The teaching course in ESP (English for Specific Purpose)can be defined as

Bottom-up and Top-down strategies are among the principles for designing interactive reading. Choose the correct affirmative:

An overall rhetorical shape of a genre can give useful indication of a textual genre movement and/or organization.

The figure below is a table with frequencies of selected items in Research Papers (RP), based on sections from its overall rhetorical shape: introduction, methods, results and discussion.

Considering the information and the table one can say that

“The trouble with words is that most of them have got more than one meaning – they’re ambiguous. We can see this straight if we look in the dictionary. Most of the entries give more than one meaning to a word” (CRISTAL, D. 2010, p. 37).

The word “trouble” in the following extract is related to o

Nowadays it is assumed that English teaching should rely on a trend toward skill integration. There are the least five models of integrated skill approaches listed below. Match the APPROACH to the corresponding DESCRIPTION.

APPROACHES

1. Content based teaching

2. Theme-based teaching

3. Experimental learning

4. Episode hypothesis

5. Task-based teaching

DESCRIPTIONS

A. can serve the multiple interests of students in a classroom and can offer a focus on content while still adhering to institutional needs for offering a language course.

B. presents language in form of sentences that are interconnected in an interest-provoking episode.

C. gives students concrete experiences through which they “discover” language principles.

D. specifies what a learner needs to do with the English language in terms of target tasks that require communicative language.

E. integrates the learning of some specific subject-matter content with the learning of a second language.

Choose the CORRECT option:

The human race has fashioned two forms of productive and two forms of receptive performances. They are, respectively,

Academic writing is a wide term for a range of approaches and types of practice for it. Some authors seem to agree that all different approaches can be subsumed under two umbrella terms: product approach and process approach.

In Product Approach attention is given to

Read the two ESL teaching approach/methodology references.

“[This approach] is believed to foster process of negotiation, modification, rephrasing and experimentation that are at the heart of second language learning” (RICHARDS & RODGERS, 2001, p. 228).

“By engaging in meaning activities such as problem solving, discussions or narratives, the learner’s interlanguage system is stretched and encouraged to develop” (FOSTER, 1999, p. 69).

Both quotations are related to

Read the statements below.Choose the order of a reading class under the paradigm of interrelated skills:

1. A focus on a reading strategy, such as scanning or skimming, for instance.

2. A pre-reading discussion.

3. Writing a paraphrase of a section of the text.

4. Listening to a series of informative statements about the topic of a passage to be read.

The correct order is:

Choose the alternative that describes characteristics regarding to teaching English based on Task-based Approach