Research on the advantages of group work has NOT identified it as beneficial to
According to Prabhu (1987, p. 25), “observations such as these led in due course to a
clear preference: classroom activities which involved learners in some form of reasoning,
or inferring or inter-relating information in a logical way”.
From these observations emerged a pattern to class procedures which included
According to Prabhu (1987) meaning-focused activities ensure that any attention to form is
“... provide opportunities for learners to participate in open-ended meaningful interaction
through language learning tasks, assuming that a preoccupation with meaning making will
ultimately lead to L2 mastery”.
(Kumaravadivelu 1994, p. 29).
To achieve such goal a teacher should introduce
“The linguists and applied linguists who had such a profound influence on the development
of several varieties of communicative language teaching (CLT) were dissatisfied with
pedagogical approaches which treated language a set of morpho-syntactic rules rather
than as a richer system of communication involving many kinds of competence other than
purely syntactic”
(Lightbown 2000, p. 435)
As developers of CLT, these linguists and applied linguists wanted to
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Ten are the principles that teachers should follow in instructed second language
acquisition (Ellis 2008). One of such principles stated that “instruction needs to ensure that
learners focus predominantly on meaning”.
According to Ellis (2008), perhaps the best way to achieve such principle is to teach
following a ___________ approach.
The term “needs analysis” refers to the
Quanto à compreensão textual é importante trabalhá-la
A sala de aula virtual aumenta “as oportunidades de interação real e consequentemente
aumentam-se o input e as oportunidades de aquisição do idioma.”
(Paiva 2001, p. 272).
Entre as consequências que advém dessas oportunidades, NÃO se inclui
Em relação às aulas tradicionais, a administração de um curso virtual mostra-se mais
Sequências linguísticas ou sequências de enunciados constituem tipos textuais. São tipos textuais, EXCETO:
Concerning the pronunciation of words in English, it is INCORRECT to state that words such as
Speaking strategies for developing strategic competence is something that “few beginning
students are aware of… your classroom can be one in which students become aware of,
and have the chance to practice, such strategies”
(Brown 2007, p. 276).
The CORRECT correspondence between speaking strategies and example is
Prabhu (1987) defined task as “an activity which required learners to arrive at an outcome
from given information through some process of thought, and which allowed teachers to
control and regulate that process” (p.24).
An evidence of beginner learners’ development as a consequence of task-based
instruction is that
Meaning-focused activities DO NOT involve learners in
