In the assessment of writing skills, the six general categories for the evaluation of student writing are
According to Prabhu (1987), meaning-focused activities can be of three types.
___________ is NOT one of them.
About the role of comprehension in the development of an internal grammar, it is INCORRECT to state that comprehension
Analise o texto a seguir.
A multiprocess system (also known as multitasking
system) is one that executes many processes concurrently
(simultaneously or in interleved fashion). In a uniprocess
system, when the lone process executes a wait operation, the
processor would sit idle and waste its time until the process
comes out of the wait state. The objective of multiprocessing
is to have a process running on the processor at all times,
doing purposeful work.
(Sibsankar Haldar, Alex Alagarsamy. Operating Systems.
Pearson Education India, 2010)
De acordo com o texto, é correto afirmar que
Nuttall (2005) states that understanding a text involves understanding different kinds of
meaning at the same time, and that there are at least four levels of meanings: conceptual,
propositional, contextual, and pragmatic meaning.
Consider the information provided below according to its correctness, and choose the
CORRECT alternative.
I. Concepts, or notions, can be found at any level. Every lexical item embodies a
concept, sometimes simple, sometimes complex.
II. Propositional meaning is the same as signification or plain sense. It is the meaning a
clause or sentence can have even if it is not being used in a context, but it is just
standing on its own.
III. Pragmatic meaning is easily distinguished from contextual meaning, because it
represents the meaning a sentence has only as part of the interaction between writer
and reader.
Concerning reading and reading comprehension, it's CORRECT to state that:
Regarding the interpretation of discourse markers in ESP, analyze the information
provided below and choose the CORRECT alternative.
I. Then, first, at once are signals of the sequence of events.
II. To resume, that is to say, for example are signals of discourse organization.
III. In this respect, in that connection, concerning this are signals of the writer's point of
view.
Here you have a partial view of a tree that represents some of the common divisions made
in English Language Teaching as it was provided by Hutchinson & Waters (1987).
In this representation, the ESP branch divides itself into three other branches making it
possible to distinguish ESP courses by the general nature of the learner's specialism. One
of these three large categories is:
After having conducted needs analysis, the ESP teacher has to decide which classroom
activities are most suitable for the language learners
Based on the text, judge the following items.
The terms 3G and 4G are continuously employed to attract customers.
Based on the text, judge the following items.
The term “hard–to–reach" (l.33) is an adverb which means incomprehensible.
Based on the text, judge the following items.
The terms 3G and 4G are continuously employed to attract
customers.
Based on the text, judge the following items.
In line 4, the term “clear–cut" gives the reader information
about “answer".
This text refers to items from 27 to 31.
Under our feet, cables carry data between our homes,
offices and data centers at a pace that can match the speed of light.
The data travels as light that runs through strings made of materials
like glass and plastic.
Researchers at the University of Maryland want to do away
with the cable altogether and just use air to guide the light. That's
not as simple as it sounds, because a laser sent through air will
spread apart and interact with particles, gradually losing its intensity
over time.
The research team instead caused patches of air to mimic
a fiber optic cable by creating tubes of dense air surrounded by
low–density air. In a fiber optic cable, a laser travels through a
string of glass. When it tries to leave the glass, it hits a wall that
reflects it back into the center, guiding it along the length of the
cable. The cable made of air works in the same way.
“It's like you could just take a physical optical fiber and
unreel it at the speed of light, put it next to this thing that you want
to measure remotely, and then have the signal come all the way
back to where you are," University of Maryland team lead Howard
Milchberg said in a release.
Signals that traveled through the air cable were 1.5 times
stronger than when they were sent through plain air. The team was
able to send them over a distance of three feet and is now interested
in pushing the range to 150 feet.
If the University of Maryland team succeeds, the air cables
could be used for communication in remote locations on Earth
where laying fiber optic cables is extremely difficult, or places
where it actually is impossible like space. NASA is already
experimenting with laser communication between the International
Space Station and Earth. The technique could also be used to probe
the Earth to make topographic maps or examine the chemicals
present in hard–to–reach places like the atmosphere or a nuclear
plant.
S. Brewster. Making optical cables out of air could boost
communication in space. Internet:
According to the text, air cables
are being tested by NASA.
Questions 31 through 33 refer to the following text.
The IRS Chief Counsel is appointed by the President of
the United States, with the advice and consent of the U.S.
Senate, and serves as the chief legal advisor to the IRS
Commissioner on all matters pertaining to the interpretation,
administration, and enforcement of the Internal Revenue
Code, as well as all other legal matters. Under the IRS
Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, the Chief Counsel
reports to both the IRS Commissioner and the Treasury
General Counsel.
Attorneys in the Chief Counsel's Office serve as lawyers for
the IRS. They provide the IRS and taxpayers with guidance
on interpreting Federal tax laws correctly, represent the
IRS in litigation, and provide all other legal support required
to carry out the IRS mission.
Chief Counsel received 95,929 cases and closed
94,323 cases during fiscal year 2012. Of the new cases
received, and cases closed, the majority related to tax law
enforcement and litigation, including Tax Court litigation;
collection, bankruptcy, and summons advice and litigation;
Appellate Court litigation; criminal tax; and enforcement
advice and assistance.
In Fiscal Year 2012, Chief Counsel received 31,295
Tax Court cases involving taxpayers contesting an IRS
determination that they owed additional tax. The total
amount of tax and penalty in dispute at the end of the fiscal
year was almost $6.6 billion.
(Source: Internal Revenue Service Data Book, 2012.)
As described in the text, the mission of attorneys working in the Chief Counsel's Office includes:
