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4283627 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Pedagogia
Banca: UFRGS
Orgão: IF-SC
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Schools have a social function in contributing to citizenship education, meaning that ready-made methodologies cannot address the complex reality of basic education. Graham Crookes (2013) explains that while there is no single recipe for teaching, specific principles can help teachers develop strategies to promote a critical, democratic, and emancipatory perspective in the additional language classroom.
Associate the key concepts from Critical Pedagogy listed in the first column with their respective descriptions in the second column. 

(1) Context
(2) Negotiated Curriculum
(3) Dialogue
(4) Students’ Reality

( ) The educational practice of bringing elements of the learners’ daily lives and lived experiences into the classroom, ensuring that they find personal meaning and can establish active connections with what they are learning.
( ) The pedagogical understanding of who the learners are, including the specific social backgrounds and environments they are embedded in both inside and outside school, which is fundamental for planning and developing lessons.
( ) The practice of knowledge construction in which speaking and listening are exercised by both teachers and students to understand different perspectives, expand their worldviews, and foster critical reflection through non-hierarchical relations.
( ) The process through which educational content is not established in advance or in isolation from the class, but is instead co-constructed, discussed, and balanced in collaboration with the learners during the educational journey. 

Choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence from top to bottom.
 

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4283626 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Pedagogia
Banca: UFRGS
Orgão: IF-SC
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From a sociocultural perspective (Vygotsky, 1978), human cognition is a dynamic phenomenon that originates in social activity and is deeply situated in physical and social contexts. Within this framework, learning an additional language is not viewed as the simple internalization of grammatical rules transmitted from the outside into the learner’s mind. Instead, it is conceived as an interpsychological phenomenon before it can become intrapsychological. In other words, intersubjectivity must necessarily precede intrasubjectivity in the language learning process.

Considering this sociocultural approach to language acquisition, choose the alternative that correctly characterizes how students learn English in the classroom.
 

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4283625 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Pedagogia
Banca: UFRGS
Orgão: IF-SC
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Teaching a foreign language involves providing students with interpretative procedures for meaning-making and distinct world perceptions, regardless of their level of proficiency. Within this framework, the teacher acts as an intercultural mediator, encouraging students to critically reflect on how cultures and identities are socially constructed within unequal power structures.

Considering the concept of intercultural mediation, choose the alternative that presents a pedagogical practice aligned with this critical perspective.
 

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4283624 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Pedagogia
Banca: UFRGS
Orgão: IF-SC
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According to Vygotsky (1987), conceptual development relies on the dialectical integration between scientific concepts (formal school instruction) and everyday concepts (informal social interaction). Therefore, teaching language rules in isolation does not lead to development; instead, formal knowledge must connect to students’ empirical experiences and real-world applications. Analyze the three statements below regarding how language learners develop and integrate scientific and everyday concepts in the classroom.

I - Scientific concepts are not learned through mere words or rote memory; rather, their genuine assimilation by the student depends on their convergence with everyday concepts, which provide real-world meaning to formal structures.
II - Language instruction that isolates scientific concepts from the student’s reality leads to mechanical learning and empty verbalism, producing abstract knowledge that the student is usually unable to apply or connect to real-world situations.
III - Language teaching that relies on everyday concepts allows students to easily transfer their linguistic knowledge to new, unexperienced contexts, as spontaneous learning automatically grants conscious and voluntary control over abstract grammatical rules.

Which statements are aligned with Vygotsky’s view?
 

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4283623 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Pedagogia
Banca: UFRGS
Orgão: IF-SC
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According to Rajagopalan (2009), up to three-quarters of global English users are non-native speakers. Therefore, pedagogical practices must reject the "native speaker myth" and the pursuit of a "perfect pronunciation" - concepts that reinforce unequal power relations. Instead, additional-language classrooms should value multiple linguistic varieties, prioritizing intelligibility, identity, and the negotiation of meaning.

Considering pedagogical practices aimed at valuing different linguistic varieties in the classroom, choose the alternative that presents an activity aligned with this perspective.
 

