"Decoloniality aims to break paradigms crystallized in sociocultural, political-economic, ethnic-racial, and gender/sexuality relations imposed by the processes of coloniality of power. In turn, the concept of coloniality of power (Quijano, 2000) clarifies that colonial relations in the economic and political spheres did not end with the destruction of colonialism. Coloniality, according to Maldonado-Torres (2007), is reproduced in a triple dimension: of power, knowledge, and being. […] But how does teaching English relate to the concept of decoloniality? Pardo (2019) explains that coloniality permeates everyday school life in public schools (but I believe we can extend this account to other contexts in which English circulates as the language of instruction or as the target language)." (Megale, 2020, p. 3)

MEGALE, A. O que é uma perspectiva decolonial de ensino em/de inglês?. ENTREVISTA. 25 de agosto de 2020. Disponível em: https://www. santillana.com.br/conteudos/o-que-e-uma-perspectiva-decolonial-de-ensino-em-de-ingles. Acesso em: 22 abr. 2025.

Judge the items as (T) TRUE or (F) FALSE about Decolonialism in English Language Teaching.

( ) It is not uncommon to come across questions about whether your English is British or American, whether you have ever lived in the United States, or which English rock band you prefer. According to Pardo (2019), these questions reveal issues of submission and subordination and demonstrate how much the issue of coloniality is still present in English language teaching today.
( ) It is emphasized that a model of native speaker to be imitated, usually the American or British, is still very present in language teaching and in teaching materials that do not "consider the diversity and multiplicity of epistemologies, cultures and English-speaking people around the world" (Pardo, 2019, p. 212).
( ) The United States and England are positioned as "'owners of knowledge´ and language, reiterating their epistemic privilege and the maintenance of the logic of coloniality". Therefore, it is necessary to break with the imposed logic that only hegemonic countries represent cultures and models of English speakers.
( ) Part of this process of decoloniality in English language teaching is related to the view that the role of the teacher is not the mere technical and utilitarian work of teaching English, but rather providing students with a linguistic education that is based on the concept that teaching a language is a political task that should aim to develop critical thinking and that, to this end, it must be committed to work that values difference, be it linguistic, political, social, ethnic or gender, as a pedagogical input and as a mark of our humanity.
( ) "When we realize that English is used as a language of interaction in more than 70 countries (Eberhard; Gary; Charles, 2020 apud Megale, 2020, p.3), the opportunity opens up for the histories and cultures of nonhegemonic countries to enter the school community".

Choose the CORRECT sequence. 

"Active methodologies encompass a broad framework of approaches, strategies, and learning activities that work with students' autonomy and creativity in the construction and application of knowledge. Among the active teaching-learning methods, the best known are: Flipped Classroom, Problem-Based Learning, Gamification, Hybrid Teaching, Project-Based Learning, Design Thinking, Cooperative Learning, Experiential Team Activity, Portfolio, films, storytelling, theatrical technique, technical visit, seminar, debate, case study, Verbalization Group and Observation Group, role-play, field practice, among others." (Moran, 2013; Pessoa et al, 2019; Leal et al, 2019; Nogueira et al, 2020 apud Nascimento; Oliveira-Melo, 2022, p.3)

NASCIMENTO, W. C.; OLIVEIRA-MELO, F. G. English language and active learning: challenges, experiences, and perspectives from teachers. Research, Society and Development, v. 11, n. 6, 2022. Disponível em: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/29345. Acesso em: 10 nov. 2024.

Choose the INCORRECT item about flipped classroom.

"The English language, the study of which is mandatory in High School (LDB, Art. 35-A i 4), must be understood as a globally used language due to its multiplicity and variety of uses, users, and functions in contemporary times, as defined in the BNCC for Elementary Education - Final Years." (BNCC, 2021, p. 476)

BRASIL. Ministério da Educação: Secretaria de Educação Básica. Base Curricular Nacional Comum: Educação é a base. Ensino Médio. A área de Linguagens e suas Tecnologias, 2021. 


Choose the INCORRECT alternative regarding English language teaching, according to the BNCC.

Read the following excerpt from OCENs (2006, p.116):

"Activity B
A teacher brings an advertisement about Mother's Day, taken from a magazine. She asks students to read it and answer questions such as:

- Do the mothers represented in the advertisement resemble those you know? Why not?
- Which mothers are not represented in the advertisement?
- Which children will give presents to their mothers?
- How do the children get money to buy presents for their mothers?
- Who creates/produces these advertisements?
- Why do the people who produce the advertisements spend time and effort to ensure that the reader knows which product is available on the market?"

