CESGRANRIO 2011 • Inglês • SEAD-RN • Questão 31 • Professor

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CESGRANRIO 2011 • SEAD-RN • Professor de Inglês
📖 Reading & Interpretation | 31. Reading Comprehension (Explicit Information • Paraphrasing) | 50. Digital Technologies in ELT
Text I
The on-line magazine ELTNEWS interviews Catherine Walter and Michael Swan, co-authors of several books and courses designed to teach English as a Foreign Language

         ELTNEWS
         How has the ELT (English Language Teaching) scene changed since you started in the profession?
         Catherine
         [5] Mostly in terms of the materials available, I think. When I began teaching, classroom materials were thin on the ground, and creating materials for classes took up a lot more of teachers’ time than it does now. This gives today’s teachers a great start - they can [10] see lots of examples of good practice and look at how to build on it. In fact, in many cases, good materials have led professional developments. For example, the growth of interest in learner independence would not have taken off as it has without the excellent [15] self-study books, CDs, readers and so on that are available today. […]
         Michael
         Things have changed enormously. […] Textbooks were pretty unattractive. Applied Linguistics was in [20] its infancy. The buzz-words from the research front were ‘structural syllabus’, ‘audio-visual’ and ‘language laboratory’. Professional associations scarcely existed. All this has changed, mostly for the better. There is excellent professional training. We have a [25] wealth of good textbooks. Applied Linguistics is a long-established and productive field of research. We are supported by several very professional professional associations. Language teaching now has so many components that it’s difficult to list them all.
         [30] One thing that worries me, though, is that language itself (especially grammar and pronunciation) has tended to disappear from language teaching, at least in the UK-based orthodoxy of the last twenty years. Learning a foreign language centrally involves learning [35] the key structures, phonology and vocabulary of that language, and no amount of activity-based fluency practice can compensate if that is neglected.
         ELTNEWS
         How should one respond to a teacher who says [40] that fluency in English is more important than knowing the rules?
         Michael
         Boots might be more important than socks, but most people find it useful to have both. Fluency and [45] accuracy are not alternatives - students need to be fluent in reasonably good English, not in a highly deviant interlanguage. And knowledge of rules can help with this. We believe that, in ways that are not completely understood, declarative knowledge can [50] often aid the development of procedural knowledge - so that knowing some grammar rules can help some students to learn English. […] Unpopular as it may have been recently, practice of forms is important for the development of fluency in a foreign language. We [55] seem to accept that if musicians are good they must have practiced scales. We also know that learner drivers have to practice coordinating the different pedals, but there is a certain resistance to language learners’ needing to practice forms.
         ELTNEWS
         [60] Dictionaries are being made available over the Internet and students can now practice their English from a variety of interactive English-learning Web sites. What role can technology play in the teaching [65] and study of foreign languages?
         Catherine
         Anything that can make practice of forms more attractive will help learners to develop fluency more readily. Some people are more willing to spend [70] time on a game-like activity on a computer than in a classroom; for these people, technology can be a real boom. 
         As interactive sites get more sophisticated, it should be possible for individual learners to take [75] the path that suits them towards mastery of forms - perhaps not the same path for each form or each learner. […]
         ELTNEWS
         What has been your greatest satisfaction from [80] working in the ELT industry?
         Catherine
         Can I have two? One would be the pleasure of putting people in touch with one another: teachers from Russia with teachers from the UK; people [85] teaching refugees from Ethiopia in Israel with people teaching East Asian refugees in Thailand; the Literacy Strategy team of the UK’s Department for Education and Employment with EFL grammar experts. 
         And the other would be the buzz that I get when a [90] teacher comes up after a presentation and says “I’ve been teaching for a long time. But I really learned how to teach from the teacher’s books to your courses.” We put a lot of time and effort into those teacher’s books, trying to think carefully how to make them [95] useful to teachers in different situations, and I think it has made a small difference to the profession.
         Michael
         And three for me. Firstly, the fascination of working with language, such a complex cognition [100] that is exclusively human. Secondly, the privilege of being able to work with and for so many different kinds of people, with such multifarious and endlessly engaging ways of thinking and being. And thirdly, the satisfaction that comes from building bridges between [105] people – and from finding ways of helping people to succeed in the most defying of all enterprises: learning to communicate well in a foreign language.

