Questões de Concursos Públicos - Colégio Pedro II

Choose the alternative best related to what Kumaravadivelu suggests about post‐method teachers:

Considering the expression “can ill afford” in the excerpt […] “Language teachers can ill afford to ignore […]” (first lines of the text), we can say that language teachers

The author van Dijk suggests that for the analysis of the relations between discourse and power, access to specific forms of discourse is itself a power resource. Which of the following statements best relates to this premise?

A cohesive text is created in many different ways. Halliday and Hasan (1976) identify five general categories of cohesive devices that create coherence in texts. The sentence below introduces prominently one of those categories. Which is it? “[…] professors control scholarly discourse, teachers educational discourse, journalists media discourse, and politicians policy and other public political discourse.” (§ 2)

Select the expression that CANNOT be considered a synonym for spell out in “[…] and it is one of the tasks of CDA to spell out these forms of power.” (lines 12, 13)

Choose the alternative with the same meaning of as in “[…] communication is an important ‘symbolic’ resource, as is the case for knowledge and information (van Dijk 1996).” (§ 1) is:

Identify the illocutionary force of the professor's utterance below: Professor to Undergraduates during a class at the university: “How's that paper doing? It's due on Monday.” (Adapted from: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/dravling/illocutionary.html. Accessed on October 24, 2014.)

Within a “broader understanding” of the concept of assessment, teachers should reflect upon their practice taking some questions into account. Which of the four questions below SHOULD NOT be a priority for assessment concerned with effective instruction?

In the sentence “Traditionally, it was regarded as the ability to select, design and evaluate tests and assessment procedures, as well as to score and grade them on the basis of theoretical knowledge” (§ 1), examples of ________________ can be identified. Choose the word that best completes the blank:

Match the descriptions that apply to summative, formative or diagnostic assessment. Note that more than one description can apply to one type of assessment. I. It can help the teacher to identify students' current knowledge of a subject. II. It provides feedback and information during the instructional process. III. It takes place when learning has been completed and provides information and feedback that sum up the teaching and learning process. IV. It is typically given to students at the end of a set point.