Questões de Concurso
Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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Ano: 2021
Banca:
FCC
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MANAUSPREV
Prova:
FCC - 2021 - MANAUSPREV - Analista Previdenciário - Tecnologia da Informação |
Q1860934
Inglês
Texto associado
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Impact of Point-of-Care Technologies on Healthcare
by Impelsys Admin | Apr 25, 2019
Point-of-Care Technologies is a set of technologies used at the location of patient care helping improve healthcare outcomes.
Blood glucose monitors, urine dipsticks, pregnancy tests, rapid strep tests, rapid HIV tests, hemoglobin level tests are common
examples of PoCT. In the past few years PoCT have advanced and the field is showing strong growth, as evidenced by new clinical or
consumer products research and development directions. The widespread use of this set of technologies is driven by healthcare
emphasis shifting towards greater healthcare awareness, precision treatment, optimization of patient management process, and
chronic disease management − combined with advances in electronic devices and information technology.
Point-of-care technologies add to the effectiveness and efficiency in healthcare delivery. PoC devices provide critical
information to clinicians assisting in the management of patient care. Point-of-care technology enables diagnosis at home, in the
hospital, in an ambulance, or in the field; it effectively delivers high quality of life care at the patient’s bedside, or in the corner of a
consulting room, doing away with procedures that require an entire laboratory and long hours to arrive at a proper diagnosis.
Point-of-Care procedures involve faster and leaner processes as testing is done on bedside and fewer steps are necessary to
produce the result.
These are some of the advantages of PoCT:
− They eliminate the need for processing and aliquoting, transporting the specimen to the laboratory, and communicating
results back to the clinical staff.
− Faster access to test results allows for rapid clinical decision making, enabling more appropriate treatments and
interventions.
− They require smaller sample volumes than those needed for traditional laboratory testing.
− They can also help reduce the frequency of testing errors like inappropriate sampling errors, errors during preparation or
packaging of samples, and patient misidentification.
− The fact that PoCT is often performed by the individual providing care to the patient may help decrease post analytical
errors due to incorrect transmission of test results.
(Adapted from: www.impelsys.com)
De acordo com o texto, os aplicativos PoCT
Ano: 2021
Banca:
FCC
Órgão:
MANAUSPREV
Prova:
FCC - 2021 - MANAUSPREV - Analista Previdenciário - Tecnologia da Informação |
Q1860933
Inglês
Texto associado
Atenção: Para responder à questão, baseie-se no texto abaixo.
Impact of Point-of-Care Technologies on Healthcare
by Impelsys Admin | Apr 25, 2019
Point-of-Care Technologies is a set of technologies used at the location of patient care helping improve healthcare outcomes.
Blood glucose monitors, urine dipsticks, pregnancy tests, rapid strep tests, rapid HIV tests, hemoglobin level tests are common
examples of PoCT. In the past few years PoCT have advanced and the field is showing strong growth, as evidenced by new clinical or
consumer products research and development directions. The widespread use of this set of technologies is driven by healthcare
emphasis shifting towards greater healthcare awareness, precision treatment, optimization of patient management process, and
chronic disease management − combined with advances in electronic devices and information technology.
Point-of-care technologies add to the effectiveness and efficiency in healthcare delivery. PoC devices provide critical
information to clinicians assisting in the management of patient care. Point-of-care technology enables diagnosis at home, in the
hospital, in an ambulance, or in the field; it effectively delivers high quality of life care at the patient’s bedside, or in the corner of a
consulting room, doing away with procedures that require an entire laboratory and long hours to arrive at a proper diagnosis.
Point-of-Care procedures involve faster and leaner processes as testing is done on bedside and fewer steps are necessary to
produce the result.
These are some of the advantages of PoCT:
− They eliminate the need for processing and aliquoting, transporting the specimen to the laboratory, and communicating
results back to the clinical staff.
− Faster access to test results allows for rapid clinical decision making, enabling more appropriate treatments and
interventions.
− They require smaller sample volumes than those needed for traditional laboratory testing.
− They can also help reduce the frequency of testing errors like inappropriate sampling errors, errors during preparation or
packaging of samples, and patient misidentification.
− The fact that PoCT is often performed by the individual providing care to the patient may help decrease post analytical
errors due to incorrect transmission of test results.
(Adapted from: www.impelsys.com)
Segundo o texto, os aplicativos PoCT
Ano: 2021
Banca:
FCC
Órgão:
MANAUSPREV
Prova:
FCC - 2021 - MANAUSPREV - Analista Previdenciário - Tecnologia da Informação |
Q1860932
Inglês
Texto associado
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Mobile Devices and Apps for Health Care Professionals: Uses and Benefits
C. Lee Ventola
The use of mobile devices by health care professionals (HCPs) has transformed many aspects of clinical practice. Mobile
devices have become commonplace in health care settings, leading to rapid growth in the development of medical software
applications (apps) for these platforms. Numerous apps are now available to assist HCPs with many important tasks, such as:
information and time management; health record maintenance and access; communications and consulting; reference and information
gathering; patient management and monitoring; clinical decision-making; and medical education and training.
Mobile devices and apps provide many benefits for health care professionals (HCPs), perhaps most significantly increased
access to point-of-care tools, which has been shown to support better clinical decision-making and improved patient outcomes.
However, some HCPs remain reluctant to adopt their use. Despite the benefits they offer, better standards and validation practices
regarding mobile medical apps need to be established to ensure the proper use and integration of these increasingly sophisticated
tools into medical practice. These measures will raise the barrier for entry into the medical app market, increasing the quality and
safety of the apps currently available for use by HCPs.
(Adapted from: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Segundo o texto,
Ano: 2021
Banca:
FUNDATEC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Vacaria - RS
Prova:
FUNDATEC - 2021 - Prefeitura de Vacaria - RS - Professor de Ensino Fundamental - Anos Finais - Língua Inglesa |
Q1858195
Inglês
Texto associado
Instruction: answer based on the following text.
(Available in: https://www.marthastewart.com/syndication/new-study-dogs-understand-commands-withouttraining – text adapted specially for this test).
In which sentence is the phrasal verb “warm up” used with the same meaning as in
line 27?
Ano: 2021
Banca:
FUNDATEC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Vacaria - RS
Prova:
FUNDATEC - 2021 - Prefeitura de Vacaria - RS - Professor de Ensino Fundamental - Anos Finais - Língua Inglesa |
Q1858194
Inglês
Texto associado
Instruction: answer based on the following text.
(Available in: https://www.marthastewart.com/syndication/new-study-dogs-understand-commands-withouttraining – text adapted specially for this test).
The pronouns and possessive adjectives “which” (l. 04), “them” (l. 09), “They” (l. 09),
and “its” (l. 10) are referring to:
Ano: 2021
Banca:
FUNDATEC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Vacaria - RS
Prova:
FUNDATEC - 2021 - Prefeitura de Vacaria - RS - Professor de Ensino Fundamental - Anos Finais - Língua Inglesa |
Q1858191
Inglês
Texto associado
Instruction: answer based on the following text.
(Available in: https://www.marthastewart.com/syndication/new-study-dogs-understand-commands-withouttraining – text adapted specially for this test).
Consider the following statements about the word “senior” (l. 01):
I. It can be an adjective.
II. It can be a noun.
III. It could be replaced by “old” in the text.
Which are correct?
I. It can be an adjective.
II. It can be a noun.
III. It could be replaced by “old” in the text.
Which are correct?
Ano: 2021
Banca:
FUNDATEC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Vacaria - RS
Prova:
FUNDATEC - 2021 - Prefeitura de Vacaria - RS - Professor de Ensino Fundamental - Anos Finais - Língua Inglesa |
Q1858190
Inglês
Texto associado
Instruction: answer based on the following text.
(Available in: https://www.marthastewart.com/syndication/new-study-dogs-understand-commands-withouttraining – text adapted specially for this test).
Which question is NOT answered by the text?
Ano: 2021
Banca:
FUNDATEC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Vacaria - RS
Prova:
FUNDATEC - 2021 - Prefeitura de Vacaria - RS - Professor de Ensino Fundamental - Anos Finais - Língua Inglesa |
Q1858189
Inglês
Texto associado
Instruction: answer based on the following text.
