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Read the passage and answer the question.
    Numerous studies show that ____________________ as compared to working independently, results in deeper information processing and more meaningful psychological connections among the participants (Johnson, Johnson, and Smith 1998; Smith 1995). The goal of collaboration is to create new insights during discussions (Henry 1992; Kaye 1992) and to move students to an understanding of alternative perspectives (Cunningham 1992). The following general suggestions can help establish consistency in group work: 
•During a pre-collaboration period, make sure that students are motivated to participate. 
•Establish clear ground rules: everybody must participate, and all the ideas should be accommodate.
•Be available as... Ver mais

Text 3 

This method was widely used in the 1950s and 1960s, and the emphasis was not on the understanding of words, but rather on the acquisition of structures and patterns in common everyday dialogue. It gave students a lot of speaking practice by using habit-formation drills. Other characteristics of this method are:

•Theory of Behaviorism is in its base;
•Set phrases are memorized with a focus on intonation;
•Grammatical explanations are kept to a minimum;
•Vocabulary is taught in context;
•Audio-visual aids are used;
•Focus is on pronunciation.

The teaching method focused on in text 3 is called... Ver mais

The curriculum published by the Municipal Secretariat of Education, São Paulo (2019), sets new goals and directions for learning and provides guidance to those involved in education. Such goals are distributed into three cycles for Primary Education (Years 1 to 9), as listed below. Match these cycles to their pertinent goals:
1. Literacy Cycle 2. Interdisciplinary Cycle 3. Authoring Cycle
( ) Recognize instructions that indicate body movements (EF01LI09; p. 75); ( ) Recognize the difference between layouts of texts from various media, according to the context (EF07LI06, p.85); ( ) Recognize words in English looking at images in games such as bingo and tic-tac-toe (EF04LI10, p.80); ( ) Recognize narrative elements such as characters, plot, time and space in a group work situation... Ver mais

Read the following strategies for teaching English as an additional language to public school children:
1. Explain a word to the students drawing on the blackboard. Then ask them to copy the word and have them recite it out loud. 2. Ask students to look at pictures of two children and add to the speech bubbles what they think the characters might be saying to each other. 3. Create a mnemonic device in the students’ native language so that they memorize the grammar rules better. 4. Choose a video that shows how people in a specific country dress and behave and ask students to perform a parody of these characteristics. 5. Have students stand up and start by saying "Simon says, hands on head" while placing your hands on your head. The students who don’t imitate you correctly or are too ... Ver mais

Siqueira (2011) holds that to deal with the challenges of teaching a "deterritorialized" language like English, teachers should agree with the following suggestions, except: 

The global spread of English has seen the development of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), where users are defined as:

It has been argued that “Fostering a critical stance in very young readers can have surprising results, for both children and teachers” (BOURKE, Ryan T. First Graders and Fairy Tales: One Teacher's Action Research of Critical Literacy. The Reading Teacher 62 (4), 2008, 304-312, p. 304). 
This quotation is in line with the following goals for the teaching of English defined by the Municipal Secretariat of Education, São Paulo (2019), except:

Read the statements below and choose the alternative that is in line with Duboc (2016) as regards language assessment:
1. Punishment is replaced by the understanding of the reasons of certain performances in order to improve students' learning as well as the teacher's choices; 2. The act of evaluating is more collaborative, mediated, more public, and more horizontal; 3. Formal moments of assessment are most desirable rather than more informal ones, such as self-evaluation.
(translated from DUBOC 2016, pp.57-80.)

Based on the text, mark the statements below as TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).
( ) The new literacy studies have kept away from the homogeneous assessment provided by earlier approaches. ( ) Teachers can find it hard to engage in new literacy practices as they have not been educated in this direction. ( ) Instability and collaboration are essential to structuralist approaches to language teaching.
The statements are, respectively: 

Analise as afirmativas a seguir e assinale a alternativa correta em referência à estratégia de leitura skimming.
I. É um modo de leitura rápida. É usado para obter uma rápida impressão geral da ideia central do texto. Durante a aplicação desse modo de leitura, o professor controla o tempo que os alunos usam para ler o texto. Um dos objetivos dessa modalidade é evitar que os alunos usem o dicionário para traduzir todas as palavras que não conhecem. II. É uma técnica/estratégia de leitura não-linear para encontrar uma informação específica, ignorarmos quaisquer outros detalhes do texto, portanto, não é preciso lê-lo como um todo, mas ser seletivo, sem se ater a detalhes. III. Tem como objetivo fazer com que o leitor esteja atento às informações específicas. O uso dessa técnica/estratég... Ver mais