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Sobre ensino da língua estrangeira inglesa em inglês
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The paragraph above refers to one of the four language skills that should be practiced in the language classroom. This skill is:
23rd June, 2018
Algeria has turned off its Internet all over the country to stop students cheating in high school exams. Algeria's government said it wanted to do something to stop students secretly going online during nationwide school tests. All Internet service was stopped for an hour after the start of each of the exams. The government will shut the Internet down during the whole exam season, between June 20 and June 25. In addition, all electronic devices with Internet access have been banned from the country's 2,000 exam centers. Even teachers cannot take phones into the exam halls. There were many problems in 2016 when test questions were leaked online both before and during exams.
Algeria's Education Minister Nouria Benghabrit told the Algerian newspaper Annahar that Facebook would also be blocked across the country for the six days the exams were taking place. She said she did not like doing this but she could not do anything and give opportunities to students to cheat in tests. As an added security measure, metal detectors will be placed in all exam halls, and security cameras and mobile-phone blockers have been set up at the printing companies where the exams are printed. Many students thought the government was doing the right thing. Rania Salim, 16, said it wasn't fair that students who didn't study could get help in exams by using their mobile phone to cheat.
Taken from: https://breakingnewsenglish.com
Read the following text about the importance of reading.
Practise your English reading skills at your level. Reading and understanding different types of texts is a very important skill for all learners of English. Reading as much as you can in English will help you to improve your level of understanding of the language and it will also help to improve your __________. Choose your level, from beginner to advanced, and start learning today by reading articles and stories. Whether you need to __________ your English reading skills for work, for studying or to be able to communicate effectively with friends, you'll find practical reading lessons and activities to help you. Choose the option which presents the words that best complete the paragraphs above, respectively.
Leia as afirmativas a seguir:
I. Na frase “i took a swim” ocorre um verbo que pode ser melhor traduzido como correr.
II. O aprendizado de uma língua estrangeira deve possibilitar que o aluno, ao se envolver nos processos de construir significados nessa língua, se constitua em um ser discursivo no uso de uma língua estrangeira.
Marque a alternativa CORRETA:
Leia as afirmativas a seguir:
I. Ao ensinar uma língua estrangeira, é essencial uma compreensão teórica do que é a linguagem, tanto do ponto de vista dos conhecimentos necessários para usá-la quanto em relação ao uso que fazem desses conhecimentos para construir significados no mundo social.
II. Na frase “he eats him out of house and home”, o verbo 'eats' pode ser melhor traduzido como reformar.
Marque a alternativa CORRETA:
INSTRUCTIONS – Read the following text carefully and then choose the correct alternatives that answer the questions.
SOUTHERN HUMPBACK WHALE
INTRODUCTION
During the Australian winter, these ocean leviathans journey 3,100 miles north from their Antarctic feeding grounds to the warm tropical waters near Australia´s Whitsunday Islands. At the southern edge of the Great Barrier Reef, the 40-ton female humpbacks give birth to calves measuring 14 feet long and weighing over one ton. The Whitsundays´ sheltered bays keep the calves warm and safe from predators. During the next few months, the whales rest, sing, play and mate. The calves nurse, but the one thing the adult whales don´t do while in the tropical seas is eat. By winter´s end, adults are famished, and they head south.
This life cycle is repeated throughout the Southern Hemisphere: one group migrates along the western coast of Australia, others to southern Africa and South America.
SIGHT UNSEEN
Underneath the blue Australian ocean, film crews captured the elegant rituals of southern humpbacks as they swim, sing, nurse, and play. A mother humpback whale supported her young calf from underneath, so it could breathe easier near the surface. Calves drink 130 gallons of milk a day! While baby grows fat, the mother starves for five months, her blubber stores depleting daily. Unlike the cold Antarctic waters, the seas here don´t grow rich with krill that humpbacks filer through their baleen plates. But she provides her calf with rich milk that contains some of the highest fat content of any mammal´s milk – 45 percent.
