Questões sobre Ensino da Língua Estrangeira Inglesa

A method is an application of an approach in the context of language teaching and, it differs from person to person.
Match the Method with its correct characteristics.
Column 1 Method 1. The audio-lingual method 2. The task- based learning 3. The Direct Method 4. The Grammar Translation Method
Column 2 Characteristics ( ) It involves thinking and speaking in English. The communication between the teacher and the student is strictly in English. ( ) This method is characterized by conventional drilling of set phrases which are used in daily communication, and grammatical rules are not emphasized. ( ) The main purpose of this Method is to learn a language in order to read its literature to benefit from mental discipline and intellectual improvement. ( ) It uses techniques to energize student cooperation in typical habitats- information gap exercises, role-play, group, and pair work.
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Like any other Latin American countries, Brazil is committed to promoting educational reforms that will make it possible for the nation to overcome significant disadvantages. With respect to Secondary Education in particular, two factors of a very different nature have determined the pressing need to revisit the overall guidelines and curriculum parameters that serve as implicit in the guidance to this level of education.
These two factors are:

Read the following paragraph:
“The communicative language teaching ........................................... which have attracted a great deal of interest in recent decades are the most recent manifestation of ..................................... that have appealed to the ................................of teachers for a very long time.”

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The Methodological History of Language Teaching describes some methods of learning and teaching English as a second language.
Match them to their characteristics.
Column 1 Methods 1. The Audiolingual Method. 2. The Direct Method. 3. The Grammar Translation Method. 4. The Silent Way
Column 2 Characteristics ( ) It’s used to teach a number of different languages not just English, and the main idea of this Method is that it only uses the target language that the students are trying to learn. ( ) It is based on a behaviorist theory that things are able to be learned by constant reinforcement. ( ) The main of this way of teaching is for the teacher to say very little, so students can take control of their learning. ( ) This method of teaching English is grammar heavy and relies a lot on translation.

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Related to the theme Methodologies and approaches to teaching a foreign language in Brazil, study these sentences and decide if they are ( T ) true or ( F ) false.
( ) Method is an overall plan for systematic presentation of language based upon a selected approach.
( ) The Method that is focused on grammatical rules is called the Direct Method.
( ) Communicative competence is the approach of Communicative Language Teaching.
( ) Language learning is usually based on learning styles and its focus is on the students’ motivation.
( ) The Audiolingual Method has its emphasis on the oral skills and on the exhaustive repetition of structural exercises.

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