Questões de Concurso

The role of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) challenges the traditional native-speaker ideal, shifting the pedagogical focus towards intelligibility and cultural fluidity in global interactions. Regarding the implications of ELF for teaching culture in the English classroom, mark T for True and F for False in the following statements:

(__)ELF pedagogy prioritizes the ability to accommodate and negotiate meaning across diverse cultural backgrounds over the imitation of native-speaker cultural norms.

(__)Teaching culture in an ELF context implies presenting the culture of the United Kingdom or the United States as the sole correct model for social behavior.

(__)Intercultural awareness in ELF involves reflecting on how one's own cultural background influences communication with speakers from different origins.

(__)In the ELF perspective, cultural misunderstandings should be ignored to maintain the flow of conversation without interruption.

Choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.

Phrasal verbs are a prime example of how combining a verb with a particle can create multiple meanings, often idiomatic, which challenge learners of English as a second language. Regarding the contextual meanings of the verb "take" combined with different particles, mark T for True and F for False:

(__)"Take after" means to resemble a parent or ancestor in appearance or character.

(__)"Take off" can mean to remove clothing or for an aircraft to leave the ground.

(__)"Take over" means to assume control or responsibility for something.

(__)"Take up" means to refuse an offer or invitation politely.

Choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.

Reading strategies are cognitive tools that students use to comprehend text efficiently, adapting their reading style according to their purpose. If a student is looking through a movie schedule solely to find the starting time of a specific film, ignoring the plot summaries and reviews, they are applying a specific strategy. Select the alternative that correctly identifies this reading strategy.

In the context of English Language Teaching (ELT), the concept of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) proposed by authors like Michael Byram emphasizes that learning a language is inseparable from understanding its culture. When a teacher promotes activities that require students to mediate between their own culture and the target culture, avoiding essentialist stereotypes, they are fostering a specific skill. Select the alternative that correctly identifies the component of Byram's model related to the ability to interpret a document or event from another culture, to explain it and relate it to documents or events from one's own.

Inferential comprehension goes beyond the literal meaning of the text, requiring the reader to combine prior knowledge with textual clues to deduce implicit information. Read the following excerpt: "John looked at the thermometer, grabbed his heavy coat and scarf, and braced himself before opening the door." Choose the alternative that best describes the inference a reader should make about the setting.