CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers: 688 Questions (Page 11)

Question 1

In a Class VIII debate, the speakers only read out speeches prepared at home and never respond to what the other side has said. Which change will most improve the next debate as a language activity?

Accepted Answer

(B) Adding a rebuttal round in which each speaker must answer a point made by the other side

Question 2

Many Hindi-speaking learners pronounce 'Wednesday' as 'Wed-nes-day' and sound the 'p' in 'receipt'. Which explanation fits best?

Accepted Answer

(D) Devanagari is mostly written as spoken, so they expect every letter to be sounded

Question 3

Before a lesson on honeybees, a teacher asks children what they already know and what they want to find out; after reading, she asks what they have learnt, recording answers in three columns. This strategy is called a:

Accepted Answer

(D) KWL chart

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT an aim of teaching prose (गद्य शिक्षण) in Hindi?

Accepted Answer

(A) Making children memorise the lesson so that they can reproduce it word for word

Question 5

A bilingual child says, 'Mummy, mujhe yeh toy chahiye, it is so cute', moving between Hindi and English within one utterance. This phenomenon is known as:

Accepted Answer

(A) Code-switching

Question 6

In a Class VI English period, the teacher reads each sentence of the lesson aloud and at once translates it into Hindi. Soon the children listen only for the Hindi. What does NCERT's position paper on teaching English, citing Krashen, say about this practice?

Accepted Answer

(C) It is not effective; the mother tongue should give background, not replace the English

Question 7

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

When Mr. Iyer retired after thirty-five years of teaching, his former pupils expected him to rest. Instead he cleared out the front room of his house, put up three shelves made from old packing crates, and filled them with every book he owned. He painted a board saying 'Read here, free' and hung it on the gate. For weeks only a few curious children came. Then a farmer stopped to look at a book on growing vegetables, a girl preparing for college found an atlas, and a group of boys discovered a shelf of comics. Now, on summer afternoons, there is not a spare inch on the floor. Mr. Iyer sits in the corner and pretends to be busy with a newspaper, watching them read.

What is the writer mainly trying to show in the passage?

Accepted Answer

(C) How one person's simple effort drew people to books

Question 8

A Class II teacher notices that her pupils love cricket, so she builds her speaking and vocabulary activities around a cricket match the children watched. Which principle of language teaching does this best illustrate?

Accepted Answer

(D) Principle of interest and motivation

Question 9

For several weeks a Class I teacher has given commands such as 'Open the door' and 'Put the pencil on the book', and the children now carry them out easily. What is the most suitable next step in this technique?

Accepted Answer

(B) Let children take turns giving commands to the teacher and classmates

Question 10

As the children wash their hands before lunch, a Class I teacher sings 'This is the way we wash our hands', and on other days, with actions, 'This is the way we comb our hair' and '... tie our shoes'. What does this mainly do?

Accepted Answer

(B) Recycles one sentence pattern with new action words in a memorable way

Question 11

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

By noon on the day of the kite festival, the sky above the old town was crowded with paper diamonds of every colour. On the roofs below, boys and girls tugged and slackened their strings, their eyes screwed up against the glare. Ayaan's kite, a green one with a crooked tail, rose shakily at first, then caught a steady breeze and soared. Within minutes a red kite drifted close and the two strings crossed. Ayaan's cousin shouted advice from behind him, his uncle shouted different advice from the next roof, and Ayaan heard neither. He let out the string, then pulled hard. The red kite wobbled, broke free and sailed away over the rooftops, and a roar went up from three houses at once.

In the passage, the word 'slackened' (their strings) means:

Accepted Answer

(A) let them become loose

Question 12

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Every sound begins with a vibration. When a drum is struck, its skin shakes rapidly back and forth, pushing on the air next to it. That air pushes on the air beyond, and the disturbance spreads outward until it reaches our ears. Sound therefore needs something to travel through. It moves through air, but it also moves through water and through solids such as wood and metal; a person with an ear pressed to a long table can hear a light tap at the far end quite clearly. Where there is nothing at all, as in the empty space between the planets, sound cannot travel. Astronauts working outside their spacecraft talk to each other by radio, not by shouting.

Which of the following can be concluded from the passage?

Accepted Answer

(C) An explosion in empty space would make no sound anyone could hear

Question 13

Hindi textbooks for Classes VI to VIII include different prose forms (विधाएँ) such as stories, essays, letters, diary entries, travelogues and biographies. The main reason for this variety is to:

Accepted Answer

(D) Expose learners to different styles and purposes of writing, which they can also try out

Question 14

Most Class VII students reproduce a guidebook essay on 'दीपावली' (Diwali). Which change will best encourage original writing?

Accepted Answer

(C) Set topics from their own lives, e.g. 'Our Diwali this year', and discuss ideas first

Question 15

The term 'interlanguage', referring to the learner's own evolving linguistic system that lies between the mother tongue and the target language, was coined by:

Accepted Answer

(B) Larry Selinker

Question 16

Which of the following is the most effective way to teach grammar at the primary level?

Accepted Answer

(B) Teaching grammar in context, through meaningful use in stories, conversations and tasks

Question 17

A Class I teacher says 'Stand up', 'Touch your nose', 'Jump twice', and children respond by performing the actions without speaking. This technique is called:

Accepted Answer

(A) Total physical response

Question 18

To make the home language a workable medium of instruction, NEP 2020 states that:

Accepted Answer

(B) High-quality textbooks, including science, will be available in home languages/mother tongue

Question 19

Class VIII students compare how two newspapers report the same local event, noting differences in the headlines, the words used and what each report leaves out. This activity mainly develops:

Accepted Answer

(B) Critical reading: noticing how language choices shape a message

Question 20

Under NEP 2020, every student is to take part in a fun project or activity on 'The Languages of India', for example under the Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat initiative. When is this to happen?

Accepted Answer

(A) Sometime in Grades 6-8

Question 21

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

In summer, when ponds shrink and puddles dry up, small birds such as sparrows and mynas often struggle to find a drink. A shallow clay bowl of water placed on a balcony or windowsill can make a real difference to them. It should be kept in the shade, so that the water stays cool, and cleaned and refilled every day, since stale water can spread disease. A few grains or crumbs nearby will soon bring visitors. Children who set up such a bowl often find themselves watching it closely, learning to tell one bird from another. In this way a simple act of care for others becomes a lesson in patience and observation as well.

In the passage, 'them' in 'make a real difference to them' refers to

Accepted Answer

(C) small birds such as sparrows and mynas

Question 22

Consider the following statements about NEP 2020's suggestions for achieving foundational literacy and numeracy. 1. Peer tutoring can be taken up as a voluntary and joyful activity for fellow students, under the supervision of trained teachers. 2. Peer tutors should replace teachers in classes that have too many students. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(A) 1 only

Question 23

Match the conditions with their descriptions. A. Dyslexia B. Aphasia C. Stuttering D. Dyspraxia. 1. Loss or impairment of language after damage to the brain 2. Difficulty in planning and coordinating movements 3. Persistent difficulty in decoding and reading words 4. Disruption in the flow of speech through repetitions and blocks

Accepted Answer

(C) A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2

Question 24

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

A plant cannot walk, yet its children often grow far away from it. If every seed simply dropped beneath its parent, the young plants would struggle for light, water and space. Nature has found clever ways to solve this problem. Some seeds, like those of the cotton plant, are covered with fine hairs and drift away on the wind. Others, like the coconut, have a light, fibrous husk that lets them float across water for long distances. Many fruits are sweet so that birds and animals eat them; the seeds pass through their bodies unharmed and are dropped in new places. In each case the plant uses something that moves to carry its seeds where they have a better chance to grow.

In the passage, the words 'this problem' refer to

Accepted Answer

(D) young plants struggling for light, water and space under the parent

Question 25

Which of the following activities does the LEAST to develop spontaneous speaking among Class II children?

