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Q4443043
Inglês Verbos | Verbs , Passado simples | Simple past , Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound
Ano: 2026 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: SEDUC-AL Prova: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2026 - SEDUC-AL - Professor - Inglês |
Q4443043 Inglês
    When a person attempts to express their thoughts in writing, they use a series of cognitive functions like working memory to access words and ideas they want to convey, phonological awareness of concepts such as syntax and more. And that is in their native language. A new study from the University of Kansas is among the first of its kind to examine cognitive functions and their role in teaching English learners to write in their second language. 

    The study performed a battery of bilingual cognitive tests with nearly 500 elementary-age English learners and found the relationships between English writing performance and cognitive skills became stronger as grades increased. However, the relationships between English writing and Spanish cognitive and reading determinants, for example, were mixed, indicating working memory capacity was especially important in the population’s performance in learning to write in their second language. 

    The findings not only shed light on how students learn to write, they could help lead to development of interventions to help English learners improve their writing abilities. Neuroscience reveals that working memory is a complex cognitive function involving multiple regions. The prefrontal cortex is central to working memory, handling the retention and manipulation of short-term information. 

Internet:<https://sciencedaily.com>(adapted).



Based on the preceding text, evaluate the following item.
 
In the second paragraph of the text, the verb forms "performed" and "increased" are regular past-tense forms, whereas "found" and "became" are irregular past-tense forms.
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Q4443004
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: SEDUC-AL Prova: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2026 - SEDUC-AL - Professor - Inglês |
Q4443004 Inglês
    Never before have we had such easy access to languages we do not speak. AI translation tools can convert German, French or Japanese text into fluent English or Chinese in a matter of seconds. For many, these tools are a vital part of everyday life. Unfortunately, I have come to realise that the more these tools advance, the less we feel the need to learn foreign languages. 

    There is a misconception behind this. These tools treat languages as fixed channels that deliver the same information. They assume that knowledge exists in a stable, language - independent form and that switching languages simply means substituting one vocabulary for another. 

    This approach falls short. Languages are the key to human cultures. Their vocabularies never completely overlap. Moreover, languages use different methods to organise and pass on knowledge. This linguistic repertoire shapes the way communities communicate in specific situations, influencing how they structure arguments, frame statements and define the roles of author and audience. These patterns are learned. Similarly, language communities often develop their own conventions to convey authority, caution, criticism, belonging or respect. 

Giorgio Iemmolo. Why is it worth learning new languages?
Internet: <https://ethz.ch>.  (adapted). 



Evaluate the following item with regard to the preceding text.
It can be concluded from the text that AI translation tools are still not able to perfectly translate language in varied communicative situations. 
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Q4429064
Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: FUNCERN Órgão: Prefeitura de Equador - RN Prova: FUNCERN - 2026 - Prefeitura de Equador - RN - Professor Especialista Língua Inglesa |
Q4429064 Inglês

The sequence of movements in the picture below shows:


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Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: IGEDUC Órgão: Prefeitura de Teotônio Vilela - AL Prova: IGEDUC - 2026 - Prefeitura de Teotônio Vilela - AL - Professor de Língua Inglesa |
Q4427870 Inglês
Listening comprehension may be affected by features of connected speech even when learners already know the individual words in written form.

Analyze the statements below.

I. Changes in sentence stress can alter which information is interpreted as prominent or contrastive without requiring a change in the lexical words themselves.
II. Reduced forms in connected speech make grammatical words more prominent than stressed lexical words, thereby facilitating their identification by beginning listeners.
III. Coarticulation and reduction may make word boundaries less acoustically transparent, creating difficulties in segmenting continuous speech into familiar lexical items.

It is CORRECT to state that:
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Q4427861
Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: IGEDUC Órgão: Prefeitura de Teotônio Vilela - AL Prova: IGEDUC - 2026 - Prefeitura de Teotônio Vilela - AL - Professor de Língua Inglesa |
Q4427861 Inglês
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Less job mobility, lower productivity: the cost of cosy capitalism


Australians are changing jobs far less often than they did 50 years ago. Financial insecurity, debt and workplace barriers may be trapping workers in jobs – and helping entrench a low-productivity form of "cosy capitalism".