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4283622 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: UFRGS
Orgão: IF-SC
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[…] One of the things we need to do in English

language education is grasp the entanglements of

English (Pennycook, 2021; 2022b). If we want to

understand the role, spread and position of English in

the world, and our role as language educators in relation

to this, we need ways to think about how English (or

any language) is interwoven with social, cultural,

material and political relations. […]

One of the real difficulties is coming to grips with

the complexities at stake here. […] Leya Mathew

(2022) sheds light on the desperate cycle of hope,

desire, disappointment and inequality with which

English is involved in southern India. Disenfranchised,

lower-caste women want access to English for their

children, which they see as a means for social mobility

for the next generation. Those who already have such

access advise against this, promoting first language

education. As we know, promotion of first-language

education for those who feel that their upward mobility

may depend on English is always a fraught argument,

and the poor may spurn education in the first language,

instead finding themselves paying for poor quality rote

English that may not provide the ticket to change that

is hoped for. Thus, the hegemonic role of English in a

post-colonial context like India is constantly reproduced,

and the agents of this reproduction may be impoverished

women as much as wealthier men. English for these

mothers becomes, at least in their eyes, a tool for

emancipation from class and caste-based segregation

and subjugation, and yet, English language education

and policies also serve to maintain these inequalities.

As English language educators, we have to grasp

these complexities, and understand all these local

instantiations of English. This is not about local varieties

of English nor about one hegemonic role for English but

rather a complexity of entangled relations. It is into

these spaces that we teach.

(Adapted from: PENNYCOOK, A.; SILVESTRE, V. P. V.; PESSOA, R. R. Reflections on Critical Applied Linguistics and Decoloniality: a follow-up conversation with Alastair Pennycook. Calidoscópio, São Leopoldo, v. 20, n. 2, p. 568–569, 2022. DOI: 10.4013/cld.2022.202.12.

“These spaces” (l. 37) in “It is into these spaces that we teach” (l. 36-37) refers to
 

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Questão presente nas seguintes provas
4283621 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: UFRGS
Orgão: IF-SC
Provas:

[…] One of the things we need to do in English

language education is grasp the entanglements of

English (Pennycook, 2021; 2022b). If we want to

understand the role, spread and position of English in

the world, and our role as language educators in relation

to this, we need ways to think about how English (or

any language) is interwoven with social, cultural,

material and political relations. […]

One of the real difficulties is coming to grips with

the complexities at stake here. […] Leya Mathew

(2022) sheds light on the desperate cycle of hope,

desire, disappointment and inequality with which

English is involved in southern India. Disenfranchised,

lower-caste women want access to English for their

children, which they see as a means for social mobility

for the next generation. Those who already have such

access advise against this, promoting first language

education. As we know, promotion of first-language

education for those who feel that their upward mobility

may depend on English is always a fraught argument,

and the poor may spurn education in the first language,

instead finding themselves paying for poor quality rote

English that may not provide the ticket to change that

is hoped for. Thus, the hegemonic role of English in a

post-colonial context like India is constantly reproduced,

and the agents of this reproduction may be impoverished

women as much as wealthier men. English for these

mothers becomes, at least in their eyes, a tool for

emancipation from class and caste-based segregation

and subjugation, and yet, English language education

and policies also serve to maintain these inequalities.

As English language educators, we have to grasp

these complexities, and understand all these local

instantiations of English. This is not about local varieties

of English nor about one hegemonic role for English but

rather a complexity of entangled relations. It is into

these spaces that we teach.

(Adapted from: PENNYCOOK, A.; SILVESTRE, V. P. V.; PESSOA, R. R. Reflections on Critical Applied Linguistics and Decoloniality: a follow-up conversation with Alastair Pennycook. Calidoscópio, São Leopoldo, v. 20, n. 2, p. 568–569, 2022. DOI: 10.4013/cld.2022.202.12.

Pennycook’s description of the entanglements of English is best explained by which of the following concepts?
 

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Questão presente nas seguintes provas
4283620 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: UFRGS
Orgão: IF-SC
Provas:

[…] One of the things we need to do in English

language education is grasp the entanglements of

English (Pennycook, 2021; 2022b). If we want to

understand the role, spread and position of English in

the world, and our role as language educators in relation

to this, we need ways to think about how English (or

any language) is interwoven with social, cultural,

material and political relations. […]