(Available in: https://www.marthastewart.com/syndication/new-study-dogs-understand-commands-withouttraining – text adapted specially for this test).
According to the text, it is INCORRECT to say that:
Ano: 2021
Banca:
FUNDATEC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Vacaria - RS
Prova:
FUNDATEC - 2021 - Prefeitura de Vacaria - RS - Professor de Ensino Fundamental - Anos Finais - Língua Inglesa |
Q1858188
Inglês
Texto associado
Instruction: answer based on the following text.
(Available in: https://www.marthastewart.com/syndication/new-study-dogs-understand-commands-withouttraining – text adapted specially for this test).
According to the text, which question guided the scientific studies conducted by the
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research?
Ano: 2021
Banca:
INSTITUTO AOCP
Órgão:
FUNPRESP-JUD
Prova:
INSTITUTO AOCP - 2021 - FUNPRESP-JUD - Analista de Tecnologia da Informação - Desenvolvimento de Sistemas |
Q1855673
Inglês
Texto associado
Taking into account the following text, judge
the subsequent item.
Perspectives on modern data analytics
By Eric Knorr - Editor in Chief, CIO | APR 12,
2021 3:00 AM PDT
Some things don't change, even during a
pandemic. Consistent with previous years, in
CIO’s 2021 State of the CIO survey, a plurality of
the 1,062 IT leaders surveyed chose
“data/business analytics” as the No.1 tech
initiative expected to drive IT investment.
Unfortunately, analytics initiatives seldom do
nearly as well when it comes to stakeholder
satisfaction.
Last year, CIO contributor Mary K. Pratt offered
an excellent analysis of why data analytics
initiatives still fail, including poor-quality or siloed
data, vague rather than targeted business
objectives, and clunky one-size-fits-all feature
sets. But a number of fresh approaches and
technologies are making these pratfalls less
likely.
(...)
New technology invariably incurs new risks. No
advancement has had more momentous impact
on analytics than machine learning – from
automating data prep to detecting meaningful
patterns in data – but it also adds an unforeseen
hazard. As CSO Senior Writer Lucian Constantin
explains in "How data poisoning attacks corrupt
machine learning models," deliberately skewed
data injected by malicious hackers can tilt models toward some nefarious goal. The result could be,
say, manipulated product recommendations, or
even the ability for hackers to infer confidential
underlying data.
(...)
In the end, the secret to successful analytics is
not in choosing and implementing the perfect
technology, but in cultivating a broad
understanding that pervasive analytics yields
better decisions and superior outcomes. Usually,
you can iron out technology kinks or
requirements misunderstandings. But if you can't
change the mindset, few will use the beautiful
analytics machine you just built.
Disponível em: https://www.cio.com/article/3614692/5-perspectiveson-modern-data-analytics.html.
Acesso em: 15 out. 2021.
The advancements on machine learning
have always been preventing hackers from
inferring confidential data or manipulating
product recommendations when it comes
to business analytics.
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEDUC-AL
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEDUC-AL - Professor - Inglês |
Q1854099
Inglês
Texto associado
General observation suggests that it is those who start to
learn English after their school years who are most likely to have
serious difficulties in acquiring intelligible pronunciation, with
the degree of difficulty increasing markedly with age. This
difficulty has nothing to do with intelligence or level of
education, or even with knowledge of English grammar and
vocabulary.
Of course, there is no simple answer to why pronunciation
is so difficult to learn — indeed, there is a whole range of
theoretical perspectives on the question. What is generally
accepted among psycholinguists and phonologists who
specialized in this area is that the difficulty in learning to
pronounce a foreign language is cognitive rather than physical,
and that it has something to do with the way “raw sound” is
categorized or conceptualized in using speech.
Many learners of English as a second language have major
difficulties with English pronunciation even after years of
learning the language. This often results in them facing
difficulties in areas such as finding employment. Up to a certain
proficiency standard, the fault which most severely impairs the
communication process in EFL/ESL learners is pronunciation,
not vocabulary or grammar.
A. Gilakjani and M. Ahmadi. Why is Pronunciation So Difficult to Learn? In: English Language Teaching, Vol. 4, No. 3. Richmond Hill: Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2011 (adapted).
