text.


Consider the following statements about the expression ‘bald-faced lies’ (l.15):


I. It is an idiomatic expression.

II. It means “showing no shame or embarassment about doing something bad”.

III. It could be translated as ‘mentira descarada’.


Which ones are correct?

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Q1304457 Inglês

Instruction: answer the question based one the following text.


Consider “Error: Password must not be an item you’re looking at on your desk.” (l.17) and the following sentences:

I. The pronoun ‘you’ refers exclusively to the reader.

II. The item being referred to is a desk lamp.

III. The sentence is not coherent, because there’s no reference available in the text.

Which ones are correct?

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Q1304456 Inglês

Instruction: answer the question based one the following text.


Consider the following sentences about the use of ‘must’ along the text (lines 3, 5, 11, e.g):


I. It is used to indicate possibility.

II. It is used for emphasis.

III. It shows that something is necessary, as a requirement.


Which ones are correct? 

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Q1304455 Inglês

Instruction: answer the question based one the following text.


Consider the following sentences about the word ‘Yeesh’ (l.11):

I. It’s an emphatic word.

II. It is informal.

III. A word to describe something that isn't good.

Which ones are correct?

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Q1304454 Inglês

Instruction: answer the question based one the following text.


Consider the following statements:


I. ‘colder’ (line 09) is the superlative form of ‘cold’.

II. In line 11, ‘less sad’ is incorrect, ‘saddest’ should have been used.

III. ‘sadder’ (line 13) has a spelling error as it should have been spelled with only one letter ‘d’.


Which ones are correct?

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Q1304453 Inglês

Instruction: answer the question based one the following text.


Consider the following statements:


I. In line 1, the blank should be filled in by ‘for create’.


BECAUSE


II. The verb ‘to thank’ is always followed by the preposition ‘for’ plus a noun.


Considering the sentences above:

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Q1303777 Inglês
What does the pronoun “them” refers to in the following sentence from the text: …”users are finding new ways to use them to communicate.
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Q1303776 Inglês

Read the following sentences and, according to the text, decide if they are true ( T ) or false ( F ).

( ) All text posted in Instagran is much higher than the ones posted in Facebook.

( ) Internet slang has decreased due to the use of emoji.

( ) The number of available emoji is over 700.

( ) Paring two or more emoji you can form complete sentences.

Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom

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Q1303773 Inglês
According to the article, we can infer that Emoji:
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Q1301944 Inglês

Answer the question based on the following text.

Source: adapted from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/19/oed-appeals-to-teenagers-to-help-itunderstand-slang-dictionary
Considering the meaning of the words ‘bare’, ‘hench’ and ‘dank’ as explicited in the text, fill in the blanks of the following sentences.
 Not all girls like _____ guys - some actually like skinny fellas. • The ____ memes are always the best. • The woman had _____ cats.
The correct order of filling in the blanks is:
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Q1300113 Inglês

A questão refere-se ao texto abaixo.



Fonte: adaptado de <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/08/maya-angelou-hip-hop-albumcaged-bird-songs>.
The sentence “If she was alive, she would be recording other albuns” (l.17)
I. Is used to talk about the possible result of an imagined situation in the present. II. Is an example of the second conditional. III. Implies that the woman is no longer alive.
Which ones are correct?
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Respostas
4441: C
4442: C
4443: B
4444: A
4445: B
4446: B
4447: B
4448: D
4449: E
4450: E
4451: B
4452: C
4453: D
4454: A
4455: E
4456: B
4457: D
4458: B
4459: D
4460: E