Fifty years ago work was different, wasn't it? Your first job on leaving school was at the bottom of the hierarchy – filing, making coffee or cleaning up the building site. If all went well you would move through the ranks and retire from the same firm or government department having achieved a middle or senior rank. That was before there was a gig economy, before computers allowed people to set up their own microbusinesses, and before the word 'precariat' had been coined.

What a pity the ABS has challenged this myth with hard data in their annual series on Job Mobility. In the 1970s on average 17 per cent of workers changed their employer or business in any one year: now only 8 per cent of workers do. We're staying much longer in our jobs. This series, going back to 1972, is shown below.

The trend is clearly towards less mobility, interrupted by the occasional economic shock – the 'recession we had to have' in 1990, and the pandemic in 2020.

One might have expected that increased female participation in the workforce would have seen more mobility, but women have followed the same trend as men: after the mid-1980s the male and female lines are indistinguishable.

Tracing cause and effect would involve a large research task, but there are some plausible explanations.

One is that the workforce has become more professionalised. There are fewer short-term unskilled vacancies, and fewer workers lacking any post-school skills. Work has become a more serious commitment by both employees and employers.

Another is that the cost to the individual in changing jobs has increased. This requires some explanation, because it is not immediately obvious.

Over the last half century there has been a significant fall in personal savings. Fifty years ago we were saving about 15 to 20 per cent of household income. Now our savings are between 2 and 5 per cent of income. This is partly a statistical artefact, because we are now accumulating savings in compulsory superannuation. But in terms of liquidity, such as ability to tide oneself over between jobs, it is a real constraint. The ABS Making ends meet survey shows that 27 per cent of households would be unable to raise $2,000 for something important within a week. We are carrying more personal debt, not because we are spendthrifts, but because some debt, particularly student debt, has been forced upon us, and runaway housing prices have increased the burden of mortgage debt.

To illustrate this fall in savings, we note that the days of long strikes are well behind us. Now a one-day strike is newsworthy. In times past strikes could stretch out for weeks and no industry was immune: in 1973 Sydney's Kings Cross strippers went on strike for up to two months.

Some workers now are restricted in their mobility by non-compete clauses. Many workers realise that shifting to another job probably involves going through a probationary period, with an uncertain outcome. The associated risk of unemployment has to be weighed against the lower risk of continued employment in a comparatively secure but less satisfying job.

We have allowed our economy to evolve into what may be called a pattern of cosy capitalism, where businesses have a compliant and stable (if not necessarily content) workforce. It works for business not only in terms of power in the labour market, but also in the broader economy. Consumption is sustained by innovations such as buy-now-pay-later schemes, heightening dependence on regular pay. People with no cash in reserve depend on car loans and are unlikely to risk taking low-cost-high-deductible home and contents insurance. It's all very convenient for the finance sector.

Cosy capitalism is low-productivity capitalism, because it throttles the dynamics of capitalism. Workers become trapped in low-productivity jobs, and entrepreneurs trying to establish new businesses find it hard to attract labour. Existing firms have little incentive to boost labour productivity if they feel assured that they can hang on to workers in low-productivity jobs and don't have to increase their pay. 

There are certain things governments can do to boost productivity that involve removing friction in the system. The government has committed to banning the unjustified use of non-compete clauses, for example. State governments could make it easier for people to move by abolishing real-estate transfer taxes and replacing them with land taxes. The Commonwealth could boost JobSeeker payments and remove some of the spend-down provisions in its asset test, shifting its design from a scheme of distributive welfare to one of income insurance. More could be done to allow for transfer of long service leave and sick leave between employers.

Such policies would boost productivity, but they wouldn't be met with many thanks from those who do well for themselves in our pattern of cosy capitalism. Business lobbies may speak for the short-term interests of existing business, but not for the interests of business in its wider sense. The distinction is important.


https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08/less-job-mobility-lower-productiv ity-the-cost-of-cosy-capitalism/
When the article is read aloud in natural English, connected speech may make familiar written forms harder to recognise. A teacher therefore draws attention to pronunciation patterns without requiring phonetic transcription.

Judge the statements below as True (T) or False (F).

(__) In a phrase such as "would have seen", the auxiliary have may receive a reduced pronunciation when it is not emphasised.
(__) Function words such as and may be reduced in connected speech, so listeners should not expect every written word to receive equal prominence.
(__) Stressed lexical words are normally more heavily reduced than grammatical words because their meanings can be recovered from context.
(__) Awareness of sentence stress can help listeners distinguish prominent information from less prominent grammatical material.

The CORRECT sequence, from top to bottom, is:
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Q4426986
Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: VUNESP Órgão: Prefeitura de Guararema - SP Prova: VUNESP - 2026 - Prefeitura de Guararema - SP - Professor de Inglês |
Q4426986 Inglês

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Text 1


A number of researchers have studied conversations between speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (EFL) and have noted a number of surprising lexico-grammatical characteristics, including:


    •  Increasing of redundancy by adding “inexistent” prepositions (We have to study about...).

    •  Pluralisation of nouns which are considered uncountable in native-speaker English (informations, staffs).

    •  Interchangeable use of the relative pronouns who and which (a book who, a boy which).

    •  Omission of articles where they are mandatory in nativespeaker English.


    The evidence suggests that non-native speakers are not conforming to a native English standard. Truly, they seem to get along perfectly well despite the fact that they miss things out and put things in which ‘they should not do’.


(HARMER, J. The practice of English language teaching. 4th ed, Essex: Pearson Longman. Adaptado)



Text 2


 

    Teaching and learning English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is probably the most radical and controversial approach to emerge in recent years.

    

    Proponents of ELF have already given some indications of how they think conventional approaches to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) should be changed. Jenkins (2000), for example, argues for different priorities in teaching English pronunciation. Teaching certain pronunciation features (which do not cause intelligibility problems), such as the articulation of ‘th’ as an interdental fricative, appears to be a waste of time whereas other common pronunciation problems (such as simplifying consonant clusters) contribute to problems of understanding.


(GRADOLL, H. English Next. UK: British Council, 2006. Adaptado)

Interdental fricatives are consonants with the characteristic that air escapes through a narrow passage between the tongue and the teeth. There is a distinction between unvoiced fricatives, as in the word “thin”, and voiced fricatives, as in “this”. The word with a voiced fricative is found in alternative
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Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: AMEOSC Órgão: Prefeitura de São João do Oeste - SC Prova: AMEOSC - 2026 - Prefeitura de São João do Oeste - SC - Professor de Língua Estrangeira – Inglês - Edital nº 13 |
Q4399067 Inglês
'I felt lighter, more open': Why you are never too old for therapy


We assume therapy belongs to youth, yet older people may be particularly likely to benefit from psychological support.

Maurizio is 70. He recently began therapy in the hope of better understanding a physical pain he had carried since childhood. He has suffered migraines since the age of seven and wanted to explore what might lie behind them.

Over the years he had consulted different doctors and sought multiple opinions – therapy was another attempt to trace the origins of the problem. But he continued even after realising he might never find a single cause. "The process itself became something meaningful, a space for introspection that helped me understand my life more clearly," Mauizio says. (We have omitted the surnames of the therapy clients quoted within this piece to preserve their privacy.)

Antonio, 73, and his wife Gigliola, 68, turned to therapy hoping to save their relationship after years marked by disappointments and unspoken tensions. "After some time, I realised I felt lighter, more open," Antonio says.

"Looking within ourselves and bringing out what we could never say before perhaps helped us," Gigliola adds.

Their stories challenge a common assumption: that therapy is only for the young. And a growing body of evidence suggests that many older people could benefit from the same kind of help.

Therapy in later life

The potential for therapy to treat mental illness and enhance our overall wellbeing is now well-established, yet it is relatively rare for older people to access these services.

According to the World Health Organization, around 14% of people over 70 live with a mental health disorder, most commonly anxiety and depression, and 17% of all suicides occur in people of in this age range. A study published in 2024, however, found that only around 4% of US adults aged 65 and over received psychological therapy, compared with 12% of those aged 18-24 and 8% among those aged 35-64.

