Foram encontradas 269 questões.
According to Brown (2004), a language test should be designed under five major principles: practicality, realiability, validity, authenticity and washback.
Concerning these principles, check if the following statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).
( ) A test is reliable when it is consistent and presents clear directions for scoring.
( ) A practical test does not consider time and effort needed for designing and scoring.
( ) Validity is the most complex criterion of an effective test, but not the most important one.
( ) An authentic test presents language as natural as possible, in contextualized items.
( ) A good washback is more summative than formative, influencing how teachers teach.
Choose the alternative that shows CORRECTLY if the statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F) from top to bottom:
Provas
Among many ideas and techniques for foreign language teaching, Harmer (2007, p.48) presents five methods that continue to have a significant impact nowadays: Grammar Translation; Audio-lingualism; PresentationPractice-Production (PPP); Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and Task-Based Learning (TBL).
Correlate each method with its main purpose:
1. Grammar Translation
2. Audio-lingualism
3. Presentation-Practice-Production (PPP)
4. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
5. Task-Based Learning (TBL)
( ) Students analyze the language they used to perform real-life activities and work on any imperfections that have arisen.
( ) This method is widely used around the world for teaching simple language at lower levels.
( ) The focus is on teaching about language, not on providing opportunities to activate language knowledge.
( ) This method emphasizes grammatical patterns with behaviorist theories of learning.
( ) One of its principles is that language is not just patterns of grammar, but it also involves language functions.
Choose the alternative that CORRECTLY correlates each method with its main purpose from top to bottom
Provas
Brown (2001, p.45) presents a comparison between Audiolingual and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) methods for teaching English as Foreign Language.
Choose the alternative in which the statement DOES NOT correspond to a Communicative Language Teaching characteristic:
Provas
“(…) the best known model of second language acquisition influenced by Chomsky"s theory of first language acquisition is Stephen Krashen"s (1982) Monitor Model.”(LIGHTBOWN and SPADA, 2013, p. 106). This model has five hypotheses:
1. Acquisition/learning hypothesis
2. Monitor hypothesis
3. Natural order hypothesis
4. Comprehensible input hypothesis
5. Affective filter hypothesis
A. Second language acquisition occurs in predictable sequences, not necessarily considering easiest rules.
B. Second language is acquired when we are exposed to samples of language with no attention to form; and learned when we pay conscious attention to form and rules.
C. A large amount of intelligible input does not necessarily guarantee successful language acquisition.
D. Acquisition occurs when comprehensible language is given and also an amount of language a step beyond the language level already acquired.
E. Language rules and patterns already learned work as an editor for further learning, when student has plenty of time.
Choose the alternative that CORRECTLY correlates each hypothesis to its description:
Provas
Lightbown and Spada (2013, p.108) present three main cognitive perspectives for second language acquisition and learning: information processing, usage-based learning and the competition model.
Considering these cognitive perspectives, it is INCORRECT to state that:
Provas
“Vygotsky"s theory assumes that cognitive development, including language development, arises as a result of social interactions.”(LIGHTBOWN and SPADA, 2013, p. 118).
Considering the sociocultural perspective in second language learning, read the following statements and check if they are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F):
( ) This perspective believes knowledge is internalized during social activity through mediation.
( ) In Vygotskyan theory, learning occurs through social interaction and in “real world” settings.
( ) Thinking and speaking are related, but considered independent processes of mediation.
( ) Learners co-construct knowledge based only on their interaction with an interlocutor.
( ) Interaction hampers the cognitive processes when the learner accesses linguistic input.
Choose the alternative that shows CORRECTLY if the statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F) from top to bottom:
Provas
Read the text and answer the questions 26-32.
1 ______________ The Future of Education According to Generation Z
2 This isn’t his mother’s first-grade class. My son is 7 years old and attends a public school in Oak
3 Park, Ill., just outside Chicago. He reads ahead of most of his classmates, so he accesses a specialized
4 online curriculum instead of the standard printed book. He uses a mobile device to compete in math
5 games with kids all over the world. Much of his homework involves picking a subject he’s interested in,
6 investigating it __ his own and then reporting __ in a classroom discussion.
