Read the text below and choose the best option which summarises it.

Perhaps the best way to begin our discussion is to describe how research on the influence of learner chararcteristics on second language learning has been carried out. When researchers are interested in finding out whether an individual factor such as motivation affects second language learning, they usually select a group of learners and give them a questionnaire to measure the type and degree of their motivation. The learners are then given a test to measure their second language proficiency. The test and the questionnaire are both scored and the researcher performs a correlation on the two measures, to see whether learners with high scores on the proficiency test are also more likely to have high scores on the motivation questionnaire. If this is the case, the researcher concludes that high levels of motivation are correlated with success in language learning. A similar procedure can be used to assess the relationship between intelligence and second language acquisition through the use of IQ tests.

Although this procedure seems straightforward, there are several difficulties with it. The first problem is that it is not possible to directly observe and measure qualities such as motivation, extroversion, or even intelligence. These are just labels for an entire range of behaviours and characteristics. Furthermore, because characteristics such as these are not independent, it will come as no surprise that different researchers have often used the same labels to describe different sets of behavioural traits.

(from Lightbown P.M. and Spada, N. How languages are learned. OUP. 1999/2008. p 51).

Indique a opção cujo texto está com a redação mais adequada à norma-padrão da língua portuguesa, considerando pontuação, vocabulário, concordância e regência.

Considering the sentences below when teaching/learning the productive skills:

I. One of the characteristic of a genuine communication is the information gap which exists between speaker/writer and listener/reader.

II. One of the characteristics of a communicative activity is the focus on content of the topic and not on the form.

III. One of the characteristics of a non-communicative activity is the focus on the linguistic form and not on the content.

IV. Another characteristic of a communicative activity is the desire to communicate by the people involved.

Is (are) correct

The sentence in bold type can be expressed differently. Which option is grammatically correct? A police investigation continued Thursday into a Catholic abuse scandal in Brazil, which erupted last week when a network aired a video that it showed a priest having sex with a 19-year-old boy. (adapted from CNN.com)

Assinale a opção que completa adequadamente as lacunas dos períodos seguintes.

I. “Para entender melhor alguns erros são tão frequentes, é preciso ter em mente fenômenos que vão além de regras estabelecidas.”

II. “Como e a economia brasileira irá crescer a um ritmo de 5% ao ano até 2020, num cenário inédito de desenvolvimento?”

III. “Primeiro, foi a CSN. Agora é a Camargo Corrêa que quer a portuguesa Cimpor. Saiba ela é tão cobiçada.”

IV. “Em Criação imperfeita, o físico Marcelo Gleiser explica jamais se chegará a uma teoria capaz de explicar tudo o que existe no universo – e nem mesmo faz sentido buscá-la.”

Read the rest of the article and pay attention to the sentence in bold. When you put it in the active voice, which option is the most correct?

The death of Isabella Nardoni in 2008 shocked Brazil, and the case has been the focus of intense media coverage.

Her father, Alexandre Nardoni, was sentenced to 31 years in prison by the São Paulo court. Her stepmother, Anna Carolina Jatoba, must serve 26 years.

The couple, who had denied the girl’s murder, will appeal, their lawyers say. Isabella was found in the communal garden below the apartment where Nardoni, his second wife and their two children lived in March 2008.

Nardoni, a lawyer, claimed that his daughter had been killed by an intruder while he was helping his wife bring the other children form their car, parked in a garage in the building’s basement.

But prosecutors argued that his wife had attacked Isabella in the car and then strangled her in the apartment.

A afirmação: “O Windows é um tipo de periférico de hardware utilizado em servidores”, está

Assinale a opção falsa quanto às informações referentes ao texto abaixo.

1 “Testa de ferro é o indivíduo que aparece como 3 responsável por um negócio, firma ou transação que os interessados reais controlam dissimuladamente, mantendo-se no anonimato. Em outras palavras, alguém que assume uma 5 posição nominal de liderança, mas não tem o poder efetivo.”

(Língua Portuguesa. 2010. p. 63)

Take the sentence: “although this procedure seems straightforward, there are several difficulties with it.” Which option best expresses the same meaning?

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