This is despite there being no evidence that therapy is any less effective or useful as we get older, according to Pim Cuijpers, professor of clinical psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. "Therapies work across the whole adult age," he says.

Cuijpers recently published a review on psychotherapy for depression across different age groups. "What surprised me is that there is quite a lot of research in older people who are above 75 and we didn't find any indication that psychotherapies differ in that age group either," he says.

Older people may find that therapy helps to target some of the specific concerns that come with ageing, including social isolation and chronic illness, with widespread benefits. Many report improvements in overall wellbeing, renewed motivation and increased social participation. In this way therapy can function as a bridge: helping older adults reconnect with themselves and the wider world. The strongest responses, according to a 2025 review, may be found in group-based interventions, which makes sense, since they offer a structured means of relating with others.

And despite lower levels of initial access, completion rates among older participants can reach up to 54%, often surpassing those of younger adults. This demonstrates that older patients are frequently highly committed to therapy and capable of sustaining the work required for meaningful change.

"We don't know the reasons but we could imagine that when older adults are willing to seek help, they are also more motivated to do that," says Cuijpers.

Barriers to care

Financial difficulties help explain part of the gap in older people beginning therapy in the first place: their health insurance may not cover therapy, and they may not be able to afford to pay for it independently.

A world of therapy options

Therapy comes in many different forms and can be tailored to different needs. A few that may be worth considering trying are:

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns.

• Psychodynamic therapy has an emphasis on how past experiences shape present emotions and behaviours.

• Family therapy is for those who want to work beyond an individual focus (such as in Antonio and Gigliola's case) and looks at relationships and dynamics within the family as a whole.

• Group therapy creates opportunities to share experiences with people facing similar medical diagnoses and to feel more understood and less alone.

But another barrier can arise within the healthcare system itself. The journey into therapy often depends on a referral from a primary care physician, yet some research suggests that older adults are referred to psychological treatments less frequently, even when they present with symptoms of anxiety or depression. Their distress may be seen as a natural response to ageing or physical decline, rather than as a mental health condition that warrants treatment.

Part of this prejudice comes from Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, who argued that therapy stopped working after 40 or 50 years, says Rossana De Beni, professor and senior researcher in experimental psychology at the University of Padua, Italy. In On Psychotherapy (1905), a brief technical paper on the practice of psychoanalysis, Freud noted that above a certain age "the elasticity of the mental processes, on which the treatment depends, is as a rule lacking".

But that is "absolutely not true", says De Beni. In fact, "studies show the opposite".

Clinicians need to see the older person for who they truly are, De Beni points out, not simply as "an old person", but as a multi-faceted individual. Unfortunately, our ageist prejudices are often "deeply entrenched", she says.

Some of the ageism may be internalised by the potential patients themselves. Beliefs such as the idea that mental health problems are simply a normal part of ageing are among the most frequently cited obstacles to accessing care. This is especially problematic, since ageism can itself predispose someone to greater anxiety and depression.

The simple truth is that positive transformation is possible across the lifespan. "Ageing, right to the very end, is a stage of life marked by change," De Beni says. "People become more fully themselves in a process of continuous transformation, learning and flexibility that never truly ends."

Maurizio certainly identifies with this sentiment. "There are three moments when therapy helped me: in dealing with my marital separation, in working through certain conflicts with my children, and in navigating the transition from active work to a pre-retirement phase, where I had to find new ways to socialise," Maurizio says. "I never thought it could be too late for anything."

He hopes that he has set an example for others to follow. "I think it may have planted a small seed: not today, not tomorrow, but perhaps the day after, they will bring it out and water it," he says.



https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260609-mental-health-and-ageingwhy-you-are-never-too-old-for-therapy
The expression "older adults" occurs repeatedly in the article. In a non-rhotic variety of British English, the /r/ represented in older may be absent before a pause or consonant but pronounced when the following word begins with a vowel, as in older adults.
This connected-speech phenomenon is known as:  
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Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: VUNESP Órgão: Prefeitura de Jundiaí - SP Prova: VUNESP - 2026 - Prefeitura de Jundiaí - SP - Professor II - Língua Estrangeira - Inglês |
Q4395894 Inglês
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    Notional-functional syllabuses (hereafter referred to as NFS) began to be used in the United Kingdom in the 1970’s. The distinguishing characteristics of the NFS were its attention to functions as the organizing elements of English language curriculum, and its contrast with a structural syllabus in which sequenced grammatical structures served as organizers. Thus, the NFS focused strongly on the pragmatic purposes to which we put language. Curricula were then organized around such functions as identifying, reporting, denying, accepting, declining, apologizing, etc. Some seventy different language functions were identified.