7 Although my son’s college education will likely be unrecognizable, we can speculate __ changes
8 that will take place __ the next 10 to 15 years. The two main trends rapidly picking __ steam are online
9 learning and vocational training.
10 Online Learning
11 In recent years, we’ve witnessed the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are
12 online classes aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs consist of a variety
13 of materials, from video lectures and assigned readings to quizzes and interactive user forums for
14 instructors, students and teaching assistants. The current technology, however, requires some tweaks.
15 “MOOCs are not working that well because people only take one class at a time and then don’t
16 finish it because it isn’t compelling,” says Erica Orange, executive vice president of New York business
17 consultancy The Future Hunters and a member of DeVry University’s Career Advisory Board. “The next
18 generation of MOOCs will be sensorily immersive, leveraging virtual reality to put students in the world
19 they’re studying. Instead of having to memorize facts about the Civil War, for example, a student in a
20 future MOOC will be on the battlefield.”
21 New modes of online learning will cater more effectively to Generation Z - or those students born
22 after the mid 1990s. “The oldest Gen Z-ers have been forced into an industrial model of school, and we
23 are seeing all these attention problems,” Orange says. “Their brains are wired differently and actually
24 function better with input from a variety of sources.”
25 Vocational Training
26 As we approach mid-century, proof of education will be more about the skills you’ve acquired
27 rather than the degree you have. “The costs of traditional college keep increasing, so many will price out
28 and take a technological shortcut,” Orange says.
29 Vocational training has gotten a bad rap for decades, but it’s on the verge of a major makeover.
30 “We’re now calling it competency-based education, which focuses on the mastery of work-related skills
31 rather than command of a particular academic discipline,” Orange says. She cites the examples of
32 coding boot camps devoted to fast-tracking software developers, as well as longer programs including P-
33 Tech, IBM’s six-year vocational high school where students zero in on essential STEM skills and leave
34 with an associate’s degree and a priority path to an IBM position.
35 Venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs are getting in on the action too, providing
36 mentorship and funding for young people’s promising business ideas. “Paypal co-founder and serial
37 entrepreneur Peter Thiel is at the forefront of these educational incubators,” Orange says. “In 2010, he
38 created the Thiel Fellowship, awarding $100,000 to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them
39 to drop out of college and create their own ventures. The Thiel Foundation then launched Breakout Labs,
40 a grantmaking program that funds radical and innovative scientific research.”
41 In the late 20th century, jobs without a future were disparagingly called “blue collar.” This
42 economy, though, needs actual human bodies to do the jobs that machines can’t yet master. For this
43 reason, Orange says, wage growth is accelerating in industries such as manufacturing, mining, logging
44 and transport, and the unemployment rate for high-school graduates is falling faster than for college
45 graduates.
46 After listening to influential companies clamor for more recruits with practical skills, the U.S.
47 government boosted vocational education funding to $1.1 billion.
48 If you talk to teenage Generation Z-ers, you hear that most intend to attend traditional college, but
49 it’s as much (if not more) for the social benefits and networking connections as it is for the skills. Many
50 know what they want to do and already have the means to do it. I wonder if things will come full circle,
51 and like his great-grandfather, my son will choose and train for his first career by the time he’s 16.
52 Source: LEVIT, Alexandra. Time. Retrieved from on Feb. 09, 2018.
Consider the examples of pronoun usage in the text: “his mother"s first-grade class” (l. 02); “we can speculate” (l. 07); “Their brains are wired differently” (l. 23); “We"re now calling it” (l. 30); “In 2010, he created the Thiel Fellowship” (l. 37- 38). What do the underlined pronouns refer to?
Provas
Read the text and answer the questions 26-32.
1 ______________ The Future of Education According to Generation Z
2 This isn’t his mother’s first-grade class. My son is 7 years old and attends a public school in Oak
3 Park, Ill., just outside Chicago. He reads ahead of most of his classmates, so he accesses a specialized
4 online curriculum instead of the standard printed book. He uses a mobile device to compete in math
5 games with kids all over the world. Much of his homework involves picking a subject he’s interested in,
6 investigating it __ his own and then reporting __ in a classroom discussion.
