The argumentative pattern of Task IV in Celpe-Bras exam

• Autor(a) principal: Schoffen, Juliana Roquele
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Sirianni, Gabrielle Rodrigues, Kunrath, Simone Paula
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABRALIN (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.abralin.org/index.php/abralin/article/view/1749
• topic: Avaliação de proficiência; Exame Celpe-Bras; Argumentação; Português como Língua Adicional; Proficiency assessment; Celpe-Bras exam; Argumentation; Portuguese as an Additional Language

The Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese for Foreigners (Celpe-Bras), applied since 1998, is used for different purposes, being considered a high-stakes exam (SCHLATTER et al., 2009). The Written Part of the exam consists of four tasks that simulate uses of Portuguese, since the exam considers proficiency as using the language “for social purposes, socially and locally constructed by its participants” (BRASIL, 2020, p. 28). Schoffen et al. (2018), when describing and categorizing the exam tasks, concluded that Task IV presents different characteristics in relation to the other three tasks of the Written Part. Based on these results, this article aims to further analyze Task IV of the exam, presenting its specificities in relation to other tasks. From the analysis of the 43 tasks IV applied in the exam between 1998 and 2019, we concluded that Celpe-Bras has been presenting, in this task, contexts of language use in which the examinees must explicitly position themselves on a certain theme. With this analysis, we identified two recurrent profiles of spheres, speech genres and communicative purposes in Task IV of Celpe-Bras. The description presented contributes to a greater knowledge about the exam itself, as well as it can assist teachers and test takers who seek to know more about Celpe-Bras, in order to prepare themselves better for the exam.