    The NFS quickly provided popular underpinnings for the development of communicative textbooks and materials in English language courses. It is important to emphasize that the NFS did not necessarily develop communicative competence in learners because, as a syllabus, it still presented language as an inventory of units – functional rather than grammatical units, but units nonetheless. Communicative competence implies a set of strategies for getting messages sent and received and for negotiating meaning as an interactive participant in discourse, whether spoken or written. It pressuposes the learners’ ability to “know how to do” things, being able to act in different situations as they put their constructed knowledge into practice.


(BROWN, H. Douglas. Teaching by principles: an interactive approach to language pedagogy. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Regents, 1994. Adaptado)
Grande parte dos aprendizes brasileiros de Inglês percebe o sufixo -ed no passado e particípio passado de verbos regulares como tendo o mesmo som quando, na verdade, -ed pode assumir diversos sons. Dos verbos a seguir, retirados do texto, assinale aquele em que o -ed final é pronunciado como /id/ e acrescenta uma sílaba à palavra.
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Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: AMEOSC Órgão: Prefeitura de Barra Bonita - SC Prova: AMEOSC - 2026 - Prefeitura de Barra Bonita - SC - Professor II (Língua Estrangeira – Inglês) |
Q4392989 Inglês
Connected speech may involve phonological processes that are not evident from the orthographic form of isolated words. Consider common descriptions of English pronunciation in fluent speech.

Judge the statements below as True (T) or False (F):

(__)In a non-rhotic accent, far away may contain a linking /r/ even though word-final /r/ would not normally be pronounced before a pause.
(__)In ten people, /n/ may be realized with a bilabial place of articulation before /p/, illustrating anticipatory assimilation.
(__)When /t/ is omitted from a cluster in a rapid pronunciation of next day, the process is properly classified as epenthesis.
(__)In connected speech, the sequence /d/ + /j/ in would you may undergo coalescence and be realized with a sound resembling /dʒ/.

The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is:
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Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: AMEOSC Órgão: Prefeitura de Barra Bonita - SC Prova: AMEOSC - 2026 - Prefeitura de Barra Bonita - SC - Professor II (Língua Estrangeira – Inglês) |
Q4392987 Inglês
In natural spoken English, words are not necessarily pronounced in exactly the same way as when they are produced in isolation. Connected speech may involve changes related to linking, sound omission, stress placement and the interaction between adjacent sounds.

Judge the statements below as True (T) or False (F):

(__)In a non-rhotic variety of British English, the final letter r in far is normally silent when the word occurs alone, but the corresponding sound may be pronounced in far away because the following word begins with a vowel.
(__)In rapid speech, the t sound in next day may be omitted because of the complex consonant sequence, illustrating elision rather than the addition of a new sound.
(__)In did you, the final sound of did and the initial sound represented by y in you may interact and produce a pronunciation similar to the beginning of the word June.
(__)The words photograph and photography maintain primary stress on the same syllable because words belonging to the same lexical family normally preserve identical stress patterns.

The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is: 
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Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: FUNDATEC Órgão: Prefeitura de Tapera - RS Prova: FUNDATEC - 2026 - Prefeitura de Tapera - RS - Professor dos Anos Finais do Ensino Fundamental - Língua Inglesa |
Q4384488 Inglês

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(Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/16/expect-more-potholes-uk-roads-summer-
heatwaves-rac - text specially adapted for this test).