7 Although my son’s college education will likely be unrecognizable, we can speculate __ changes
8 that will take place __ the next 10 to 15 years. The two main trends rapidly picking __ steam are online
9 learning and vocational training.
10 Online Learning
11 In recent years, we’ve witnessed the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are
12 online classes aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs consist of a variety
13 of materials, from video lectures and assigned readings to quizzes and interactive user forums for
14 instructors, students and teaching assistants. The current technology, however, requires some tweaks.
15 “MOOCs are not working that well because people only take one class at a time and then don’t
16 finish it because it isn’t compelling,” says Erica Orange, executive vice president of New York business
17 consultancy The Future Hunters and a member of DeVry University’s Career Advisory Board. “The next
18 generation of MOOCs will be sensorily immersive, leveraging virtual reality to put students in the world
19 they’re studying. Instead of having to memorize facts about the Civil War, for example, a student in a
20 future MOOC will be on the battlefield.”
21 New modes of online learning will cater more effectively to Generation Z - or those students born
22 after the mid 1990s. “The oldest Gen Z-ers have been forced into an industrial model of school, and we
23 are seeing all these attention problems,” Orange says. “Their brains are wired differently and actually
24 function better with input from a variety of sources.”
25 Vocational Training
26 As we approach mid-century, proof of education will be more about the skills you’ve acquired
27 rather than the degree you have. “The costs of traditional college keep increasing, so many will price out
28 and take a technological shortcut,” Orange says.
29 Vocational training has gotten a bad rap for decades, but it’s on the verge of a major makeover.
30 “We’re now calling it competency-based education, which focuses on the mastery of work-related skills
31 rather than command of a particular academic discipline,” Orange says. She cites the examples of
32 coding boot camps devoted to fast-tracking software developers, as well as longer programs including P-
33 Tech, IBM’s six-year vocational high school where students zero in on essential STEM skills and leave
34 with an associate’s degree and a priority path to an IBM position.
35 Venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs are getting in on the action too, providing
36 mentorship and funding for young people’s promising business ideas. “Paypal co-founder and serial
37 entrepreneur Peter Thiel is at the forefront of these educational incubators,” Orange says. “In 2010, he
38 created the Thiel Fellowship, awarding $100,000 to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them
39 to drop out of college and create their own ventures. The Thiel Foundation then launched Breakout Labs,
40 a grantmaking program that funds radical and innovative scientific research.”
41 In the late 20th century, jobs without a future were disparagingly called “blue collar.” This
42 economy, though, needs actual human bodies to do the jobs that machines can’t yet master. For this
43 reason, Orange says, wage growth is accelerating in industries such as manufacturing, mining, logging
44 and transport, and the unemployment rate for high-school graduates is falling faster than for college
45 graduates.
46 After listening to influential companies clamor for more recruits with practical skills, the U.S.
47 government boosted vocational education funding to $1.1 billion.
48 If you talk to teenage Generation Z-ers, you hear that most intend to attend traditional college, but
49 it’s as much (if not more) for the social benefits and networking connections as it is for the skills. Many
50 know what they want to do and already have the means to do it. I wonder if things will come full circle,
51 and like his great-grandfather, my son will choose and train for his first career by the time he’s 16.
52 Source: LEVIT, Alexandra. Time. Retrieved from on Feb. 09, 2018.
The ending -ed of regular verbs in the simple past tense may be pronounced in three different ways. Which group below has the same pronunciation of the -ed as in “witnessed” (l. 11) in all of its words?
Provas
Read the text and answer the questions 26-32.
1 ______________ The Future of Education According to Generation Z
2 This isn’t his mother’s first-grade class. My son is 7 years old and attends a public school in Oak
3 Park, Ill., just outside Chicago. He reads ahead of most of his classmates, so he accesses a specialized
4 online curriculum instead of the standard printed book. He uses a mobile device to compete in math
5 games with kids all over the world. Much of his homework involves picking a subject he’s interested in,
6 investigating it __ his own and then reporting __ in a classroom discussion.
