Questões de Concurso Comentadas para if-sp

The origins of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) are to be found in the changes in the British language teaching tradition dating from the late 1960s. According to Richards and Rodgers (2001), this approach aims to make communicative competence the goal of language teaching and develop procedures for the teaching of the four language skills that acknowledge the interdependence of language and communication. Considering this, choose the alternative that presents a feature of the Communicative Approach:

Read the excert from HUTCHINSON & WATERS (1987) about the ESP origin:

“As with most developments in human activity, ESP was not a planned and coherent movement, but rather a phenomenon that grew out of a number of converging trends. These trends have operated in a variety of ways around the world, but we can identify three main reasons common to the emerge of all ESP.”

Taking into consideration HUTCHINSON & WATERS assumptions, what are the three main reasons for ESP emergence?

According to BROWN (2007):

“As students work together in pairs and groups, they share information and come to each others’ aid. They are a ‘team’ whose players must work together in order to achieve goals successfully.”

Taking into consideration the above passage it is possible to state that the authors refer to

Regarding the history of language teaching methods, Richards and Rodgers (2001) state that changes in language teaching methods throughout history have reflected recognition of changes in the kind of proficiency learners need, such as a move toward oral proficiency rather than reading comprehension as the goal of language study. Choose the alternative that relates a method name to its characteristics:

According to Anthony’s model, approach is the level at which assumptions and beliefs about language and language learning are specified; method is the level at which theory is put into practice and at which choices are made about the particular skills to be taught, the content to be taught, and the order in which the content will be presented; technique is the level at which classroom procedures are described (RICHARDS and RODGERS, 2001).

Richards and Rodgers (2001) criticism concerning Anthony’s (1963) definition of approach, method and technique which resulted in the authors new model resides in: