Swallows don't eat fish: ensino de inglês e vestibular

Telma Nunes Gimenez

doi:10.5433/2237-4876.2001v4n1p133

Swallows don't eat fish: English teaching and the University Entrance Examination

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Telma Nunes Gimenez Universidade Estadual de Londrina

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https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2001v4n1p133

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University Entrance Examination, English teaching, Washback effect.

Abstract

The potential impact of the State University of Londrina English entrance examination, i.e. its washback effect on state school teaching, was the object of a research project whose partial results are now discussed. In this article two contexts are compared: a secondary school course and a test preparation course. The purpose was to identify the views on language and teaching as observed in classrooms, as well as through interviews with the teachers. Although no evidence of attempts to prepare students to take the test was observed in the secondary school and the opposite was seen in a course especially designed to prepare candidates for the University examination, similarities between both contexts were found. Those similarities related to the teaching materials used and the teachers' perceptions about the potential success of their students.

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Telma Nunes Gimenez, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Telma Nunes Gimenez é formada em Letras Anglo-Portuguesas pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Especialista em Biblioteconomia pelo College of Librarianship Wales, Mestre em Linguistica Aplicada pela PUCSP e doutora pelo departamento de Linguistics and Modern English Language da Lancaster University, Inglaterra.

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2001-07-15

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GIMENEZ, Telma Nunes. Swallows don’t eat fish: English teaching and the University Entrance Examination. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 4, n. 1, p. 133–152, 2001. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.2001v4n1p133. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/4369. Acesso em: 10 dec. 2025.

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2001): Volume Atemático

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