7 Although my son’s college education will likely be unrecognizable, we can speculate __ changes
8 that will take place __ the next 10 to 15 years. The two main trends rapidly picking __ steam are online
9 learning and vocational training.
10 Online Learning
11 In recent years, we’ve witnessed the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are
12 online classes aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs consist of a variety
13 of materials, from video lectures and assigned readings to quizzes and interactive user forums for
14 instructors, students and teaching assistants. The current technology, however, requires some tweaks.
15 “MOOCs are not working that well because people only take one class at a time and then don’t
16 finish it because it isn’t compelling,” says Erica Orange, executive vice president of New York business
17 consultancy The Future Hunters and a member of DeVry University’s Career Advisory Board. “The next
18 generation of MOOCs will be sensorily immersive, leveraging virtual reality to put students in the world
19 they’re studying. Instead of having to memorize facts about the Civil War, for example, a student in a
20 future MOOC will be on the battlefield.”
21 New modes of online learning will cater more effectively to Generation Z - or those students born
22 after the mid 1990s. “The oldest Gen Z-ers have been forced into an industrial model of school, and we
23 are seeing all these attention problems,” Orange says. “Their brains are wired differently and actually
24 function better with input from a variety of sources.”
25 Vocational Training
26 As we approach mid-century, proof of education will be more about the skills you’ve acquired
27 rather than the degree you have. “The costs of traditional college keep increasing, so many will price out
28 and take a technological shortcut,” Orange says.
29 Vocational training has gotten a bad rap for decades, but it’s on the verge of a major makeover.
30 “We’re now calling it competency-based education, which focuses on the mastery of work-related skills
31 rather than command of a particular academic discipline,” Orange says. She cites the examples of
32 coding boot camps devoted to fast-tracking software developers, as well as longer programs including P-
33 Tech, IBM’s six-year vocational high school where students zero in on essential STEM skills and leave
34 with an associate’s degree and a priority path to an IBM position.
35 Venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs are getting in on the action too, providing
36 mentorship and funding for young people’s promising business ideas. “Paypal co-founder and serial
37 entrepreneur Peter Thiel is at the forefront of these educational incubators,” Orange says. “In 2010, he
38 created the Thiel Fellowship, awarding $100,000 to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them
39 to drop out of college and create their own ventures. The Thiel Foundation then launched Breakout Labs,
40 a grantmaking program that funds radical and innovative scientific research.”
41 In the late 20th century, jobs without a future were disparagingly called “blue collar.” This
42 economy, though, needs actual human bodies to do the jobs that machines can’t yet master. For this
43 reason, Orange says, wage growth is accelerating in industries such as manufacturing, mining, logging
44 and transport, and the unemployment rate for high-school graduates is falling faster than for college
45 graduates.
46 After listening to influential companies clamor for more recruits with practical skills, the U.S.
47 government boosted vocational education funding to $1.1 billion.
48 If you talk to teenage Generation Z-ers, you hear that most intend to attend traditional college, but
49 it’s as much (if not more) for the social benefits and networking connections as it is for the skills. Many
50 know what they want to do and already have the means to do it. I wonder if things will come full circle,
51 and like his great-grandfather, my son will choose and train for his first career by the time he’s 16.
52 Source: LEVIT, Alexandra. Time. Retrieved from on Feb. 09, 2018.
Consider the use of active and passive voice in the excerpts below:
I. Although my son’s college education will likely be unrecognizable (…) (l. 7)
II. Proof of education will be more about the skills you’ve acquired (…) (l. 26)
III. The oldest Gen Z-ers have been forced into an industrial model of school… (l. 22)
IV. Their brains are wired differently… (l. 23)
V. In the late 20th century, jobs without a future were disparagingly called “blue collar.” (l. 41)
Provas
Read the text and answer the questions 26-32.
