lt is often a delicate decision as to how to provide learners with feedback on their errors when their attention is primarily focused on the content of what they are saying, rather than on the way they are saying it. Interrupting learners ‘in full flight’ to give them corrections seems to run counter to the need to let them experience autonomy. If the teacher is constantly intervening to assist their performance, whether by providing unknown words or correcting their errors, they can hardly be said to be self-regulating. And it may have the counterproductive effect of inhibiting fluency by forcing learners’ attention on to accuracy. Nevertheless, many teachers feel uncomfortable about ‘letting errors go’, even in fluency activities, and there is support for the view that maintaining a focus on form – that is, on formal accuracy – is good for learners in the long run. lt is important, therefore, that such a focus should be effected at minimal cost to the speaker’s sense of being in control. What is agreed is that in cases of correction of oral fluency, the teacher’s corrections, while explicit, are unobtrusive, and these are picked up by the learners with no real loss of fluency: ln the above extract, the teacher's interventions should be economical and effective, and the conversational flow should not threatened. However, it could be argued that such overt monitoring deprives the learners of opportunities to take more responsibility for their own monitoring and selfrepair. This is especially the case with regard to their mistakes, as opposed to their errors. By mistake is meant the learners’ momentary failure to apply what they already know, due mainly to the demands of online processing. An error, on the other hand, represents a gap in the speaker’s knowledge of the system. Mistakes can usually be self-corrected, but errors cannot. A deft hint to the learner that they have used a present verb form instead of a past one, for example, may be all that is needed to encourage selfcorrection. And self-correction, even if prompted by the teacher, is one step nearer self-regulation and the ultimate goal of full autonomy. Sometimes, however, the learner’s message is simply unintelligible, and some kind of more obtrusive intervention is necessary to repair the breakdown. ln this case, an intervention that is perceived by the learner as repair is likely to be less inhibiting than one that is perceived of as correction. Repair is facilitative, while correction can be construed negatively, as judgmental. In repairing, the teacher's intervention takes the form of a conversational repair, one that is consistent with the meaning-orientation of the interaction

THORNBURY, Scott. How to Teach Speaking. Cambridge: Longman, 2005, pp. 91-2. (Adapted).

One of the main problems when dealing with oral fluency is to know if a student should be corrected when interacting or after it. After reading this passage about feedback and correction in fluency, select the alternative that agrees with the point of view discussed in the passage.

In the book titled Literacies by Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope, the authors mention the roles of teachers and students facing the challenges of reading in a technological environment. According to the authors, “Communication is rapidly changing. With the rise of new technologies and media, the way we make and transmit meaning is shifting significantly”. For this reason the profile of students have changed considerably from passive actors in the reading and interpreting information to more active meaning-makers, considering the various forms of access to information. New media environment “focuses not only on reading and writing, but also on other modes of communication, including oral, visual, audio, gestural and spatial”.

Below you will find a list of actions related to reading and interpreting texts both in the new and old environments. Read the actions and decide which action relates to which kind of environment. Then choose the correct alternative that corresponds to the right choice.

1. Appreciating texts of prestige ‘literary’ value must be the rule for right interpretation.

2. Innovations, risk-taking and diversity in meaning-making are aspects to be regarded by teachers.

3. It must be considered that a wide and diverse range of texts exists and should be valued.

4. Reading means decoding messages transmitted by written texts.

5. Teaching students to read means dealing solely with canonic British and American production.

6. The fundamentals of literacy should be understanding messages beyond messages.

7. The many social languages and variations in communication must be considered.

8. There are multiple forms of reading a word in multimodal communication.

9. Understanding and using correct spelling and grammar is good communication.

10. We should read only standard, educated English used in homogeneous situations.

KALANTZIS, Mary; COPE, Bill. Literacies. Melbourne: CUP, 2012, p.19. (Adapted).

Even if a foreign language student is an able decoder in English, the level of effort required to read for meaning in real time academic situations can be a monumental task. Look how author Richard Rodriguez (1982) describes his own reading in English as a new language: “Most books, of course, I barely understood. While reading Plato’s Republic, I needed to keep looking at the book jacket to remind myself what the text was about”. One might ask how Rodriguez could be reading a book at such an advanced level in English but still not reading with comprehension. How could he read and yet not read? And what is it that makes reading in a new language so overwhelming? Perhaps part of the answer can be found in the less extensive listening vocabulary upon which foreign language students can draw when reading written words, they have never seen before. Part of it may result from incomplete knowledge of the syntax and grammar patterns of English. When we struggle with sentences in a new language, reading takes a great deal of cognitive energy. As a result, retaining the gist of the previous sentences in a paragraph or of previous paragraphs in working memory is hard to do as we move through a text. Even when decoding is no longer very effortful, it is still much harder to move along through a text and construct meaning from it as we read in a new language. We might describe this as a real-time “delay”, which has to do with discursive practices. When the rate of processing discursive meaning from text can’t “catch up” with the rate of our decoding, the result may be the strange phenomenon of decoding but not comprehending, as lamented by Richard Rodriguez above.

LEMS, Kristin; MILLER, Leah D.; SORO, Tenema M. Teaching Reading to English Language Learners. Insights from Linguistics. New York and London: 2010, pp. 171-2. (Adapted).

The excerpt discusses what the author calls ‘real-time delay’ in English as a foreign language students’ reading ability. After reading this passage, choose the best alternative that may define this real-time delay.