Considering the standard pronunciation rules for the -ed suffix, mark the alternative in which the -ed ending has the same pronunciation as the word “assumed” (l. 03) used in the text. 
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Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: IGEDUC Órgão: Prefeitura de São Bento do Una - PE Prova: IGEDUC - 2026 - Prefeitura de São Bento do Una - PE - Professor II - Língua Inglesa |
Q4379796 Inglês
Consider the noun-verb pairs record, permit, and increase in many standard varieties of English.
Which statement is CORRECT?
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Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: FGV Órgão: Prefeitura de Salvador - BA Prova: FGV - 2026 - Prefeitura de Salvador - BA - Professor Municipal I – Língua Estrangeira – Inglês |
Q4357856 Inglês

TEXT I 

The Multimodal Approach in English Language Teaching 

In today’s media-rich environment, the vast majority of texts students engage with daily — such as YouTube videos, Instagram reels, TikTok clips, streaming series, video games and blog posts — are not only digital but also multimodal. These texts combine language with image, sound, movement and spatial design to convey meaning, often requiring learners to interpret and respond across multiple modes simultaneously. As digital technologies evolve, the pervasiveness and complexity of multimodal communication grow, reshaping both how we communicate and what it means to be literate.

Contemporary communication extends far beyond speech and writing; it is a layered, dynamic process that includes visual, aural, gestural and spatial elements. As such, literacy can no longer be understood solely as a linguistic skill. To participate fully in today’s social, academic and professional contexts, learners need more than the ability to read and write alphabetic text — they need to view, interpret, evaluate and represent meaning through a range of semiotic resources. In this context, traditional notions of literacy are insufficient and language education must evolve to reflect the multimodal nature of communication in the 21st century […]

Importantly, multimodal literacy also promotes accessibility and inclusion. Learners with reading difficulties, sensory impairments or diverse learning needs often struggle with traditional printbased instruction. Multimodal texts provide alternative pathways to meaning, allowing information to be accessed and expressed through visuals, sound, movement and space. This not only supports learners with special educational needs but benefits all students by offering multiple modes for engagement and expression. By embedding multimodal materials and encouraging students to compose multimodal texts, teachers create more equitable and inclusive classrooms. Multimodal learning reflects how people communicate in real life — and, crucially, supports the development of diverse literacies needed for participation in contemporary society. 

In summary, integrating multimodal literacy into language teaching fosters deeper engagement, enhances learning outcomes and equips students with the skills to navigate and contribute meaningfully to today’s complex communicative landscape.


Adapted from https://film-english.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/themultimodal-approach-in-language-teaching.pdf

When reading a text in which the preposition “through” is used, as in “expressed through visuals” (3rd paragraph), the teacher should tell the students that the word is pronounced in the same way as in 
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Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: AMEOSC Órgão: Prefeitura de Mondaí - SC Prova: AMEOSC - 2026 - Prefeitura de Mondaí - SC - Professor Licenciado – Área III / Disciplina: Inglês - Edital nº 39 |
Q4349681 Inglês
Match the information-structure configurations in Column I with the prosodic interpretations in Column II.

COLUMN I
1.Broad focus. 2.Narrow focus. 3.Corrective focus. 4.Deaccenting of given information.
COLUMN II
(__)Prominence is concentrated on a constituent that replaces or rejects an explicitly activated alternative in the preceding discourse.

(__)Previously established material receives reduced prominence because it contributes relatively little new information.

(__)A relatively large constituent, potentially the entire proposition, is presented as new information without contrast being restricted to one lexical item.

(__)Prominence identifies one constituent as the principal informational contribution while the remainder is treated as backgrounded or presupposed.



The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is: 
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Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: AMEOSC Órgão: Prefeitura de Mondaí - SC Prova: AMEOSC - 2026 - Prefeitura de Mondaí - SC - Professor Licenciado – Área III / Disciplina: Inglês - Edital nº 39 |
Q4349672 Inglês
Match the connected-speech phenomena in Column I with the descriptions in Column II.

COLUMN I
1.Weak-form reduction. 2.Assimilation. 3.Elision. 4.Resyllabification/linking.

