Questões comentadas de Concursos para Professor EBTT Área 05: Letras Inglês

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All teachers have a theory of how teaching assists learning. Teachers may base their teaching on intuitive notions of what works rather than on explicit principles of how they can best promote learning in their students (Celse-Murcia, 2013). Rod Ellis wrote 12 principles of instructed language acquisition to help teachers ___________ their own __________.
The words that complete the sentence correctly are:

  • A evaluate - teaching
  • B organize - life
  • C dominate - teaching
  • D explicit - life

English is used as an intranational and international language, rather than as a native language only (B.B. Kachur, 1985). The author’s well known representation of three concentric circles of English is the following:



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The expanding circle is related to

  • A countries and regions where English is the native language of the majority of the population.
  • B countries where English is a dominant foreign language used in limited domains but is beginning to become or has become a lingua franca.
  • C countries where English has had a long history of use and where local L2 varieties have developed and become codified through extensive use.
  • D countries where English is a dominant language for reading and writing for the majority of the population.

Listening skills are acquired abilities that enable a person to listen without great deal of deliberate effort or conscious planning.

Listening strategies are ways of _________ that are _________ and consciously _________ to improve _________ and _________ as well as cope with listening _________.

The words that complete the sentence correctly, from left to right, are

  • A hearing - planned - adapted - comprehension - difficulties -communication
  • B hearing - observed - better - communication - comprehension - difficulties
  • C listening - planned - adopted - comprehension - communication - difficulties
  • D listening - spontaneous - adopted – difficulties - comprehension - communication

The correct sequence of True and False statements, concerning H. D. Brown (2007) concrete principles for teaching speaking skills, from top to bottom, is:

( ) Focusing on both fluency and accuracy. ( ) Providing intrinsically motivating techniques. ( ) Providing appropriate feedback and correction. ( ) Giving students the opportunities to initiate oral communication.

  • A F - T - T - F.
  • B T - T - T - T.
  • C T - F - F - T.
  • D F - T - F - T.

“After students read a text, going back to highlight vocabulary, look at various literacy techniques the author used (as a model for writing) and notice how grammatical structures were used for various purposes can serve as important steps in developing language competence.” (CELSE-MURCIA, 2013).
When teaching L2 literacy, there are many benefits to teaching reading and writing together.
It is possible to establish that the statement above corresponds to

  • A writing for themselves.
  • B writing as a response to reading.
  • C bringing together oral language, reading and writing.
  • D reading as a model for writing.