1._______________ familiar with diverse research methods in social sciences.

2._______________ speech acts associated with racist ideologies in different sociolinguistic situations and samples, including films, news, music, daily interactions and textbooks.

3._______________ through some samples of cultural and sociolinguistic contexts such as academia to identify stigmatized markers of racist cultural linguistic materiality.

4._______________ that antiracist fight is possible through reflecting, relating, comparing and contrasting different perspectives.

5._______________ on their own linguistic awareness development and agency throughout the course.

MAGRO, José L. Language and Antiracism. An Antiracist Approach to Teaching Language in the USA. Jackson: Multilingual Matters, 2023. (Adapted).

The items mentioned have to do with the outcomes of a foreign language class of which objective is to teach L2 language viewing antiracist practices. The verbs “become”; “identify”; “go”; “demonstrate”; “reflect”, have been extracted from the items. After reading the topics, choose the alternative that presents the verbs that fit the items, respectively.

CHAPTER 2

Adult Literacy and Popular Libraries

To speak of adult literacy and popular libraries is to speak of the problems of reading and writing: not reading and writing words in and of themselves, as if the reading and writing of words did not imply another reading, anterior to and simultaneous with the first, the reading itself. The critical comprehension of literacy, which involves the equally critical comprehension of reading, demands the critical comprehension of reading, demands the critical comprehension of the library. However, upon speaking of a critical vision, authenticated in a practice of the same critical form of literacy, I not only recognize but also emphasize the existence of a contrary practice, an understanding that, in an essay published a long time ago, I called naive.

It would be tiresome to insist on points referred to on other occasions when I discussed the problems of literacy. Nevertheless, at the risk of repeating myself, I will try to clarify or reclarify what I call the critical practice and understanding of literacy, as opposed to the naive and so-called “astute” practice and understanding. The naive and astute, while identical from the objective point of view, differentiate themselves with respect to the subjectivity of their agents.

The myth of the neutrality of education — which leads to the negation of the political nature of the educational process, regarding it only as a task we do in the service of humanity in the abstract sense — is the point of departure for our understanding of the fundamental differences between a naive practice, an astute practice, and a truly critical practice.

From the critical point of view, it is as impossible to deny the political nature of the educational process as it is to deny the educational character of the political act. This does not mean, however, that the political nature of the educational process and the educational character of the political act drain the understanding of that process and this act. Just as a neutral education that claims to be at the service of humanity, of human beings in general, is impossible, so is a political practice devoid of educational meaning.

FREIRE, Paulo; MACEDO, Maldonado. Literacy: Reading the Word and the World. London: Routledge, 2005, p. 46. (Adapted).

After reading this excerpt from chapter 2 of the book titled Literacy: Reading the Word and the World, select the correct alternative that completes the sentence: Reading is

Respecto a la colocación pronominal, seleccione la alternativa correcta.

En una clase de ELE de nivel B2, el docente propone la siguiente actividad final de unidad:

“Redacte un texto argumentativo sobre el impacto de las redes sociales en la educación. Se evaluará el uso adecuado de marcadores discursivos”.

Al corregir las producciones, el profesor observa que algunos estudiantes emplean numerosos marcadores (por ejemplo, por otro lado, sin embargo, además, en conclusión), pero el texto presenta problemas de progresión temática y coherencia argumentativa.

A partir de esta situación, seleccione la alternativa que presenta la interpretación pedagógica más adecuada.

En los enfoques contemporáneos del análisis del discurso, los marcadores no se conciben únicamente como elementos de cohesión textual, sino como instrucciones procedimentales que orientan la interpretación del oyente o lector. Su función no consiste en aportar contenido conceptual nuevo, sino en guiar la organización informativa, la relación argumentativa y la actitud del hablante frente a lo enunciado. Desde esta perspectiva, su valor depende del contexto, del género discursivo y de la intención comunicativa (Portolés, 1998).

A partir del fragmento, seleccione la alternativa que presenta una interpretación teórica y didácticamente coherente con la perspectiva expuesta.

En un curso de formación de profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera (ELE), una docente propone la siguiente secuencia didáctica con el género comentario en red social:

1. presenta ejemplos auténticos extraídos de plataformas digitales;

2. analiza con los estudiantes el contexto de producción (quién escribe, para quién, con qué intención y en qué soporte);

3. discute marcas lingüísticas propias del género (modalización, uso de emoticonos, estrategias argumentativas breves);

4. solicita la producción de un comentario crítico sobre un tema de actualidad, considerando el destinatario y el propósito comunicativo;

5. promueve una revisión colectiva centrada en la adecuación discursiva y no solo en la corrección gramatical.

A la luz de la concepción sociointeraccionista de los géneros discursivos defendida por Mikhail Bakhtin (2011) y desarrollada en el ámbito brasileño por Luiz Antônio Marcuschi (2002), señale la alternativa que mejor evalúa la coherencia teórico-metodológica de la propuesta.

Una perspectiva formativa en la evaluación del trabajo con literatura en Español como Lengua Extranjera (ELE) implica entender la evaluación no como el punto final del aprendizaje, sino como un proceso continuo, cualitativo y dialogado que se integra en las actividades de enseñanza para mejorar la comprensión lectora y la competencia lingüístico-cultural del estudiante (García y Serrato, 2015).

En ese sentido, en términos de evaluación, una perspectiva formativa en el trabajo con literatura en ELE supone