COLUMN II
(__)A segment changes some of its phonetic properties under the influence of a neighboring segment.
(__)A function word that has a full citation form is realized with reduced prominence and frequently with a centralized vowel in unstressed speech.
(__)A segment expected from the citation form is omitted in a phonologically favorable connected-speech environment.
(__)A consonantal segment at the edge of one word is perceptually associated with the following vowel-initial syllable in fluent speech.



The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is:
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Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: AMAUC Órgão: Prefeitura de Piratuba - SC Prova: AMAUC - 2026 - Prefeitura de Piratuba - SC - Professor Ensino Infantil e Ensino Fundamental - Inglês |
Q4348685 Inglês
During pronunciation activities, a teacher asks students to notice sound contrasts, plural endings, word stress and rhythm in spoken English. Considering basic principles of English phonetics and phonology, mark T for true and F for false.
(__)The contrast between ship and sheep shows that a change in a vowel sound may distinguish word meaning in English.
(__)The plural ending written as -s may be pronounced differently depending on the final sound of the noun, as in cats, dogs and buses.
(__)Stress placement can contribute to differences in pronunciation between some nouns and verbs, as in certain uses of record.
(__)English rhythm is based on giving approximately equal duration and prominence to every syllable in an utterance.
After analyzing the statements, choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence from top to bottom. 
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Q4348468
Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound , Ensino da Língua Estrangeira Inglesa ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: FAURGS Órgão: IF-SC Prova: FAURGS - 2026 - IF-SC - Professor EBTT - Inglês |
Q4348468 Inglês
Within the paradigm of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), Jennifer Jenkins (2000) argues that successful communication relies on mutual intelligibility rather than conformity to native-speaker norms. Based on this perspective, which pedagogical practice is the most appropriate for teaching listening and speaking? 
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Q4347972
Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: AMEOSC Órgão: Prefeitura de Mondaí - SC Prova: AMEOSC - 2026 - Prefeitura de Mondaí - SC - Professor Licenciado - Área: Professor de Inglês (Habilitado e Não Habilitado) - Edital nº 43 |
Q4347972 Inglês
Regarding English pronunciation and stress, mark T for true and F for false.
(__)In standard descriptions of English, the noun record and the verb record may be distinguished by a shift in primary stress.
(__)Unstressed grammatical words may undergo vowel reduction in connected speech, which helps explain pronunciations involving schwa.
(__)Words with similar spelling necessarily preserve the same stressed syllable when derivational suffixes are added.
(__)English spelling provides useful information about pronunciation, but grapheme-to-sound relationships are not consistently one-to-one.
The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is: 
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Q4342757
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: IGEDUC Órgão: Prefeitura de Paulo Afonso - BA Prova: IGEDUC - 2026 - Prefeitura de Paulo Afonso - BA - Professor 1 - Língua Inglesa (6º ao 9º Ano) |
Q4342757 Inglês
Xbox caps cloud gaming at 15 hours a month for Game Pass subscribers


Xbox is introducing strict monthly time limits for Game Pass subscribers who stream games online through its cloud gaming service.

The changes, which come into effect in November, will see a subscriber to the £16.99 Ultimate monthly plan able to stream games for up to 15 hours a month - before having to purchase additional cloud play time.

Xbox said the limits were due to the rising cost of cloud gaming, and they would allow the firm to "continue to invest" in the service's "reliability and performance".

While some questioned whether the service was used by many to begin with, others called out the additional limits for subscribers.

Cloud gaming allows players to stream and play games online from a remote server using a phone, tablet or controller, rather than downloading and running it on a PC or console at home.

Different tiers of subscription to Game Pass will have different limits.

Premium users will get 10 hours, while those on the basic Essential tier will get five hours a month before they have to pay for extra time.

Xbox claimed just 4% of the people who use Games Pass - its Netflix-style subscription plan for games - use its cloud gaming service.

A recent Wall Street Journal article reported Game Pass has 30 million subscribers, which would leave the number of people affected by the cloud gaming changes at roughly 1.2 million.

"This is a pretty awful change, hopefully Xbox adds an extra zero on the end cause 15hrs is abysmal. 30 minutes a day, really?" posted one commenter on X. 

