Questões de Língua Inglesa

According to Duboc (2016, p. 62), critical literacy differs from critical reading as the former holds that:

• A. Any reading requires silent and isolated contexts.Individual reading should privilege explicit text data.
• B. Individual reading should privilege explicit text data.
• C. Readers should always try to identify authorial intention.
• D. The reader must look for information provided by the text.
• E. Reading is an exercise which considers a diversity of meanings.

The woman was carrying a __________________ bag.

• A. black small plastic
• B. black and small plastic
• C. small black plastic
• D. plastic small black

The digital age has been disrupting the normative structures of education in many ways. According to Bohn (2013, p. 97), one of the challenges language educators now face is

• A. offering students means to exercise brain plasticity.
• B. making sure students access the Internet from home.
• C. insisting that schools provide tablets for each student.
• D. designing materials that integrate written texts and oral skills.
• E. paying close attention to students’ language proficiency level.

The following sentences present information provided in each of the passages from Text 2. Read them, add the corresponding number of each passage (1 to 4), and mark the option that presents the correct sequencing:

( ) Both perspectives attribute value to reflection.

( ) The classroom should be seen as part of a wider context.

( ) ELF teachers are stimulated to reflect on their own teaching.

( ) ELF studies have had great impact on English language teaching.

• A. 4 – 3 – 2 – 1.
• B. 3 – 4 – 1 – 2.
• C. 2 – 3 – 4 – 1.
• D. 4 – 2 – 1 – 3.
• E. 2 – 4 – 1 – 3.

“Absolutely, it is boom-time for cigars over here as well”. The expression “boom-time” means time of :

• A. alta velocidade
• B. grande exportação
• C. intensa repressão
• D. grandes negócios

As regards Passage 2, analyse the assertions below:

I. A critical orientation may include a transformative view.

II. Critical and transformative perspectives in ESOL are indistinguishable.

III. Transformative perspectives are wider than critical orientations.

Choose the correct answer:

• A. Only I is correct.
• B. Only II is correct.
• C. Only III is correct.
• D. Only I and II are correct.
• E. All three assertions are correct.

Passage 4 suggests that a transformative perspective to ESOL teacher education requires that teachers become more

• A. fluent in the target language.
• B. self-reflexive of their practice.
• C. resistant to challenging concepts.
• D. determined to fight against change.
• E. involved in raising funds for the school.

Check the correct alternative where the suffix “ing” of the verbs in bold doesn’t indicate infinitive:

• A. People are stopping smoking much earlier.
• B. They were officially protesting against the ban.
• C. In a country where owning a gun is a constitutional right…
• D. The occasional fine cigar is a good way of getting it.

According to Jordão (2013), critical pedagogy differs from structuralist pedagogies because, among other reasons, it

• A. aims at pre-set results.
• B. invests in memorization.
• C. promotes situated learning.
• D. measures proficiency levels.
• E. prioritizes content acquisition.

Critical literacy supporters tend to see the discourse of “the now ‘classic’ critical pedagogies of the 80s and 90s” (Jordão, 2013, p. 290) as being

• A. universally valid.
• B. disengaged from politics.
• C. indifferent to social concerns.
• D. insensitive to students’ voices
• E. imported from developed countries.