Questões de Concursos Públicos - Unesc - 2026 - Prefeitura de Meleiro - SC - Professor de Língua Inglesa - Edital nº 1 PSS

Weiner's Attribution Theory is pivotal in understanding students' motivation and their response to failure in the English classroom. According to this theory, the way learners explain the causes of their success or failure dimensions (locus of control, stability, and controllability) determines their future engagement. Select the alternative that identifies the specific attributional style that is most detrimental to language learning and leads to "Learned Helplessness".

Understanding "Ergative Verbs" allows students to master nuanced sentence structures in English. Select the alternative that correctly defines the syntactic and semantic behavior of an ergative verb.

Henry Giroux's concept of "Border Pedagogy" is essential for fostering critical citizenship in English Language Teaching (ELT). Regarding the implications of this concept for the English teacher, mark T for true and F for false statements: (__)Border Pedagogy encourages students to cross the metaphorical borders of their own cultural and epistemological territories, recognizing that knowledge and power are related and that their own identities are constructed within specific historical contexts. (__)The teacher's role is to act as a "border crosser," engaging with diverse cultural texts and enabling students to critically analyze the "codes" of the dominant culture while validating their own subordinate voices. (__)Border Pedagogy advocates for the reinforcement of rigid national borders and the exclusive teaching of the standard variety of English to ensure the preservation of linguistic purity and national identity. (__)It proposes that students should become "cultural tourists," observing other cultures passively without engaging in the political struggle over meaning or questioning the conditions of knowledge production. After analysis, choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence of the items above, from top to bottom: