CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers: 688 Questions (Page 1)

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT correct about the three-language formula under NEP 2020?

Accepted Answer

(D) Hindi must be one of the three languages in every state

Question 2

Consider the following statements. 1. Children's dialects should be kept out of the Hindi class so that standard Hindi is learnt faster. 2. Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas is in Awadhi, and Surdas wrote in Braj Bhasha. 3. Comparing dialect words with standard Hindi words can enrich children's vocabulary. Which are correct?

Accepted Answer

(C) 2 and 3 only

Question 3

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

For days the heat had pressed down on the village like a heavy lid. Then, one afternoon, dark clouds gathered in the west, and a cool wind came running across the fields ahead of them. From the edge of the mango grove came a long, harsh cry, and a peacock stepped out into the open. He shook himself, and slowly his great tail rose behind him and spread into a trembling fan of green and gold eyes. He turned this way and that, stamping his feet, as if he had been waiting all summer for an audience. The children of the nearby houses stood frozen at their doors. Then the first drops fell, the fan folded, and the dancer vanished into the trees.

The most suitable title for the passage is:

Accepted Answer

(B) The Dance Before the Rain

Question 4

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A forest works rather like a giant sponge. When rain falls on it, the leaves break the force of the drops, and the thick layer of fallen leaves and roots on the forest floor soaks up the water. Much of it then seeps slowly into the ground, filling underground stores that feed springs and wells long after the rainy season has ended. On a bare hillside the story is different. The rain strikes the earth directly and rushes downhill at once, carrying soil with it and swelling the streams into sudden floods. Then, a few months later, the same streams may run dry. Protecting forests on hills therefore protects the towns and fields that lie below them.

According to the passage's reasoning, a village below a hill that has lost its forest is likely to face

Accepted Answer

(A) floods in the rains and a shortage of water later

Question 5

The most common criticism of the grammar-translation method is that it:

Accepted Answer

(A) Neglects listening and speaking, so learners cannot use the language for communication

Question 6

Consider the following statements about a school library. 1. Books should be chosen only to support textbook lessons. 2. Picture books, comics and magazines also belong in a school library. 3. The library should include books in the languages children speak at home. Which are correct?

Accepted Answer

(D) 2 and 3 only

Question 7

In a Class V class library, children take turns as librarians: they keep the borrowing register, arrange books by type and put up a 'book of the week' chosen by a classmate. What is the main benefit of this arrangement?

Accepted Answer

(A) Children feel the library is theirs and recommend books to each other

Question 8

Class VII students in a Hindi-speaking area say 'vest' and 'west' alike. The teacher plans minimal-pair work on this contrast. What should come first?

Accepted Answer

(C) Listening tasks where they show which word of a pair they hear

Question 9

Consider the following statements about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. 1. Its strong form, that language rigidly determines what a person can think, is widely accepted today. 2. Its weak form, that language can influence some aspects of perception and memory, has found research support. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(B) Only 2

Question 10

Which of the following practices is NOT helpful for a child with a hearing impairment in a language class?

Accepted Answer

(A) Explaining while facing the board as the teacher writes on it

Question 11

On a nature walk, a Class I child keeps asking, 'Why do leaves fall?', 'Where do ants live?', 'What is this flower called?' In Halliday's terms, she is using language as a tool for:

Accepted Answer

(A) Exploring and learning about the world (heuristic function)

Question 12

Match the kinds of assessment with the examples. A. Assessment of learning B. Assessment for learning C. Assessment as learning. 1. Students check their own drafts against criteria and set goals for their next piece 2. A term-end test whose marks are reported to parents 3. Noticing in a lesson that many students are confused, the teacher changes her explanation

Accepted Answer

(C) A-2, B-3, C-1

Question 13

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When the raw mangoes arrive in May, Ammamma takes charge of the house. The terrace is swept, sheets are spread, and the mangoes are washed, dried and cut into pieces on a heavy iron blade that no one else is allowed to touch. Mustard seeds are pounded, chilli powder is measured by eye, and sesame oil is heated until it smokes and then cooled. The grandchildren are given small tasks, such as counting jars or chasing away crows, and are scolded cheerfully when they fail at them. At the end of the week, the filled jars stand in a row in the sun with white cloth tied over their mouths. All year, at every meal, someone will say that this year's pickle is the best ever.

The most suitable title for the passage is:

Accepted Answer

(D) Pickle Week at Ammamma's House

Question 14

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Talk of the value of time can sometimes make it sound as if every minute must be filled with useful work. That is a misunderstanding. A field that is never left fallow loses its richness, and a mind that never rests grows dull. Time spent watching clouds, chatting with family or simply sitting quietly is not wasted if it leaves us refreshed. The real waste of time is different: it is drifting through hours we did not choose, neither working nor truly resting, our attention scattered. Using time well means choosing deliberately, sometimes to work hard, sometimes to play, and sometimes to do nothing at all.

The writer's attitude towards rest is that

Accepted Answer

(B) it is a good use of time if it truly refreshes us

Question 15

Students exchange the first drafts of their stories and tell each other which part they liked and which part was unclear, before rewriting. This practice is:

Accepted Answer

(A) Peer feedback during revision

Question 16

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No single food can give the body everything it needs. Grains such as rice and wheat give us energy for work and play. Pulses, milk, eggs and nuts provide the materials with which the body builds and repairs itself. Fruits and vegetables supply the vitamins and minerals that keep us free from many illnesses, and their fibre helps digestion. Fats are needed too, though only in small amounts. A meal that includes something from each of these groups is called a balanced meal. A traditional plate of dal, rice or roti, a green vegetable, curd and a piece of fruit is a fine example. Eating a variety of foods, rather than large amounts of one favourite dish, is the secret of good nutrition.

Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

Accepted Answer

(A) Variety on the Plate: The Key to Good Food

Question 17

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In November the old park in the middle of Civil Lines turns gold. The leaves of the great trees along the walking path go yellow, then brown, and fall in slow spirals onto the benches, the lawn and the heads of the morning walkers. Every day Ganpat, the park's sweeper, gathers them into heaps with his long broom, and every day the wind and the children scatter them again. He does not seem to mind. He leaves one great heap near the swings on purpose, and when the little ones from the nursery school come running to jump into it, he leans on his broom and watches, smiling, before he begins sweeping all over again.

Which title best suits the passage?

Accepted Answer

(D) Ganpat and the Falling Leaves

Question 18

After a Class III class has enjoyed reciting a poem about rain, which follow-up activity is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

(A) Children share their own experiences of rain and try adding a few lines to the poem

Question 19

In Chomsky's transformational-generative grammar, 'The cat chased the rat' and 'The rat was chased by the cat' look different but are said to share the same:

Accepted Answer

(C) Deep structure

Question 20

Why is a standard form of Hindi (मानक हिंदी) taught in school even though children speak many different dialects?

Accepted Answer

(A) It gives a common form for writing, education and communication across regions

Question 21

A teacher reads an enlarged-print 'big book' to the whole class, pointing to each word as she reads, pausing to let children predict and join in with repeated lines. This activity is known as:

Accepted Answer

(D) Shared reading

Question 22

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Our hands touch hundreds of things every day: door handles, coins, books, animals and other people's hands. Along the way they pick up germs too small to see, and when we eat with them or rub our eyes, those germs find their way into our bodies. Many common illnesses, such as diarrhoea and colds, spread in exactly this way. Rinsing with plain water removes some dirt, but it does not loosen the oily layer in which germs cling. Soap does. Rubbing the hands with soap for about twenty seconds, including the backs of the hands, between the fingers and under the nails, and then rinsing well, removes most of them. It is one of the cheapest ways to protect health.

Going by the passage, which child is most likely to be safe from germs at lunch?

Accepted Answer

(C) One who scrubs her hands well with soap before eating

Question 23

A listening lesson is organised in pre-listening, while-listening and post-listening stages. The main purpose of the pre-listening stage is to:

Accepted Answer

(B) Activate students' background knowledge and set a purpose for listening

Question 24

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A large part of what many households throw away is kitchen waste: vegetable peels, tea leaves, eggshells and leftover food. Sent to a city dump, this waste mixes with plastic and other rubbish, gives off foul smells and attracts flies. Kept separate, however, it can be turned into something valuable. In a compost pit or a covered pot, layered with dry leaves and a little soil, it is slowly broken down by worms and tiny organisms into dark, crumbly compost. In a couple of months this rich material can be mixed into garden beds and pots, where it feeds plants far more gently than chemical fertilisers. What was rubbish thus returns to the earth as food.

According to the passage, what breaks the kitchen waste down into compost?

Accepted Answer

(D) Worms and tiny organisms

Question 25

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We have learned to worry about dirty air and dirty water, but we seldom think of noise as a kind of pollution. Yet the constant blare of horns, loudspeakers played late into the night, and machines that run without pause do real harm. Loud noise over long periods can damage hearing, and even moderate noise that never stops makes it hard to sleep, to study and to think clearly. Old people, the sick and young children suffer the most. Much of this noise is unnecessary. A driver who honks only when there is real danger, a family that keeps its music at a reasonable volume, a celebration that ends at a decent hour: each of these shows consideration for neighbours who also deserve some quiet.

The writer wrote this passage mainly to

Accepted Answer

(C) urge people to cut needless noise out of care for others

Question 26

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When Uncle Ashok brought home a green parrot, he announced that he would teach it to say 'Good morning'. For six weeks he stood before the cage every day, repeating the words patiently. The parrot listened with its head on one side, cracked seeds and said nothing. Then one afternoon the pressure cooker in the kitchen let off its whistle, and from the cage came a perfect copy of the sound. From that day the parrot whistled like a cooker twenty times a day, sending Aunt Rekha running to the kitchen again and again. It has still never said 'Good morning'. Uncle Ashok insists that it is only being shy.

The writer's tone in the passage is:

Accepted Answer

(A) gently amused

Question 27

Under Section 29 of the RTE Act 2009, which deals with curriculum and evaluation, the medium of instruction in elementary education shall, as far as practicable, be:

Accepted Answer

(D) The child's mother tongue

Question 28

Why can giving a single fixed Hindi equivalent for each new English word sometimes mislead learners?

Accepted Answer

(A) Words rarely match exactly across languages; 'uncle' can mean चाचा, मामा, ताऊ, फूफा or मौसा

Question 29

Three children from a Bengali-speaking migrant family have joined a Class III class in Delhi, where Hindi is the medium. Two classmates speak both Bengali and Hindi. Which strategy is most helpful at first?

Accepted Answer

(A) Seat them with the bilingual classmates, who can help them follow and join in lessons

Question 30

Two-year-old Gudiya calls every man she sees 'Papa' and every four-legged animal 'kutta'. This is an example of:

Accepted Answer

(D) Overextension

Question 31

After a story, a teacher lets children show what they understood by retelling it, drawing a comic strip, writing a summary or acting out a scene. This reflects which principle of inclusive teaching?

Accepted Answer

(A) Providing multiple means of expression, as in Universal Design for Learning

Question 32

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The rain had not stopped for two days, the school was closed, and by the third morning Vani and her brother had quarrelled over every game in the house. Their mother, looking for an umbrella in the old trunk, pulled out instead a dusty album of black-and-white photographs. The quarrel stopped at once. Here was their grandmother as a girl with two long plaits, standing beside a bicycle; here was their father, aged about four, howling at a camera; here was a wedding where nobody was smiling. The children turned the stiff pages slowly, asking question after question. When the rain finally eased that evening, neither of them noticed until their mother pointed out of the window.

Why did neither child notice that the rain had eased?

Accepted Answer

(A) They were absorbed in the old photographs

Question 33

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We usually picture a good teacher as someone who speaks well, explaining difficult ideas clearly and holding the attention of a whole class. That is important, but it is only half the picture. A good teacher is also a patient listener. When a child's answer is wrong, listening to how she reached it often reveals exactly where the confusion lies. When a shy student finally speaks, being heard with respect may give him the courage to speak again. Children can tell quickly whether an adult is truly listening or only waiting for a chance to talk. Those who feel heard tend to trust their teachers, and children learn most readily from people they trust.

It can be inferred from the passage that a teacher who does not listen to students may

Accepted Answer

(C) find it harder to win their trust and help them learn

Question 34

Rohan in Class IV reads a passage aloud fluently with correct pronunciation, but cannot answer simple questions about what he has read. His difficulty lies in:

Accepted Answer

(C) Comprehension

Question 35

A shy Class IV child rarely speaks in class. Which activity is most likely to help her participate?

Accepted Answer

(C) Giving her a small role in a group play, or letting her speak through a puppet

Question 36

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A handful of good soil looks ordinary, but it is the product of a patient process. Rocks are slowly broken into smaller pieces by sun, wind, rain and frost, and by the roots of plants that push into their cracks. Over a very long time these fragments mix with the decayed remains of leaves and animals, and with countless tiny living creatures, to become fertile earth. A layer only a few centimetres thick may take hundreds of years to form. Yet a single season of heavy rain on bare, unprotected land can wash it away. Because soil is made so slowly and lost so quickly, it is wise to treat it not as dirt but as a precious inheritance.

The word 'inheritance' as used in the last sentence means

Accepted Answer

(D) something valuable handed down from earlier generations

Question 37

A teacher plays a recorded dialogue, makes the class repeat each line in chorus, and then conducts substitution drills in which one word of the pattern is changed each time. This is typical of the:

Accepted Answer

(D) Audio-lingual method

Question 38

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

We can live for weeks without food and for days without water, but only for a few minutes without air. Each breath carries air down into the lungs, where oxygen passes into the blood and carbon dioxide is given out. The nose prepares this air before it arrives. Tiny hairs and a sticky lining inside the nose trap dust and germs, while the air is warmed and moistened on its way in. This is why breathing through the nose is better than breathing through the mouth. Yet even the best filter cannot cope with heavy smoke and dust. Lungs stay healthy when the air around us is clean, which is why smoke-free homes and green, open spaces matter so much for children.

The central idea of the passage is that

Accepted Answer

(C) the nose and lungs bring us air, and clean air keeps them healthy

Question 39

Consider: 1. In communicative language teaching, fluency generally gets priority, but accuracy is not ignored. 2. Communicative language teaching forbids any teaching of grammar. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(A) Only 1

Question 40

A learner consistently says 'He go to school' in all contexts, and does not recognise that it is wrong even when it is pointed out. In the language of error analysis, this is a/an:

Accepted Answer

(C) Error

Question 41

Which observation is most often cited in support of the nativist (innate) view of language acquisition?

Accepted Answer

(D) Children across very different languages reach similar milestones at similar ages

Question 42

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Long before the sun rose over the village, Ramdin was already at his wheel. He wet his hands, threw a lump of clay onto the centre and set the wheel spinning with a stick. Under his fingers the shapeless lump rose slowly, opened like a flower and became a pot with a smooth, thin rim. He worked without hurry, humming an old tune, and set each pot in a neat row to dry in the shade. Children on their way to the well often stopped to watch him. To them it looked like magic, but Ramdin only laughed and said that his hands had simply been practising for forty years. By noon the row of pots stretched to the end of the yard.

Which of the following is the most suitable title for the passage?

Accepted Answer

(C) The Potter at His Wheel

Question 43

According to Piaget, the appearance of language at around two years of age is one expression of a broader new ability that also shows in pretend play and deferred imitation. This ability is called the:

Accepted Answer

(B) Symbolic (semiotic) function

Question 44

While reading a passage to the class, a teacher pauses and says, 'I don't understand this line, so let me read it again and look at the picture.' This technique, which shows students how a good reader monitors understanding, is called:

Accepted Answer

(D) Think-aloud

Question 45

Consider the following statements about NEP 2020. 1. Its provision on the home language as medium of instruction is to be followed by both public and private schools. 2. After that stage, the home or local language should continue to be taught as a language wherever possible. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(C) Both 1 and 2

Question 46

Four-year-olds playing 'shop' in the classroom corner use polite requests, numbers and full sentences that they rarely use otherwise. Which view of play explains this best?

Accepted Answer

(C) Vygotsky's view that play creates a zone of proximal development

Question 47

A ten-month-old in a day-care centre points at a bird and looks back at her caregiver. Which response best supports her language development?

Accepted Answer

(B) Looking at the bird and naming it: 'Yes, a bird! The bird is flying.'

Question 48

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Every afternoon that summer, Sameer sat on a flat rock at the edge of the village pond, keeping perfectly still. He was waiting for the kingfisher. It would appear without warning, a flash of electric blue, and settle on a dead branch that hung over the water. There it would perch for long minutes, so motionless that Sameer sometimes lost sight of it against the leaves. Then, without any sign, it would drop like a stone, strike the water and rise with a tiny silver fish held crosswise in its beak. In six weeks Sameer saw it miss only twice. He began to think that patience might be a kind of skill.

In the passage, the word 'motionless' means:

Accepted Answer

(A) not moving at all

Question 49

Which of the following statements correctly reflects Krashen's natural order hypothesis?

Accepted Answer

(B) Grammatical structures are acquired in a predictable sequence, whatever the order of teaching

Question 50

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All morning the sky over the school had been the colour of wet slate. Just as Mrs. Kulkarni began the lesson on fractions, the first fat drops drummed on the tin roof, and within a minute the whole world outside the window had turned silver. Thirty heads swung towards the sound. For a moment she frowned; then she closed the book. 'Fractions can wait,' she said. 'The first rain of the year cannot.' The children crowded onto the verandah and held out their palms. The dry playground drank the water greedily, and a smell rose from the earth that no one could describe but everyone knew. Later, when they returned to their desks, the class wrote about the rain, and for once nobody complained about having nothing to say.

Why did nobody complain about having nothing to say when the class wrote about the rain?

Accepted Answer

(C) They had just felt the rain themselves and had plenty to say

CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers

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