Accepted Answer

(B) Reciting a memorised paragraph word for word

Question 26

Which method of teaching poetry is most suitable for Classes I and II?

Accepted Answer

(D) Song and action method (गीत एवं अभिनय विधि): children sing and act out the poem

Question 27

Louise Rosenblatt distinguished two stances a reader can take. Reading a poem to live through its feelings, images and sounds, rather than to pick out information, is what she called:

Accepted Answer

(C) Aesthetic reading

Question 28

For all children entering Grade 1, NEP 2020 recommends:

Accepted Answer

(B) A three-month play-based school preparation module on letters, sounds, words, colours, shapes and numbers

Question 29

For an oral test in a rural Class V, a teacher plans to ask each child to describe 'a trip to a shopping mall'. Many of the children have never been to one. What is the main problem with this task?

Accepted Answer

(A) It depends on a mall visit as much as on spoken English

Question 30

A 'Say Aloud' activity in NCERT's Marigold (Class V) asks children to circle the words with a 'zzzzz' sound among words such as price, prize, rice, rise, this, these, busy and fizz. What does it mainly make them aware of?

Accepted Answer

(C) That one sound may be spelt in different ways: z, zz or s

Question 31

A toddler uses the word 'billi' only for her family's own cat and refuses to call the neighbour's cat or a cat in a picture book 'billi'. This is called:

Accepted Answer

(C) Underextension

Question 32

Class VIII students write their essays at home with very few grammatical errors, yet make many of the same errors when speaking spontaneously in class. Krashen's monitor hypothesis explains this because the monitor works well only when the learner:

Accepted Answer

(A) Has enough time, is focused on form and knows the relevant rule

Question 33

How is the effectiveness of a child's silent reading (मौन पठन) best judged?

Accepted Answer

(A) By how well she understood it, checked through questions or tasks

Question 34

When talking to infants, parents often speak slowly, use short sentences, repeat words and exaggerate their intonation. This special way of speaking is called:

Accepted Answer

(C) Child-directed speech

Question 35

A Class I teacher wants her pupils, who are just beginning to read English, to start using a dictionary. Which kind is most suitable for them?

Accepted Answer

(B) A picture dictionary that shows each word with an illustration

Question 36

A teacher gives Class V students a set of hints, 'a thirsty crow, a pot with little water, pebbles, the crow drinks', and asks them to write the story in their own words. This is an example of:

Accepted Answer

(A) Guided writing

Question 37

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Many of us believe that saving water is the job of governments and of the engineers who build dams and pipelines. Yet a great deal of water is lost in ordinary homes, a little at a time. A tap left running while we brush our teeth, a leaking pipe that nobody bothers to repair, a bucket of clean water thrown away after rinsing vegetables: none of these seems serious on its own. Added together across millions of homes, however, they amount to rivers of wasted water every day. The good news is that the remedy is just as ordinary. Closing a tap, fixing a leak and using rinse water for plants cost nothing and need no special skill. If each family took such small steps, the effect would be enormous.

The writer's main purpose in this passage is to

Accepted Answer

(D) persuade readers that small household habits can save a lot of water

Question 38

Match the drama techniques with their descriptions: (a) Mime (b) Role play (c) Hot seating (d) Readers' theatre. (i) A student in role answers classmates' questions (ii) Telling a story through actions, without words (iii) Reading a script aloud expressively, without memorising it (iv) Acting out a situation in a role, e.g. shopkeeper and customer

Accepted Answer

(A) a-ii, b-iv, c-i, d-iii

Question 39

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

A parrot can be taught to repeat a sentence perfectly, yet it has no idea what the words mean. Some students study in much the same way, memorising answers word for word in the hope of reproducing them in the examination. This may bring marks for a while, but such knowledge is fragile. Change the question slightly, and the memorised answer no longer fits. A student who has understood an idea, on the other hand, can explain it in her own words, apply it to a new problem and connect it with what she already knows. Memory certainly has its place, for tables and spellings must be remembered. But memory without understanding is like a house built on sand.