Based on the text above, judge the following item.
Pronunciation plays a greater role in limiting communication
for EFL/ESL speakers than other aspects of language.
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEDUC-AL
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEDUC-AL - Professor - Inglês |
Q1854097
Inglês
Texto associado
General observation suggests that it is those who start to
learn English after their school years who are most likely to have
serious difficulties in acquiring intelligible pronunciation, with
the degree of difficulty increasing markedly with age. This
difficulty has nothing to do with intelligence or level of
education, or even with knowledge of English grammar and
vocabulary.
Of course, there is no simple answer to why pronunciation
is so difficult to learn — indeed, there is a whole range of
theoretical perspectives on the question. What is generally
accepted among psycholinguists and phonologists who
specialized in this area is that the difficulty in learning to
pronounce a foreign language is cognitive rather than physical,
and that it has something to do with the way “raw sound” is
categorized or conceptualized in using speech.
Many learners of English as a second language have major
difficulties with English pronunciation even after years of
learning the language. This often results in them facing
difficulties in areas such as finding employment. Up to a certain
proficiency standard, the fault which most severely impairs the
communication process in EFL/ESL learners is pronunciation,
not vocabulary or grammar.
A. Gilakjani and M. Ahmadi. Why is Pronunciation So Difficult to Learn? In: English Language Teaching, Vol. 4, No. 3. Richmond Hill: Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2011 (adapted).
Based on the text above, judge the following item.
According to the text, the difficulty in acquiring intelligible
pronunciation in English grows slightly with time.
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEDUC-AL
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEDUC-AL - Professor - Inglês |
Q1854093
Inglês
Texto associado
The history of language study illustrates widely divergent
attitudes concerning the relationship between writing and speech.
Written language was the medium of literature, and, thus, a
source of standards of linguistic excellence. It was felt to provide
language with permanence and authority. The rules of grammar
were, accordingly, illustrated exclusively from written texts.
The everyday spoken language, by contrast, was ignored
or condemned as an object unworthy of study, demonstrating
only lack of care and organization. It was said to have no rules,
and speakers were left under the illusion that, in order to “speak
properly”, it was necessary to follow the “correct” norms, as laid
down in the recognized grammar books and manuals of written
style.
There was sporadic criticism of this viewpoint throughout
the 19th century, but it was not until the 20th century that an
alternative approach became widespread. This approach pointed
out that speech is many thousands of years older than writing;
that it develops naturally in children (whereas writing has to be
artificially taught); and that writing systems are derivative —
mostly based on sounds of speech.
D. Crystal. How Language Works. London: Penguin Books, 2006 (adapted).
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
According to the text, it used to be believed that the
everyday spoken language is too anarchic to be used as the
basis for grammar.
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEDUC-AL
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEDUC-AL - Professor - Inglês |
Q1854092
Inglês
Texto associado
The history of language study illustrates widely divergent
attitudes concerning the relationship between writing and speech.
Written language was the medium of literature, and, thus, a
source of standards of linguistic excellence. It was felt to provide
language with permanence and authority. The rules of grammar
were, accordingly, illustrated exclusively from written texts.
The everyday spoken language, by contrast, was ignored
or condemned as an object unworthy of study, demonstrating
only lack of care and organization. It was said to have no rules,
and speakers were left under the illusion that, in order to “speak
properly”, it was necessary to follow the “correct” norms, as laid
down in the recognized grammar books and manuals of written
style.
There was sporadic criticism of this viewpoint throughout
the 19th century, but it was not until the 20th century that an
alternative approach became widespread. This approach pointed
out that speech is many thousands of years older than writing;
that it develops naturally in children (whereas writing has to be
artificially taught); and that writing systems are derivative —
mostly based on sounds of speech.
D. Crystal. How Language Works. London: Penguin Books, 2006 (adapted).
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
The expression “this viewpoint” (third paragraph) refers to
the idea that spoken language should follow the same rules
as written language to be correct.
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEDUC-AL
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEDUC-AL - Professor - Inglês |
Q1854091
Inglês
Texto associado
The history of language study illustrates widely divergent
attitudes concerning the relationship between writing and speech.
