Questão 5111752

• Banca: IF-MT
• Órgão: IF-MT
• Ano: 2020
• Provas: IF-MT - 2020 - IF-MT - Professor do Ensino Básico, Técnico e Tecnológico - Português e Inglês
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

After Reading Hutauruk's extract (2015) about selecting vocabulary in ESP, choose the correct answer.

 Selecting vocabulary.

   The initial step in teaching ESP vocabulary is to determine which words and special terms in fact to teach. Gairns and Redman (pag.59) emphasize especially cultural reasons and the principles of need and level. Authors of teaching materials and teachers should take into account also the criteria of learnability and teachability. According to Harmer (pag.154), one of the most common principles of vocabulary selection is to teach at first concrete words and gradually abstract words. Words like chair, table, sofa and wardrobe are easily presented and explained, because students can see or imagine the real things which the words represent. On the contrary, abstract words like density, qualifications, safety are more difficult to explain. There is a number of words that are connected with the idea of furniture (chair, table, sofa and wardrobe). Words that have this kind of thematic relationship are said to belong to the same lexical field. The texts of practical part also contain the lexical field of tool-related words that partly overlap with furniture words (hammer, screwdriver and saw) as well as terminology connected with trees (hardwood and softwood). After selection words for teaching purpose it is also indispensable to decide what to teach about each naming unit. According to Harmer (pag.158) and Thornbury (pag.15), knowledge of a word involves knowing its: Meaning - meanings in context, sense of relation (synonyms/antonyms), Form - spelling and pronunciation, affixes, parts of speech, Grammar - plurals, countability, past simple/participle forms, Usage - collocations and appropriate register. (pag.20)

Hutauruk, Bertaria Sohnata. TEACHING MODULE for ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES . Pematangsiantar, 2015.

Hutauruk has based her discussion about selecting vocabulary in ESP on Harmer (1991), Gairns and Redman ( 1986) and Thornbury (2002). According to her,

• A. To choose the words or terms to be taught, teachers should take into account the cultural reasons and the principles of need and level, the criteria of learnability and teachability, teach at first concrete words and gradually abstract words, and decide what to teach about each naming unit. She concludes pointing that knowledge of a word involves knowing its meaning, form, grammar and usage.
• B. It is not simple to choose a word to be taught because teachers should take into account many things including cultural context where the word will be taught. So it is advised to choose a theme and prepare the grammar points that will help the students to grasp the language.
• C. To choose the words or terms to be taught, teachers only should take into account the cultural reasons and the principles of need and level.
• D. To choose the word to be taught, teachers should take into account only the criteria of learnability and teachability.
• E. To choose the words or terms to be taught, teachers should not take into account the cultural reasons and the principles of need and level, the criteria of learnability and teachability, teach at first concrete words and gradually abstract words, decide what to teach about each naming unit. She concludes pointing that knowledge of a word involves knowing its meaning, form, grammar and usage.

Gabarito: A