The word 'fragile' as used in the passage means

Accepted Answer

(B) easily broken or lost

Question 40

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Most of us are better at talking than at listening. When a friend tells us about a problem, we are often busy preparing our reply, or waiting for a pause in which to describe a similar thing that happened to us. Real listening is different. It means giving the other person our full attention, letting them finish, and trying to understand not just their words but their feelings. It may mean saying very little at all. People who are listened to in this way feel valued and understood, and they often find their own solutions as they talk. Attentive listening is one of the quietest forms of kindness, and one of the rarest.

The word 'attentive' as used in the passage means

Accepted Answer

(D) giving full and careful attention

Question 41

To build a culture of reading, NEP 2020 states that enjoyable and inspirational books for students at all levels should be:

Accepted Answer

(A) Available in all local and Indian languages, including translations, in school and public libraries

Question 42

Consider these statements about early reading: 1. Reading should be treated as a process of making meaning from the very beginning. 2. Children should be given meaningful texts only after they have mastered decoding all the letters. Which is/are in line with the approach of NCF 2005?

Accepted Answer

(A) Only 1

Question 43

In an elimination spelling bee, any child who misspells a word sits down. Which change would most improve it as a learning activity?

Accepted Answer

(A) Keep every child playing, e.g. in teams that write and check words together

Question 44

Many children in a Class I classroom are first-generation learners whose homes have few printed materials. To support their language and literacy, the teacher should:

Accepted Answer

(B) Read aloud and tell stories daily, giving children many chances to talk about them

Question 45

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

In an age that values speed, slow reading can seem old-fashioned. Yet some texts reveal themselves only to the patient reader. A poem read in a hurry may seem to say very little; read again, aloud and unhurriedly, it can surprise us with a meaning we had missed. The same is true of a good explanation in science or history, where each sentence carries an idea that the next one builds upon. Skimming has its uses, as when we glance quickly over a newspaper page to get a rough idea of the day's news. But for anything worth understanding deeply, it pays to slow down, to pause at a difficult line, and even to read the whole piece a second time.

In the passage, 'skimming' means

Accepted Answer

(A) reading quickly to get the general idea

Question 46

An infant of about six months produces repeated consonant-vowel syllables such as 'ba-ba-ba' and 'ma-ma-ma' that do not yet carry meaning. This stage of language development is called:

Accepted Answer

(D) Babbling stage

Question 47

Chomsky's theory of universal grammar holds that:

Accepted Answer

(C) All human languages share a common underlying set of principles that children are born with

Question 48

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Under a faded umbrella at the corner of Station Road sits Hariram, the cobbler, surrounded by soles, nails, tins of polish and a dozen pairs of shoes waiting their turn. He does not look up much. His hands are too busy stitching, hammering and trimming. Yet he notices more than people think. He knows which clerk's shoes are always worn down on the left heel, which schoolboy kicks stones on the way home, and which old man has walked the same route for fifty years. 'Shoes tell you how a person walks through life,' he says, and laughs, as if he has said something silly. Then he bends over the next pair and goes on listening to the street.

The writer's attitude towards Hariram can best be described as:

Accepted Answer

(C) warm and appreciative

Question 49

In language teaching, which statement best distinguishes listening from hearing?

Accepted Answer

(B) Hearing is the physical perception of sound; listening is active attention to it to make meaning

Question 50

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Mosquitoes may be tiny, but some of them spread serious diseases such as malaria and dengue. The female mosquito lays her eggs in still water, or on the damp inside wall of a container just above it, and once in water they become new mosquitoes that are ready to fly in about a week. They do not need a lake for this; a little water collected in an old tyre, a broken pot, a flower vase or a cooler that is never emptied will do. This means that a family can do much to protect itself simply by looking around the house. Emptying and scrubbing every container that holds water at least once a week, or keeping it tightly covered, breaks the mosquito's life cycle before it is complete.

Why does the passage advise emptying water containers at least once a week?

Accepted Answer

(C) Eggs laid in still water become flying mosquitoes in about a week

CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers

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