Jez Corden of Windows Central told the BBC the announcement showed that "absolutely nothing is safe from the AI-driven component crisis," but he added it also highlighted "where Microsoft's priorities are".

Both cloud gaming and AI use the same infrastructure - data centres - to process information.

"For them to continue to offer unlimited access to Microsoft Copilot [AI] for free but restrict paid cloud gaming in this way shows some contradiction," he added.

Xbox said in a blog post that from November, users would also be able to use the company's cloud gaming feature without subscribing to Game Pass, but by buying "cloud playtime hours" through the Xbox store.

It has not revealed how much extra hours of cloud gaming would cost.

Xbox's 'reset'

The news comes as Asha Sharma, Xbox's chief executive, told the BBC in an exclusive recent interview that the company and the industry as a whole needed to "start to innovate on affordability and efficiency," amid a "crisis" in computing prices.

"As an industry, we're in the middle of 'Rampocalypse'. We're in the middle of people coming back from Covid and the patterns changing," she said.

"Rampocalypse" refers to the fact that the cost of a previously cheap hardware component, random access memory (Ram), has shot up in price with the expansion of compute-hungry data centres. Some people also call it "Ramageddon".

Sharma added: "Within Xbox, we haven't been healthy. And so a lot of the reset that will take us throughout the year is really meant to help ensure that we are here for the next 25 years and we're continuing to serve our purpose and our mission."

According to Xbox owner Microsoft's July financial filings, annual Xbox revenue dropped by $1.7bn to roughly $21.8bn (£16.1bn) - a 7% decline from 2025.

Part of Sharma's reset has seen 3,200 people let go at the company - with 1,600 job losses announced in July, and the remaining posts to go gradually over the course of Microsoft's 2027 financial year.

Studios which had been acquired by Xbox - including Compulsion Games, which made the Bafta-winning South of Midnight and Double Fine Productions, makers of Psychonauts - were also made independent again.

Sharma is betting these changes can reverse its fortunes despite concerns over its subscription strategy and rising AI-related costs.

"Sometimes you have to restructure a business when it's not doing well, and that was true with our Xbox business," Microsoft's president Brad Smith recently told the BBC.

Cloud gaming

In an interview in July, Jeff Gattiss, Amazon's head of gaming, told the BBC he believed the rising cost of tech would mean people will turn to streaming games online rather than buying new consoles.

However, despite some big names investing in the technology, it has never fully reached the mainstream.

Google launched its own cloud gaming service Stadia in November 2019, positioning it as a "Netflix for games".

The service was discontinued in January 2023 after the company said it had not attracted as many users as hoped.

For many gamers, cloud gaming remains too unreliable for regular use due to its reliance on high-speed internet - and an additional fee may further limit its appeal.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj06zd4l99lo

Consider the commenter's question quoted in the article.


"30 minutes a day, really?" 


If spoken as an expression of disbelief rather than a neutral request for information, which prosodic interpretation is appropriate?

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Q4338913
Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects , Pronúncia e Som | Pronunciation and Sound , Ensino da Língua Estrangeira Inglesa ,
Ano: 2026 Banca: Unesc Órgão: InoversaSul Prova: Unesc - 2026 - InoversaSul - Professor de Inglês - Educação Infantil |
Q4338913 Inglês
During an activity involving names, an English teacher notices that some children assume that the name of a letter corresponds directly to the sound that the letter represents in every word. The teacher therefore develops playful listening activities involving letter names and familiar vocabulary.
Considering the relationship between English letter names and pronunciation, mark T, for true, and F, for false.

(__) The name of the letter "B" begins with the consonant sound found at the beginning of "ball."
(__) When pronounced as the name of the letter, "G" begins with the same consonant sound heard at the beginning of "game."
(__) The name of the letter "J" begins with the same consonant sound found at the beginning of "juice."
(__) Activities involving alphabet knowledge can distinguish letter names from sounds occurring in words without requiring formal phonetic terminology from children.


After analysis, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom. 
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Respostas
1: C
2: C
3: C
4: E
5: B
6: C
7: B
8: E
9: A
10: C
11: C
12: B
13: B
14: A
15: D
16: D
17: C
18: A
19: C
20: D
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