UNIQUE BEHAVIOR
Humpback males sing a unique melody, full of high-pitched chirps and whistles interspersed with deeper gurgles and moans. Each male repeats his song for hours, which likely plays a role in courtship. The song may change over time, with males singing a modified melody in consecutive years.
Whale-watching tours take advantage of the humpback´s playful and curious nature. They often approach boats and put on quite a show. As whales journey south along the eastern coast of Australia, many stop in sheltered Platypus Bay around Fraser Island – a World Heritage Site – where they display the charismatic behaviors loved by whale-watchers. The crystal blue waters give a perfect window to watch the whales twist, roll and swim upside down, emerging to breathe, slap their tails or pectoral fins on the water´s surface. Breaching whales jump nearly all the way out of the water. “Spyhopping” means their head emerges, and they peer at the surroundings with their large eyes.
STATUS/CONSERVATION
Commercial hunting in the 19th and 20th centuries decimated most whale species. Because they migrate close to shore and swim slowly, humpbacks became a popular whalers´ target, and were hunted down to a few hundred animals in the Southern Hemisphere. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) implemented a moratorium on harvesting all species starting in 1986, and in 1994, declared Antarctica´s Southern Ocean a whale sanctuary. Now numbering over 10,000 in the Southern Hemisphere, humpbacks have shown incredible resilience, but their numbers still remain a fraction of their historic abundance. Recovery of regional populations varies, and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) lists the humpback as vulnerable.
Humpbacks also have two Northern Hemisphere populations that number around 11,500 in the North Atlantic and 6,000 in the North Pacific. Northern humpbacks are genetically differentiated from the Southern Hemisphere population, and have dark bellies, while the southern humpbacks have all-white bellies. They don´t interbreed, because while the southern populations are mating and calving in the warm tropical seas, northern populations are near the polar Arctic.
OUTLOOK
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) allows hunting by indigenous cultures but bans hunting of humpback whales. Japan has long engaged in IWC-sanctioned “scientific whaling” of minke and other whales, and plans to start hunting humpbacks in 2007. “We are all concerned about Japan´s plans to add this species to the scientific whaling quota”, says Dr. Scott Baker, a renowned cetacean conservation biologist. Iceland also just started commercial whaling in 2006.
Some Asian countries allow the sale of whale meat from incidental bycatch, and a whale´s value of $100,000 provides incentive for illegal harvest. Baker and colleagues used DNA to show that the whale meat being sold in South Korean shops did not match that reported to the IWC. Illegal harvest and sale of whale meat is occurring.
Australia and New Zealand have petitioned the IWC to create a South Pacific Sanctuary adjoining the Southern Ocean Sanctuary where whaling would be illegal. Thus far, it has not been approved by IWC.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/planet-earth/animals/animals.html
At the southern edge of the Great Barrier Reef, adult humpbacks whales do all this, EXCEPT:
“All PCN, - National Curriculum Parameters - themes are supposed to be taught as cross-curricular themes, although ‘CPCCT’, - cultural plurality as a cross-curricular theme, - is the theme that receives the most emphasis within the FL (foreign language) curriculum where it is given a three-page text. The other themes are not discussed as specifically as CPCCT. The reason given for the emphasis is: ‘The cross-curricular theme of Cultural Plurality deserves special treatment due to the fact that FL teaching gives great support to this question.’ (Brazil, 1998a: 48, my translation) The document also states that ‘This theme can be focused on with the aim of demystifying the homogenous understanding of specific cultures that involve typical generalizations in FL classrooms, for instance, that the English or the French are ‘this or that way’. (Brazil, 1998a: 48, my translation)” (Adapted from Cultural Plurality in the FL National Curriculum Parameters: a study of race/ethnicity by Aparecida de Jesus Ferreira) In this context, we can reflect that:
What's new in English language teaching?
