Questão 3014716

• Banca: FGV
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Salvador - BA
• Ano: 2019
• Provas: FGV - 2019 - Prefeitura de Salvador - BA - Professor Língua Estrangeira - Inglês
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

TEXT I

Critical Literacy, EFL and Citizenship

We believe that a sense of active citizenship needs to be developed and schools have an important role in the process. If we agree that language is discourse, and that it is in discourse that we construct our meanings, then we may perceive the foreign language classrooms in our schools as an ideal space for discussing the procedures for ascribing meanings to the world. In a foreign language we learn different interpretive procedures, different ways to understand the world. If our foreign language teaching happens in a critical literacy perspective, then we also learn that such different ways to interpret reality are legitimized and valued according to socially and historically constructed criteria that can be collectively reproduced and accepted or questioned and changed. Hence our view of the EFL classroom, at least in Brazil, as an ideal space for the development of citizenship: the EFL classrooms can adopt a critical discursive view of reality that helps students see claims to truth as arbitrary, and power as a transitory force which, although being always present, is also in permanent change, in a movement that constantly allows for radical transformation. The EFL classroom can thus raise students’ perception of their role in the transformation of society, once it might provide them with a space where they are able to challenge their own views, to question where different perspectives (including those allegedly present in the texts) come from and where they lead to. By questioning their assumptions and those perceived in the texts, and in doing so also broadening their views, we claim students will be able to see themselves as critical subjects, capable of acting upon the world.

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We believe that there is nothing wrong with using the mother tongue in the foreign language classroom, since strictly speaking, the mother tongue is also foreign - it’s not “mine”, but “my mother’s”: it was therefore foreign as I first learned it and while I was learning to use its interpretive procedures. When using critical literacy in the teaching of foreign languages we assume that a great part of the discussions proposed in the FL class may happen in the mother tongue. Such discussions will bring meaning to the classroom, moving away from the notion that only simple ideas can be dealt with in the FL lesson because of the students’ lack of proficiency to produce deeper meanings and thoughts in the FL. Since the stress involved in trying to understand a foreign language is eased, students will be able to bring their “real” world to their English lessons and, by so doing, discussions in the mother tongue will help students learn English as a social practice of meaning-making.

(Source: Adapted from JORDÃO, C. M. & FOGAÇA, F. C. Critical Literacy in The English Language Classroom. DELTA, vol. 28, no 1, São Paulo, p. 69-84, 2012. Retrieved from http://www.scielo.br/pdf/delta/v28n1a04.pdf). 

The first word in the sentence “Hence our view of the EFL classroom, at least in Brazil, as an ideal space for the development of citizenship” indicates that the authors

• A. have criticized EFL classrooms in other countries.
• B. have considered how to go against current opinion.
• C. will offer an illustration of their previous argument.
• D. will introduce a quotation that contradicts their view.
• E. have just given a reason for what they are about to say.

Gabarito: E

Comentários

• HENCE = therefore, consequently.

• Pode substituí-lo por "Dessa forma". Assim, indica a razão do que será exposto.

• A questão cobra interpretação de um texto sobre alfabetização crítica e cidadania e também conhecimento sobre advérbios.
  
  Vamos analisar o enunciado:
  
  The first word in the sentence “Hence our view of the EFL classroom, at least in Brazil, as an ideal space for the development of citizenship" indicates that the authors...
  
  Tradução:A primeira palavra na frase “Daí a nossa visão da sala de aula de EFL, pelo menos no Brasil, como um espaço ideal para o desenvolvimento da cidadania" indica que os autores...
  
  A palavra HENCE é um advérbio que significa "daí, portanto, por essa razão". O fato de aparecer no início de uma sentença sinaliza que o autor está introduzindo uma razão, uma explicação para algo que acabou de ser mencionado. Um exemplo : Na minha família todos apreciam massas. Daí a escolha de comida italiana para a festa.
  
  Analisando as alternativas teremos:
  
  A) ERRADO - have criticized EFL classrooms in other countries. - a palavra HENCE não indica crítica.
  
  B) ERRADO - have considered how to go against current opinion. - essa consideração não está ligada à palavra HENCE.
  
  C) ERRADO - will offer an illustration of their previous argument. - a palavra HENCE não indica ilustração de argumento.
  
  D) ERRADO - will introduce a quotation that contradicts their view. - a palavra HENCE não introduz uma citação que contradiz a visão dos autores
  
  E) CORRETO - have just given a reason for what they are about to say. - a palavra HENCE precede uma razão conectando o que foi e o que será dito.
  
  Dica: sinônimos de HENCE: Therefore, for this reason.
  
  GABARITO DO PROFESSOR: ALTERNATIVA E
  

• HENCE (X), so (Y).

  The sentence is inverted, so that the conjunction HENCE, which mean, here, a cause and effect conjunction, introduces a situation just for give a reason for what they are about to say after that.