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

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.

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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

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Read the following statements and decide if they are true (T) or false (F).

( ) Technologies of information and communication create new genres as Twitter and YouTube. These novelties demand a new way to think teaching English as a second language.

( ) Reading and writing have been affected by new technologies. Images and hyperlinks have become an integrated part of the new genres.

( ) Teaching English as a second language has to follow different concepts of language learning and abstract from the changes society goes through.

( ) Intertextuality is a relevant characteristic of the technological genres.

( ) Multimedia educational proposals contribute to a contextualized teaching and to a better understanding of the world.

Choose the alternative which CORRECTLY shows if the statements are true of false:

Considering classroom management and teacher-student interaction, write true (T) or false (F) to the following statements:

( ) Teacher talk is important to provide students with live target language input. ( ) Code switching is a teaching strategy used when teacher and students do not share the same L1.

( ) Classroom management has to do with decisions related to unexpected (but pertinent) questions, misbehaving students, technical problems with equipment or materials, among others.

( ) The one condition for interaction to happen in the language classroom is having negotiation of meaning between two or more speakers with the same proficiency level.

Choose the option with the correct sequence (top to bottom):