1 ______________ The Future of Education According to Generation Z
2 This isn’t his mother’s first-grade class. My son is 7 years old and attends a public school in Oak
3 Park, Ill., just outside Chicago. He reads ahead of most of his classmates, so he accesses a specialized
4 online curriculum instead of the standard printed book. He uses a mobile device to compete in math
5 games with kids all over the world. Much of his homework involves picking a subject he’s interested in,
6 investigating it __ his own and then reporting __ in a classroom discussion.
7 Although my son’s college education will likely be unrecognizable, we can speculate __ changes
8 that will take place __ the next 10 to 15 years. The two main trends rapidly picking __ steam are online
9 learning and vocational training.
10 Online Learning
11 In recent years, we’ve witnessed the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are
12 online classes aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs consist of a variety
13 of materials, from video lectures and assigned readings to quizzes and interactive user forums for
14 instructors, students and teaching assistants. The current technology, however, requires some tweaks.
15 “MOOCs are not working that well because people only take one class at a time and then don’t
16 finish it because it isn’t compelling,” says Erica Orange, executive vice president of New York business
17 consultancy The Future Hunters and a member of DeVry University’s Career Advisory Board. “The next
18 generation of MOOCs will be sensorily immersive, leveraging virtual reality to put students in the world
19 they’re studying. Instead of having to memorize facts about the Civil War, for example, a student in a
20 future MOOC will be on the battlefield.”
21 New modes of online learning will cater more effectively to Generation Z - or those students born
22 after the mid 1990s. “The oldest Gen Z-ers have been forced into an industrial model of school, and we
23 are seeing all these attention problems,” Orange says. “Their brains are wired differently and actually
24 function better with input from a variety of sources.”
25 Vocational Training
26 As we approach mid-century, proof of education will be more about the skills you’ve acquired
27 rather than the degree you have. “The costs of traditional college keep increasing, so many will price out
28 and take a technological shortcut,” Orange says.
29 Vocational training has gotten a bad rap for decades, but it’s on the verge of a major makeover.
30 “We’re now calling it competency-based education, which focuses on the mastery of work-related skills
31 rather than command of a particular academic discipline,” Orange says. She cites the examples of
32 coding boot camps devoted to fast-tracking software developers, as well as longer programs including P-
33 Tech, IBM’s six-year vocational high school where students zero in on essential STEM skills and leave
34 with an associate’s degree and a priority path to an IBM position.
35 Venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs are getting in on the action too, providing
36 mentorship and funding for young people’s promising business ideas. “Paypal co-founder and serial
37 entrepreneur Peter Thiel is at the forefront of these educational incubators,” Orange says. “In 2010, he
38 created the Thiel Fellowship, awarding $100,000 to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them
39 to drop out of college and create their own ventures. The Thiel Foundation then launched Breakout Labs,
40 a grantmaking program that funds radical and innovative scientific research.”
41 In the late 20th century, jobs without a future were disparagingly called “blue collar.” This
42 economy, though, needs actual human bodies to do the jobs that machines can’t yet master. For this
43 reason, Orange says, wage growth is accelerating in industries such as manufacturing, mining, logging
44 and transport, and the unemployment rate for high-school graduates is falling faster than for college
45 graduates.
46 After listening to influential companies clamor for more recruits with practical skills, the U.S.
47 government boosted vocational education funding to $1.1 billion.
48 If you talk to teenage Generation Z-ers, you hear that most intend to attend traditional college, but
49 it’s as much (if not more) for the social benefits and networking connections as it is for the skills. Many
50 know what they want to do and already have the means to do it. I wonder if things will come full circle,
51 and like his great-grandfather, my son will choose and train for his first career by the time he’s 16.
52 Source: LEVIT, Alexandra. Time. Retrieved from on Feb. 09, 2018.
Consider the statements below:
I. Towards the end of the article, the author implies that college education will probably remain as relevant to the market needs as it has been.
II. One can infer from the text that, because American economy is driven by businesses, entrepreneurs take full responsibility for encouraging vocational training among students, so the government does not need to intervene.
III. The increase of interest in competency-based education is related to both market needs and to the increasing costs of higher education in the U.S.
Provas
Caderno Container