🔗 Texto adaptado de:
Available at: http://www.eltnews com/features/interviews/2001/06/interview_with_michael_swan_an.html. Retrieved on: 27 Oct. 2011.

According to Catherine Walter, the role of technology in foreign language learning

A

can aid a lot, but on an individual basis, because not everyone likes to deal with computers.

B

can replace the teacher by raising the pattern of the exercises and their speed, if it is sophisticated enough.

C

can turn unattractive games into fun activities.

D

is the best way to develop fluency, for every learner.

E

is the only way people can practice forms.

📊 Revisão da questão
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Questão 31 • Gabarito: (A)
Enunciado:

According to Catherine Walter, the role of technology in foreign language learning

(A) can aid a lot, but on an individual basis, because not everyone likes to deal with computers.
(B) can replace the teacher by raising the pattern of the exercises and their speed, if it is sophisticated enough.
(C) can turn unattractive games into fun activities.
(D) is the best way to develop fluency, for every learner.
(E) is the only way people can practice forms.
🔎 Leitura Orientada
A questão avalia a competência de 📖 Reading & Interpretation, especificamente a taxonomia de 31. Reading Comprehension (Explicit Information • Paraphrasing). A moldura temática está indexada sob o macrotema de conteúdo 50. Digital Technologies in ELT, exigindo do candidato a identificação de evidências textuais e a reconstrução por paráfrase das condições e limitações atribuídas por Catherine Walter ao uso da tecnologia. O comando baseia-se nos gatilhos linguísticos de delimitação "for these people" e "individual learners". O candidato precisa reconhecer que, embora a tecnologia possua alto potencial de auxílio, sua eficácia depende estritamente da adequação aos perfis, caminhos individuais e preferências de cada aprendiz de língua.

Para chancelar a inferência legítima e validar o gabarito oficial, confronta-se o construto avaliado com a dedução contextual correta:
[Technology Potential] + [Individual Learners Path] ➔ [On an individual basis / Not for everyone] ➔ Option A
A Engine de distratores atua por meio de extrapolações temáticas e extremismos semânticos perigosos: introduz uma falsa ideia de substituição do professor (B), desloca e altera o sentido original das analogias com jogos (C), universaliza erroneamente o benefício para todos os estudantes de forma indistinta (D) ou restringe a prática de formas exclusivamente à via tecnológica (E).
🟢 GABARITO VERDÃO: (A)
A alternativa (A) é o gabarito oficial. Catherine Walter pontua nas linhas 68-77 que o uso de ferramentas tecnológicas atende a determinados perfis ("for these people") e permite que aprendizes individuais sigam o caminho que melhor lhes convém ("individual learners to take the path that suits them"). A banca constrói a alternativa correta ao parafrasear essa limitação como uma aplicação que ocorre "on an individual basis", respeitando o fato de que nem todos possuem afinidade com computadores.
🧠 Regra B3GE™ • Régua das 7 Inteligências Cognitivas:

01. Comando (Command): Identificar a visão precisa de Catherine Walter em relação ao impacto e papel da tecnologia no aprendizado de línguas.
02. Gatilho (Trigger): Rastrear os termos restritivos e direcionadores "for these people" e "individual learners" nas passagens do texto.
03. Operação (Operation): Validar a correspondência semântica exata entre a necessidade de caminhos sob medida e a expressão "on an individual basis".
04. Evidência (Evidence): Mapear o bloco das linhas 68-77, isolando a tese de que a tecnologia é uma excelente alternativa condicional, e não universal.
05. Discriminação (Discrimination): Rejeitar a falsa premissa de demissão do professor (B), o desvio sobre jogos (C) e as armadilhas absolutas de totalidade (D e E).
06. Validação (Validation): Ratificar que a combinação de alto valor de auxílio com restrição de preferência pessoal espelha cirurgicamente o argumento da autora.
07. Decisão (Decision): Marcar com convicção analítica e precisão metodológica a alternativa A com base nos escudos do protocolo B3GE™.
📝 Análise das alternativas (Mapeamento de Restrições Sintático-Regenciais)
(A) 🟢 GABARITO VERDÃO
Tipo B3GE: 31. Paráfrase Contextual (Item Correto)
Reconstrói com maestria as entrelinhas e as condicionais impostas por Walter. Une o reconhecimento do poder de auxílio tecnológico à exigência factual de respeito à individualidade e ritmos heterogêneos dos estudantes.
(B) ❌ REJEITADA
Tipo B3GE: 01. Fora do Escopo
Apóia-se em um clichê alarmista de farsa pedagógica ao falar em substituir o professor ("replace the teacher"). Embora o texto de fato faça menção à sofisticação crescente dos sistemas, a demissão do docente jamais foi sugerida por Walter.
(C) ❌ REJEITADA
Tipo B3GE: 11. Deslocamento Semântico (Distorção de Sentido)
Altera radicalmente a engrenagem lógica montada no texto. Torce a ideia de atividades lúdicas e atraentes para desenhar uma narrativa artificial de jogos originalmente chatos ou feios que magicamente virariam diversão.
(D) ❌ REJEITADA
Tipo B3GE: 02. Generalização Excessiva (Distorção de Escopo)
Derruba os muros de contenção explícitos erguidos pela autora. Ao cravar que a tecnologia é a melhor rota para absolutamente todo tipo de aprendiz ("for every learner"), peca por universalizar um benefício que o texto restringe.
(E) ❌ REJEITADA
Tipo B3GE: 05. Declaração Absoluta / Extremismo Semântico
Sofre de miopia interpretativa por radicalismo vocabular. Ao asseverar que a via digital é a única forma ("the only way") possível de se fixar as estruturas gramaticais, destrói as demais alternativas legítimas propostas no corpo do texto.
🧠 Resumo B3GE™ Master
A análise de temas ligados à modernização pedagógica e tecnologia na Cesgranrio requer a ativação imediata dos escudos analíticos B3GE™:

O Filtro da Quebra de Radicalismos Semânticos (⚖️): Textos acadêmicos sérios e bem estruturados raramente adotam visões messiânicas absolutas. Desconfie com veemência e descarte de pronto alternativas que tragam palavras de ordem totalitária como only, every, never ou always em questões de compreensão textual.
O Filtro do Meio-Termo Pedagógico (🚫): O viés ideológico de bancas tradicionais como a Cesgranrio valoriza a tecnologia como ferramenta de apoio, mas rejeita terminantemente visões distópicas de substituição da figura do professor ou aniquilação da sala de aula presencial.
O Filtro do Mapeamento de Condicionantes (🔎): Sempre que o autor introduzir expressões que segmentam o público (como "para essas pessoas", "para alguns alunos"), o item correto obrigatoriamente terá que respeitar essa fronteira, traduzindo-a por meio de paráfrases elegantes como on an individual basis.
🏛️ Classificação B3GE™ Final
SILO 2 (Competência): 📖 Reading & Interpretation
Taxonomia Core: 31. Reading Comprehension (Explicit Information • Paraphrasing)
SILO 3 (Macrotema): 50. Digital Technologies in ELT
Subtema Técnico: Identificação de evidências textuais e reconstrução por paráfrase das condições e limitações atribuídas por Catherine Walter ao uso da tecnologia na aprendizagem de línguas.