One of the real difficulties is coming to grips with

the complexities at stake here. […] Leya Mathew

(2022) sheds light on the desperate cycle of hope,

desire, disappointment and inequality with which

English is involved in southern India. Disenfranchised,

lower-caste women want access to English for their

children, which they see as a means for social mobility

for the next generation. Those who already have such

access advise against this, promoting first language

education. As we know, promotion of first-language

education for those who feel that their upward mobility

may depend on English is always a fraught argument,

and the poor may spurn education in the first language,

instead finding themselves paying for poor quality rote

English that may not provide the ticket to change that

is hoped for. Thus, the hegemonic role of English in a

post-colonial context like India is constantly reproduced,

and the agents of this reproduction may be impoverished

women as much as wealthier men. English for these

mothers becomes, at least in their eyes, a tool for

emancipation from class and caste-based segregation

and subjugation, and yet, English language education

and policies also serve to maintain these inequalities.

As English language educators, we have to grasp

these complexities, and understand all these local

instantiations of English. This is not about local varieties

of English nor about one hegemonic role for English but

rather a complexity of entangled relations. It is into

these spaces that we teach.

(Adapted from: PENNYCOOK, A.; SILVESTRE, V. P. V.; PESSOA, R. R. Reflections on Critical Applied Linguistics and Decoloniality: a follow-up conversation with Alastair Pennycook. Calidoscópio, São Leopoldo, v. 20, n. 2, p. 568–569, 2022. DOI: 10.4013/cld.2022.202.12.

In the southern Indian context mentioned by Pennycook, English is
 

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Questão presente nas seguintes provas
4283619 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: UFRGS
Orgão: IF-SC
Provas:

[…] One of the things we need to do in English

language education is grasp the entanglements of

English (Pennycook, 2021; 2022b). If we want to

understand the role, spread and position of English in

the world, and our role as language educators in relation

to this, we need ways to think about how English (or

any language) is interwoven with social, cultural,

material and political relations. […]

One of the real difficulties is coming to grips with

the complexities at stake here. […] Leya Mathew

(2022) sheds light on the desperate cycle of hope,

desire, disappointment and inequality with which

English is involved in southern India. Disenfranchised,

lower-caste women want access to English for their

children, which they see as a means for social mobility

for the next generation. Those who already have such

access advise against this, promoting first language

education. As we know, promotion of first-language

education for those who feel that their upward mobility

may depend on English is always a fraught argument,

and the poor may spurn education in the first language,

instead finding themselves paying for poor quality rote

English that may not provide the ticket to change that

is hoped for. Thus, the hegemonic role of English in a

post-colonial context like India is constantly reproduced,

and the agents of this reproduction may be impoverished

women as much as wealthier men. English for these

mothers becomes, at least in their eyes, a tool for

emancipation from class and caste-based segregation

and subjugation, and yet, English language education

and policies also serve to maintain these inequalities.

As English language educators, we have to grasp

these complexities, and understand all these local

instantiations of English. This is not about local varieties

of English nor about one hegemonic role for English but

rather a complexity of entangled relations. It is into

these spaces that we teach.

(Adapted from: PENNYCOOK, A.; SILVESTRE, V. P. V.; PESSOA, R. R. Reflections on Critical Applied Linguistics and Decoloniality: a follow-up conversation with Alastair Pennycook. Calidoscópio, São Leopoldo, v. 20, n. 2, p. 568–569, 2022. DOI: 10.4013/cld.2022.202.12.

Pennycook’s main argument is that
 

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4283618 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Pedagogia
Banca: UFRGS
Orgão: IF-SC
Provas:
Match each English as an Additional Language (EAL) methodology/approach with its corresponding description.

( ) Communicative Language Teaching
( ) Audio-Lingual
( ) Grammar-Translation Method
( ) Critical Pedagogy in EAL
( ) The Direct Method 

a. Bans the use of the student’s native language, and focuses on teaching vocabulary and concepts directly through visuals, context, and demonstration rather than translation.
b. Based on behavioral psychology (conditioning). It views language learning as habit formation. Correct verbal habits are reinforced, and mistakes are corrected immediately to prevent bad habits.
c. Examines how language intersects with power, identity, and social justice. It encourages learners to critically analyze socio-political issues and use English to challenge inequality.
d. Prioritizes meaningful interaction, real-world communication, and fluency over grammatical perfection. Classrooms rely heavily on role-playing and authentic materials.
e. Focuses heavily on the explicit study of grammatical rules, vocabulary memorization, and translating literary texts between the native language and English.

Which sequence is correct from top to bottom?
 

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