Written language was the medium of literature, and, thus, a
source of standards of linguistic excellence. It was felt to provide
language with permanence and authority. The rules of grammar
were, accordingly, illustrated exclusively from written texts.
The everyday spoken language, by contrast, was ignored
or condemned as an object unworthy of study, demonstrating
only lack of care and organization. It was said to have no rules,
and speakers were left under the illusion that, in order to “speak
properly”, it was necessary to follow the “correct” norms, as laid
down in the recognized grammar books and manuals of written
style.
There was sporadic criticism of this viewpoint throughout
the 19th century, but it was not until the 20th century that an
alternative approach became widespread. This approach pointed
out that speech is many thousands of years older than writing;
that it develops naturally in children (whereas writing has to be
artificially taught); and that writing systems are derivative —
mostly based on sounds of speech.
D. Crystal. How Language Works. London: Penguin Books, 2006 (adapted).
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
In the first paragraph, the word “It” (third sentence) refers to
“a source of standards” (second sentence).
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEDUC-AL
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEDUC-AL - Professor - Inglês |
Q1854089
Inglês
Texto associado
Whatever training is given there should always be a
permanent concern about the naturalness and spontaneity of
everyday speech rather than an artificial sound production for the
sake of preserving a “correct” pronunciation.
This is, in fact, a crucial issue, since if too much care is
demanded from the student, this may turn out to be an
undesirable blockage to another more important factor, namely,
fluency. Perhaps, and even worse, if over-careful pronunciation
habits are developed, this will certainly cause difficulties for the
oral comprehension, as the students will expect to hear sounds,
words and utterances the way they personally produce them.
G.A. Chauvet. Improve Your Pronunciation. Brasília:
Editora Universidade de Brasília, 2005 (adapted).
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
According to the text, excessive demands with regard to
pronunciation can inhibit fluency.
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEDUC-AL
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEDUC-AL - Professor - Inglês |
Q1854083
Inglês
Texto associado
Teachers sometimes assume that more outgoing learners
will be able to learn pronunciation better than shyer students, and
there may be some truth to this. Confident students might speak
more and be more willing to try new sounds, and this extra
practice could help them improve their pronunciation. However,
this improvement is certainly not guaranteed. Some outgoing
students may be producing a lot of language, but they may also
be jumping ahead without paying attention to the accuracy of
their pronunciation. If listeners are impressed by their fluency
and accept their imperfect pronunciation, they have no way to
know that they need to improve.
Some more introverted students might actually be
thinking carefully about sounds and practicing “within
themselves,” even if they don’t speak much in class. Don’t
underestimate the quiet students. Appreciate the strengths and
possibilities of all your students and encourage everyone. All
students can learn and improve in their own way.
Another aspect of personality that can affect pronunciation
is the degree to which a person is willing or able to change the
way they sound. Most of us have been speaking and listening to
language in the same, familiar way since we learned to talk. Our
voice and our pronunciation are a central part of the way we see
ourselves. It can be uncomfortable, and possibly even
frightening, to try out unfamiliar sounds and melodies of
language. For some people this process seems like a small bump
on the road, but for others, it’s a serious roadblock.
M.T. Yoshida. Beyond Repeat After Me: Teaching Pronunciation to
English Learners. Alexandria: TESOL Press, 2016 (adapted).
Based on the text above, judge the following item.
According to the text, speaking more, and thus practicing
more, does not necessarily lead to improvement.
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEDUC-AL
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEDUC-AL - Professor - Inglês |
Q1854082
Inglês
Texto associado
Teachers sometimes assume that more outgoing learners
will be able to learn pronunciation better than shyer students, and
there may be some truth to this. Confident students might speak
more and be more willing to try new sounds, and this extra
practice could help them improve their pronunciation. However,
this improvement is certainly not guaranteed. Some outgoing
students may be producing a lot of language, but they may also
be jumping ahead without paying attention to the accuracy of
their pronunciation. If listeners are impressed by their fluency
and accept their imperfect pronunciation, they have no way to
know that they need to improve.
