According to Christine Goh (In: RENANDYA & WIDODO, 2016), speaking activities that foster real communication among learners can be divided into three broad categories: communication-gap tasks, discussion tasks, and monologic tasks. With this idea in mind, read the following statements:

I. Communication-gap tasks can take various forms, often involving missing information or details that one student must describe, narrate, or explain to their partner.
II. In discussion tasks, learners are expected to present their ideas individually to either one listener or an audience of listeners. Students may also speak extensively on a topic without interruptions.
III. Monologic tasks are interactive activities in which learners exchange ideas, opinions, or inf... Ver mais

According to Lawrence Zhang (In: RENANDYA & WIDODO, 2016), three key factors influence the success of reading: (1) the features of the text, (2) the traits of the reader, and (3) the social context. This applies to both first and second language contexts. With this information in mind, mark T for True statements and F for False ones.

( ) Text characteristic is an important variable which affects the reading process. Narrative and expository texts, for example, have very similar organizational structures and linguistic features.
( ) Different readers engage with the same text in varied ways due to their unique individual traits. Given these diverse factors, teachers should consider such differences when creating lesson plans for reading activities.
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Studies on Needs Analysis have been conducted to investigate the needs of various learner groups in academic, professional, occupational, and survival contexts. In terms of teaching, needs analysis serves several distinct functions.
Which of the following is NOT a purpose of Needs Analysis?

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Chapelle and Sauro (2017) argue that technologies play a crucial role in second language teaching and learning.

Using technology in teaching English as a foreign language is beneficial because

Which of the following statements about teaching grammar in EFL using technology is INCORRECT?

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    Disappointment with both grammar-translation and audiolingual methods for their inability to prepare learners for the interpretation, expression, and negotiation of meaning, along with enthusiasm for an array of alternative methods increasingly labeled communicative, has resulted in no small amount of uncertainty as to what are and are not essential features of CLT. Thus, this summary description would be incomplete without brief mention of what CLT is not.

   

     CLT is not exclusively concerned with face-to-face ... Ver mais

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    Disappointment with both grammar-translation and audiolingual methods for their inability to prepare learners for the interpretation, expression, and negotiation of meaning, along with enthusiasm for an array of alternative methods increasingly labeled communicative, has resulted in no small amount of uncertainty as to what are and are not essential features of CLT. Thus, this summary description would be incomplete without brief mention of what CLT is not.

   

     CLT is not exclusively concerned with face-to-face ... Ver mais

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    Two concepts – acquisition and learning – play key roles in the study of language. Although there are people who use the two terms interchangeably, in reality they embody two different processes in the development of communicative competence. Language acquisition is an intuitive and subconscious process, similar to that of children when they develop their mother tongue – natural, incidental, and often unconscious. Language learning, by contrast, is a conscious process that involves studying rules and structures.

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The Brazilian Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) says English is a global language, which allows access to multiple uses and functions in the contemporary times. As one of the possible uses is access to science, it is important to connect the teaching of English with the concept of scientific literacy, addressed by the BNCC as the ability to comprehend, interpret and apply scientific knowledge to make informed decisions and act critically and ethically in society. Analyze the statements below about scientific literacy and mark T, if true, or F, if false.

( ) It involves the ability to evaluate critically scientific information. ( ) It requires advanced knowledge of applied sciences. ( ) It includes understanding the scientific method, such as formulating and tes... Ver mais