This is an article about new trends in English language teaching (ELT) resources, but none of the trends that follow are, strictly speaking, new.
Take, for example, the idea of spaced repetition, which is a buzzword at the moment. Back in 1885 (I told you it wasn’t a new idea), Hermann Ebbinghaus carried out an experiment designed to measure how quickly we forget. He discovered that, unless new information is reinforced, we quickly forget what we have learned. In the 1930s, other researchers followed this up by looking at how often we need to reinforce new information, and found that spacing out repetition – revising the information every two days, then every four, then every eight, and so on – was most effective.
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Another way in which digitalisation is affecting ELT resources is in the way it's connecting learners with the outside world. Students nowadays have access to an incredible amount of English-language material online. But while this is clearly beneficial, it can also be a bit overwhelming. Students don’t always know where to go for the most appropriate material. For teachers, the amount of time needed to find, select and prepare materials can be off-putting.
Disponível em: <https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/whats-new-english-languageteaching>. Acesso em: 19 fev. 2017.
De acordo com o trecho, a autora afirma que
I have ___ fascinated with the brain ever since, and I have always hoped I would ___ a way to ___ the hidden treasure of a fully-activated mind.
“Tippett admits that he hasn't actually ___ that yet. In fact, the machine __ been operational for only about 10 hours.”
I) Conceber o letramento em língua inglesa a partir da interação com uma língua estrangeira demanda experimentar essa língua por meio de práticas sociais que integrem as habilidades (leitura, escrita, compreensão e produção oral) de forma que o aluno se constitua como enunciador na nova língua sem perder sua inscrição discursiva na língua materna. Ao nos situarmos nesse âmbito teórico, entendemos o processo de ensino-aprendizagem como uma troca linguística em que o indivíduo social fala de si para se constituir numa língua outra, expressando percepções, sua visão de mundo e inscrições ideológicas, balizadas pelo conflito/confronto de culturas e práticas discursivas.
II) De acordo com a teoria bakhtiniana, a língua não se transmite, ela dura e perdura sob a forma de um processo evolutivo contínuo. Os indivíduos não recebem a língua pronta para ser usada, eles adentram na corrente da comunicação verbal, ou melhor, apenas quando imergem nessa corrente é que sua consciência desperta e começa a atuar. É apenas no processo de aquisição de uma língua estrangeira que a consciência já constituída (devido à língua materna) se confronta com uma língua pronta, que só lhe resta assimilar.
III) Uma interação verbal se processa enquanto um ato de linguagem em que os indivíduos sociais entrecruzam seus mundos possíveis, balizados pela ótica de um processo de ensino-aprendizagem. Nessa ótica se incluem referências linguísticas de diferentes níveis de interlíngua, referências sociais de diferentes ethé de linguagem, referências patêmicas de diferentes hierarquias culturais, referências filosóficas de diferentes campos e visões de conhecimentos, entre outros fatores. Isso nos remete a uma compreensão desse ato de linguagem não como atos responsáveis e sim voluntários.
A resposta CORRETA é:
Zeichner and Liston (1996) differentiate between five different levels at which reflection can take place during teaching. Choose the right sequence of those levels:
Indique abaixo a resposta CORRETA que apresenta as quatro habilidades a serem desenvolvidas para a aquisição da língua inglesa, de maneira autônoma e competente para se comunicar adequadamente nessa língua.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta corretamente as quatro habilidades.
According to Kumaravadivelu (2001), “The postmethod learner is an autonomous learner. The literature on learner autonomy has so far provided two interrelated aspects of autonomy: academic autonomy and social autonomy”. Choose the alternative that corresponds to the author’s idea of autonomy:
In his attempt to find a definition for a postmethod pedagogy, Kumaravadivelu (2001) states that an option is to look at the term and consider it a “pedagogy of particularity, practicality, and possibility”. Which of the alternatives below represents the author’s idea of practicality?