Some more introverted students might actually be
thinking carefully about sounds and practicing “within
themselves,” even if they don’t speak much in class. Don’t
underestimate the quiet students. Appreciate the strengths and
possibilities of all your students and encourage everyone. All
students can learn and improve in their own way.
Another aspect of personality that can affect pronunciation
is the degree to which a person is willing or able to change the
way they sound. Most of us have been speaking and listening to
language in the same, familiar way since we learned to talk. Our
voice and our pronunciation are a central part of the way we see
ourselves. It can be uncomfortable, and possibly even
frightening, to try out unfamiliar sounds and melodies of
language. For some people this process seems like a small bump
on the road, but for others, it’s a serious roadblock.
M.T. Yoshida. Beyond Repeat After Me: Teaching Pronunciation to
English Learners. Alexandria: TESOL Press, 2016 (adapted).
Based on the text above, judge the following item.
It can be inferred from the text that our identity is partly tied
to the way we speak.
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEDUC-AL
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEDUC-AL - Professor - Inglês |
Q1854079
Inglês
Texto associado
The role of pronunciation in non-native language teaching
has been in a state of constant change. In the earlier approaches,
foreign language pronunciation was either the result of exposure
to the target language or of approaches which used complex sets
of drills and repetitions. As suggested, to a large extent, the
importance of pronunciation has always been determined by
ideology and intuition rather than by research. Teachers have
intuitively decided which features have the greatest effect on
clarity and which are learnable in a classroom setting. Saito
claims that while the morphological and syntactical levels of
languages are taught in contextualized meaningful exercises,
pronunciation practice is decontextualized due to the use of drills
and repetition.
Pronunciation is one of the aspects of language both
native and non-native teachers of English are not keen on
teaching, and a lack of adequate teacher training results in an
intuitive use of available materials and techniques. Setting
pedagogical goals must be based on knowledge of pronunciation
issues. Unqualified teachers may have misconceptions about
phonological phenomena, cannot evaluate or use teaching
materials accurately, and do not set realistic goals when teaching
pronunciation. Furthermore, even teaching materials do not
reflect the conclusions of current research, and they can be
perceived as boring; however, Baker argues that teachers who
complete a pronunciation course have, and apply, a wider range
of pronunciation activities in their classrooms.
H. Vančová. Current Issues in Pronunciation Teaching to Non-Native Learners of English.
In: Journal of Language and Cultural Education, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2019 (adapted).
Based on the text above, judge the following item.
According to the first paragraph, when it comes to
pronunciation, foreign language teachers have relied more on
gut feelings than on scientific data.
Ano: 2021
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
SEDUC-AL
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEDUC-AL - Professor - Inglês |
Q1854078
Inglês
Texto associado
The role of pronunciation in non-native language teaching
has been in a state of constant change. In the earlier approaches,
foreign language pronunciation was either the result of exposure
to the target language or of approaches which used complex sets
of drills and repetitions. As suggested, to a large extent, the
importance of pronunciation has always been determined by
ideology and intuition rather than by research. Teachers have
intuitively decided which features have the greatest effect on
clarity and which are learnable in a classroom setting. Saito
claims that while the morphological and syntactical levels of
languages are taught in contextualized meaningful exercises,
pronunciation practice is decontextualized due to the use of drills
and repetition.
Pronunciation is one of the aspects of language both
native and non-native teachers of English are not keen on
teaching, and a lack of adequate teacher training results in an
intuitive use of available materials and techniques. Setting
pedagogical goals must be based on knowledge of pronunciation
issues. Unqualified teachers may have misconceptions about
phonological phenomena, cannot evaluate or use teaching
materials accurately, and do not set realistic goals when teaching
pronunciation. Furthermore, even teaching materials do not
reflect the conclusions of current research, and they can be
perceived as boring; however, Baker argues that teachers who
complete a pronunciation course have, and apply, a wider range
of pronunciation activities in their classrooms.
H. Vančová. Current Issues in Pronunciation Teaching to Non-Native Learners of English.
In: Journal of Language and Cultural Education, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2019 (adapted).
Based on the text above, judge the following item.
According to the text, foreign language teachers are unaware
of the current research on pronunciation.
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