Questões Militares de Inglês - Vocabulário | Vocabulary

The word "steward" in " (...) to run the business of the Navy as excellent stewards of the public's money and its trust." means:

Match the components of communicative competence on the right to their definitions on the left.

DEFINITIONS

( )The ability to connect sentences and to form a meaningful whole out of a series of utterances.

( )The knowledge of the sociocultural rules of language and of discourse.

( )The knowledge of verbal and nonverbal strategies that may be called into action to compensate for breakdowns in communication. 

COMPONENTS

.1 Strategic competence.

.2 Discourse competence.

.3 Grammatical competence.

.4 Sociolinguistic competence. 

Match the models on the right to the statements on the left. Then, choose the alternative that shows the correct sequence.

STATEMENTS MODEL

( )Languages are learned through imitation.

( )We acquire language rules in a predictable order.

( )Both automatic and controlled processing mechanisms take part in language acquisition. 

MODEL

1. The innatist model.

2. The behaviorist model.

3. The cognitive model.

4. The social constructivist. 

Although computers are useful adjuncts in second language learning there are still things they cannot accomplish. Choose the alternative which describes such things.

“This aspect of validity refers to whether the test looks as if it is measuring what it is supposed to do.”

What does the above definition refer to?