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Text V
Language Assessment and the new Literacy Studies
Some Final Remarks
Planning language assessment from a structuralist view of language has been a fairly easy task, since it aims at testing the correct use of grammar and lexical structures. This has been a very comfortable way to evaluate students’ performance in many regular schools or language institutes due to the stability of standardized answers. From the perspective of the new literacy studies, the comfort of teaching and assessing objective and homogeneous linguistic contents is replaced by a wider spectrum of language teaching and assessing possibilities, whose key elements turn to be difference and critique. Typical activities based on this new approach would enable students to make and negotiate meanings in a much more flexible way, corroborating the novel notion of unstable, dynamic, collaborative and distributed knowledge.
The inclusion of contents of such nature in language assessments may be, at a first glance, a very laborious process due to the fact we are simply not accustomed to that. Actually, we sometimes find ourselves deprived from the teaching skills necessary to apply a more critical teaching approach, a fact that is much the results of our positivist educational background.
Nonetheless, since the emergent digital epistemology will require subject more capable of designing and redesigning meaning critically towards a great deal of representational modes, we need to reconsider our teaching approaches, go further and seek theories that take such issues into account. By redefining the notions of language and knowledge, we, thus, assume that the new literacy studies from the last decades may offer very good insights to the field of foreign language teaching.
The re-conceptualization of language assessment according to the new literacies project presented in this paper does not intend to suggest prompt fixed answers, but it takes the risk of outlining possible activities, signaling certain changes regarding its characteristics and contents, as previously shared.
The increasing importance of the new literacy and multiliteracies studies and their fruitful theoretical insight for the rethinking of pedagogical issues invite us to review our foreign language teaching practices in a different perspective. By sharing some of our local findings, we attempt to corroborate the collaborative and distributed knowledge discussed by the literacies theory itself and hope to be contributing to the new educational demands of the emerging epistemological basis.
From: DUBOC, A.P.M. Language Assessment and the new Literacy Studies. Lenguaje
37 (1), 2009. pp. 159-178, p. 175-176.
Text 4 (for questions 42, 43, 44, 45, and 46)
Social networks
Going into the small room at the end of the corridor, Roberta sat down _______ 1 the computer. It was the computer she had bought when her old one’s hard disk had started to go wrong. Her new computer was a laptop with a lot of extra features and she needed it for her online work _______ 2 her students. Roberta had started to worry that her students would be bored unless she used modern technology in her teaching.
She turned_______ 3 the switch at the back of her computer. She looked at the email messages waiting for her answer, but she ignored them. Then she looked at the homework posted on a special site she created for the students, but she didn’t feel like correcting it. Instead she went to her favorite social network site and looked at the news about her friends. She sent messages to her favorite people and she had many online conversations _______ 4 teaching and other things. She posted some new messages on her own web page and then watched a film clip on a video site which her friend had told her about.
_______ 5 now, it was late and she realized that she had spent too much time talking to her friends online. She was very tired. She would have to do all her work in the morning.
(HARMER, J. Essential Teacher Knowledge: core concepts in English language teaching, p. 42. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2012.
Adaptado.)
“Then she looked at the homework posted on a special site she created for the students, but she didn’t feel like correcting it.”
The phrasal verb underlined in the excerpt can be translated into Portuguese as
The Amazon Forest
The Amazon is often called the lungs of the earth and produces 20% of the world’s oxygen. For this reason, many people are trying to stop deforestation in the rainforest. Brazil, for example, is working hard to help the rainforest survive.
A few years ago, the Brazilian government put forward a plan called ARPA (Amazon Region Protected Areas). It had the support of many international agencies, including the World Bank, and the German Development Bank, KfW. The main aim was to build new areas of protected rainforest, maintain areas of the rainforest that hadn’t yet been destroyed, and stop deforestation. Deforestation contributes greatly to global warming because carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere when trees get cut down and burned.
One of the first areas to be recognized as part of ARPA was the Tumucumaque Mountains National Park. It is 38,800 km2 and is the same size as Switzerland, a small country in Central Europe. It’s the world’s largest protected tropical national park, and the second largest national park. It is home to certain species of jaguar, eagle, and lizard, which can only survive in the rainforest. Many of these species are under threat from climate change and deforestation.
In order to work in the park, conservationists need
a reliable map. However, no map existed, and they
didn’t have enough knowledge to make one on their
own. They came up with the idea of involving local
tribes to help them, combining modern and ancient
methods to produce a map. The tribes learned to use
global positioning system handsets (GPS), in conjunction with their local knowledge of the area, which
included fishing and hunting grounds, and places of
historical or mythical importance. Aerial photos were
a 20useful aid in the process as well. This method of
map-making is now the key to the future of rainforests,
in Brazil and the rest of the world too.
1. The (‘s) in “The Amazon is often called the lungs of the earth and produces 20% of the world’s oxygen.”, is the contraction for the verb to be (is).
2. In “In order to work in the park, conservationists need a reliable map. However, no map existed, and they didn’t have enough knowledge to make one on their own.”, the underlined pronouns refer to ‘conservationists’
3. The phrasal verb ‘cut down’, in the second paragraph, means to reduce the amount.
4. The negative form of “They came up with the idea of involving local tribes to help them, combining modern and ancient methods to produce a map.” is They didn’t come up with the idea of involving local tribes to help them, combining modern and ancient methods to not produce a map.
Choose the alternative which presents the correct sentences.
I. “Our sofa is really old. We need to ___ it.”
II. “After showing James the pie charts and diagrams,
I was finally able to ___ him.” III. “I feel sorry for Andrew. His brother's always ___ him even when he’s done nothing wrong.
IV. If Mel thinks she's going to ___ being late again, she's terribly mistaken!”
Complete the sentence using the correct phrasal verb.
Brian started doing a French course, but he __________ after a few weeks.
Read the comic strip and choose the correct option for the question:
Instruction: answer question based on the following text.
Increasing Sustainability in Vacation Rentals Through Home Automation
Consider the following statements about the highlighted words cut down (l. 16):
I. It’s a phrasal verb.
II. It could be substituted by “lower” with no significative changes in meaning (consider “lower the costs”).
III. It is often followed by the preposition “on”.
Which statements are correct?
I.The word "trinkets" could be translated as "bugigangas" (6º§).
II."Rule off" is a phrasal verb (4º§).
III."Belt loops" could be replaced by "Strap tied" (5º§).
Which one(s) is(are) CORRECT?
Based on the text above, judge the following item.
The verbal phrase “quit making” could be correctly replaced
with quit to make, without changing the meaning of the
text.
Based on the comic strip above, judge the following item.
In ‘never back up any more than you absolutely have to’, the
phrasal verb ‘back up’ is synonymous with back down.
Analise as sentenças abaixo:
Please turn on the light.
Take off your shoes.
He took off his jacket.
Quando transitivos, os phrasal verbs podem ser
separados. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta,
corretamente, os phrasal verbs acima de forma
separadas.
It was Maria’s first day at school, her first week in the United States. Her middle school in San Francisco was the biggest building she’d ever seen. It was bigger than the entire Best Buy store she’d walked through in awe on her first day in the city.
Complete the sentences with the phrasal verbs and mark to correct answer.
1- Do you think he can _____ without job? (sobreviver)
2- They ________ the gate. (arrombaram)
3- Why I _______ travel? (desisti)
Tick the incorrect alternative to translate the phrasal verbs:
Conheça nossos planos