BRASIL. Ministério da Educação: Secretaria de Educação Básica. Orientações Curriculares para o Ensino Médio: Linguagens, códigos e suas tecnologias. Brasília, 2006, p.116.

Concerning Critical Literacy studies, choose the CORRECT alternative:

The Curricular Guidelines for High School (2006, p.87) propose new aims for Foreign Languages teaching.

BRASIL. Ministério da Educação: Secretaria de Educação Básica. Orientações Curriculares para o Ensino Médio: Linguagens, códigos e suas tecnologias. Brasília, 2006, p.87.

Choose the item(s) that point(s) those new aims.

I. To revisit the reflection on the educational role of foreign language teaching in High School and emphasize its importance.
II. To reaffirm the relevance of the notion of citizenship and discuss the practice of this concept in foreign language teaching.
III. To discuss the problem of exclusion in education in the face of "globalizing" values and the feeling of inclusion often associated with knowledge of foreign languages.
IV. To introduce theories on language (literacies, multiliteracies, multimodality, hypertext).
V. To provide suggestions for the practice of foreign language teaching through new technologies.

Choose the CORRECT alternative.

PCNs (2000, p.28) bring some competencies and skills to be developed in Modern Foreign Languages and make some reflection about what to teach.

BRASIL. Ministério da Educação: Secretaria de Educação Básica. Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (Ensino Médio). Parte II - Linguagens, Códigos e suas Tecnologias. 2000. 

Choose the INCORRECT sentence about the discussion presented in PCNs (2000) about foreign language teaching.

"Grammar describes how we combine, organize and change words and parts of words to make meaning. We use rules for this description." (Spratt; Pulverness; Williams, 2005, p.5).

SPRATT, M.; PULVERNESS A.; WILLIAMS, M. The TKT – Teaching Knowledge Test Course. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2005. 

Based on the concept of grammar, choose the INCORRECT sentence.

Interests in learning strategies began with the publication of papers collectively known as the "good language learner" studies (Cohen; Weaver, 1998). Since then, hundreds of studies have been generated that look at different aspects of learning strategies and their roles in language learning. In an effort to make sense of the huge database and numerous research findings in this area, Oxford (1990, as cited in Cohen; Weaver, 1998) differentiates learning strategies into four categories: cognitive, metacognitive, affective and social (Oxford, 2002, p.121).

Oxford. L.Language Learning Strategies in a Nutshell: Update and ESL Suggestions.In: RICHARDS, J. C. & RENANDYA. W.A. Methodology in Language Teaching: an Anthology of Current Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002. Chapter 11 - pages 121 -132.

Identify the learning strategies as exposed by Oxford (2002) by matching each definition to the CORRECT category.

1. Cognitive
2. Metacognitive
3. Affective
4. Social

( ) This strategy deals with the planning, monitoring, and evaluation of language learning activities. For example, students may develop a plan for monitoring their progress by constantly comparing their current level of proficiency with the course goals outlined in the curriculum.
( ) This strategy involves the identification, retention, and retrieval of language elements. For example, students may use memory-enhancing strategies (e.g., the keyword method) to help them remember new words.
( ) This strategy refers to actions learners take to interact with users of the language. For example, students may deliberately seek out opportunities to use the target language with native speakers of the language.
( ) This strategy serves to regulate emotions, attitudes, and motivation. For example, students may read linguistically simplified books to develop a positive attitude toward reading materials.

Choose the CORRECT sequence. 

According to some applied linguists, CLT was a very important approach, but it has some critical points that should be considered. 

PIAZZA, Paulo Thiago. The historical development of english as a foreign language teaching in brazilian schools: methods and legal documents. Revista Contribuciones a Las Ciencias Sociales, São José dos Pinhais, v.17, n.6, p. 01-23, 2024. Disponível em: https://ojs.revistacontribuciones.com/ojs/index.php/clcs. Acesso em: 10 mai. 2025.

Choose the item(s) that point(s) the criticism to the CLT approach.

I. Difficulties in defining which functions of language (or which tasks) should be presented to students (and in which sequence).
II. Dividing teaching into functions of language or tasks brings the negative argument of teaching atomization, i.e., of breaking the language in small pieces that do not form a coherent whole.
III. The debate if it is possible to have "real-life communication" in a classroom setting.
IV. The inability of CLT to adapt to the various contexts of language teaching, such as cultural contexts that posit a hierarchy between students and teachers.

Choose the CORRECT alternative.

Concerning the history of teaching English as a foreign language, in the 70s, teachers faced another approach to teaching. Language was not seen as a set of sentences anymore, but as a set of communicative events.

PIAZZA, Paulo Thiago. The historical development of english as a foreign language teaching in brazilian schools: methods and legal documents. Revista Contribuciones a Las Ciencias Sociales, São José dos Pinhais, v.17, n.6, p. 01-23, 2024. Disponível em: https://ojs.revistacontribuciones.com/ojs/index.php/clcs. Acesso em: 10 mai. 2025. 


Judge the items as ( T ) TRUE or ( F ) FALSE according to the Communicative Approach.

( ) Instead of organizing the syllabus based on grammar topics (simple past, simple present, if clauses, etc.), the organization is focused on developing students´ communicative competence.
( ) Classes based on Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) tend to be more teacher-centered, with a greater emphasis on teacher-student interactions and situations where the language must be used by students for communicative purposes.
( ) Errors are viewed as part of development, and most of the time are not corrected immediately. ( ) The role of the teacher in CLT is to promote situations where students need to communicate in their mother tongue.
( ) Students must be exposed to authentic materials, that is, language as it is actually used in daily routines in the real world.

Choose the CORRECT sequence.

"Teaching is characterized by many factors, such as teachers´ beliefs, preferences, personalities, and one of the factors that mostly influences teaching is the method, which holds systematic procedures prescribed to the teacher based on linguistic theory or legal documents." (Piazza, 2024, p.3)

PIAZZA, Paulo Thiago. The historical development of english as a foreign language teaching in brazilian schools: methods and legal documents. Revista Contribuciones a Las Ciencias Sociales, São José dos Pinhais, v.17, n.6, p. 01-23, 2024. Disponível em: https://ojs.revistacontribuciones.com/ojs/index.php/clcs. Acesso em: 10 mai. 2025.

According to Larsen-Freeman and Anderson (2011, p.38 apud PIAZZA, 2024, p. 5), in a class based on the GrammarTranslation method, the "fundamental purpose of learning a language is to be able to read literature written in the target language".

Choose the item that IS NOT applied to the Grammar-Translation method.

Em relação à opção metodológica indicada pelos PCNs, a proposta é tomar o conhecimento linguístico do aluno como ponto de partida para definir o que será desenvolvido, considerando o valor da linguagem nos diferentes círculos sociais (PCN - EM, 1998, p. 17). Com base nesse princípio, as tarefas de ensino da língua na sala de aula devem:

Os PCN (1998, p. 24) adotam uma perspectiva sociointeracionista da linguagem. Segundo essa perspectiva, "a língua é um sistema de signos histórico e social que possibilita ao homem significar o mundo e a realidade. A partir disso, essa perspectiva da linguagem pressupõe que:

Considerando a concepção de linguagem apresentada no texto, é INCORRETO afirmar que: 

Com base na concepção discursiva de linguagem defendida no texto, é CORRETO afirmar que:

Considerando o seguinte trecho do testamento: "DEIXO MEUS BENS A MINHA IRMÃ NÃO A MEU SOBRINHO JAMAIS SERÁ PAGA A CONTA DO PADEIRO NADA DOU AOS POBRES", identifique qual seria a principal implicação se o testamento fosse pontuado da seguinte maneira: "DEIXO MEUS BENS A MINHA IRMÃ. NÃO A MEU SOBRINHO. JAMAIS SERÁ PAGA A CONTA DO PADEIRO. NADA DOU AOS POBRES."

No trecho: "É no superior que deságuam as fragilidades. Quem estava no Ensino Médio na pandemia hoje está no Superior, e com um recuo na alfabetização.", a figura de linguagem presente na expressão em destaque é um exemplo de:

A coesão e a coerência são elementos fundamentais para a construção do sentido no texto. Com base no Texto I, analise a seguinte frase: "O estudo também mostrou que caiu de 45% para 38% a proporção de entrevistados que chegaram ao Ensino Médio nos dois níveis mais altos das escalas de alfabetismo (elementar e consolidado)."

Como o autor garante a coesão e a coerência da frase?

No contexto de produção textual, os gêneros discursivos são essenciais para a construção do sentido e da comunicação eficaz. Considerando o Texto I, qual das alternativas abaixo melhor exemplifica o gênero discursivo predominante?

De acordo com as Orientações Curriculares para o Ensino Médio (OCEM) e OCEM-MT, qual das seguintes estratégias de ensino deve ser priorizada no contexto do Ensino Médio, considerando os dados sobre alfabetismo funcional apresentados no texto?