CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers: 688 Questions (Page 14)

Question 1

Raghav in Class VI stammers severely and is anxious about an oral presentation that counts towards assessment. What is the fairest arrangement?

Accepted Answer

(C) Letting him present to a small group or the teacher, with extra time, assessing his content

Question 2

NEP 2020 recommends the home language as the medium of instruction in the early years mainly because:

Accepted Answer

(C) Young children grasp non-trivial concepts more quickly in their home language

Question 3

Rina in Class VI has dyslexia. She understands well when she listens, but reading a grade-level chapter takes her a very long time. Which support best gives her access to the same lessons as her classmates?

Accepted Answer

(D) Audiobooks or text-to-speech for long texts, while her reading skills continue to be supported

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a sound principle of language teaching at the primary stage?

Accepted Answer

(D) The teacher should do most of the talking so that children hear only correct language

Question 5

Consider the following statements about pronunciation errors. 1. Fear and hesitation can make a child's pronunciation unclear. 2. Pronunciation errors cannot be corrected once a child has passed Class II. 3. Speaking too fast can make sounds indistinct. Which are correct?

Accepted Answer

(D) 1 and 3 only

Question 6

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Every May the mango orchard behind the school became the most tempting place in the village, and old Jaggu, the watchman, became the most watched man. He sat on a string cot under the biggest tree with a stick across his knees, and the boys of Class Seven planned raids as carefully as generals. Somehow Jaggu always seemed to be looking the other way just as a few mangoes disappeared, yet he always appeared, shouting and waving his stick, just as a boy began to climb too high. The boys thought they were very clever. It was only years later, when Raghav came back to the village as a grown man, that he understood why no one had ever fallen from those trees.

What did Raghav understand only years later?

Accepted Answer

(C) Jaggu let them take mangoes but stopped risky climbs

Question 7

In process writing, how does revising differ from editing?

Accepted Answer

(D) Revising improves content, ideas and organisation; editing corrects grammar, spelling and punctuation

Question 8

A teacher writes brief, dated notes whenever she observes something significant about a child's language use, for example, 'Riya used the new word "festival" correctly while talking about Diwali.' Such notes are called:

Accepted Answer

(A) Anecdotal records

Question 9

In Krashen's formula 'i+1', what does the '+1' represent?

Accepted Answer

(A) Language input slightly above the learner's current level of competence

Question 10

A Class V child writes a short poem about her grandmother that does not rhyme. How should the teacher respond?

Accepted Answer

(B) Appreciate its feelings and images, since a poem need not rhyme

Question 11

To teach 'in', 'on' and 'under', a teacher places a ball in a box, on the box and under the box, and children describe each position before using the words in sentences about pictures. Which principle is being applied?

Accepted Answer

(A) From concrete to abstract

Question 12

Consider the following possible causes of spelling errors in Hindi. 1. Not knowing the rules for writing conjuncts and रेफ 2. Influence of regional pronunciation 3. Writing in a hurry without reading over the work. Which of these are recognised causes?

Accepted Answer

(C) 1, 2 and 3

Question 13

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

The rain began ten minutes into the second half, and soon the school ground was a field of mud. The referee, Mr. Thomas, looked at the sky, looked at the twenty-two players, and decided that nobody would ever forgive him if he stopped the match. So it went on. The ball stuck in puddles and then skidded off at strange angles. Players slid yards past it, fell in heaps, got up laughing and fell again. Nobody could tell the two teams apart any more, because every shirt was the same shade of brown. The final score was two goals each, but in the weeks that followed, the match was remembered not for the goals but for the mud.

Which title best fits the passage?

Accepted Answer

(A) The Muddy Match

Question 14

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

The internet has placed an enormous library in our pockets, but it is a library without a librarian. Alongside careful, accurate information, it carries rumours, mistakes and deliberate falsehoods, and they often look exactly alike. A message that arrives with alarming news and an urgent request to 'forward to everyone' should make us more cautious, not less. Before believing or sharing something, it is wise to ask a few simple questions. Who is saying this? How do they know? Do other trustworthy sources say the same? Taking a minute to check can stop a false story from spreading, and it builds a habit of careful thinking that serves us in every part of life.

The main purpose of the passage is to

Accepted Answer

(B) encourage readers to check information before believing or sharing it

Question 15

Word pairs such as काल–खाल (time–skin), पल–फल (moment–fruit) and बात–भात (talk–cooked rice) differ only in the first consonant. Practising them mainly helps children distinguish between:

Accepted Answer

(A) Unaspirated (अल्पप्राण) and aspirated (महाप्राण) consonants

Question 16

Consider the principle that grammar follows language: its rules are drawn from the language people actually use. The main classroom implication is that:

Accepted Answer

(A) Children should first use and experience the language, and then reflect on its grammar

Question 17

Every page of NCERT's Honeycomb and Honeydew has a column for words and meanings. What do the books' notes for the teacher suggest about it?

Accepted Answer

(B) Children should add other words they find difficult, with meanings

Question 18

A child uses the word 'brother' correctly every day but cannot explain what makes someone a brother, while she can define 'exploitation', learnt in a school lesson, yet rarely uses it in her own talk. Vygotsky would describe these as, respectively:

Accepted Answer

(A) A spontaneous (everyday) concept and a scientific concept

Question 19

Methods of teaching reading are often classified as synthetic (from parts to whole) or analytic (from whole to parts). Which of these is an analytic method?

Accepted Answer

(C) Sentence method

Question 20

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

During the rains the stream between Bela and the school swells into a brown, hurrying river, and the little wooden bridge disappears under it. From July to September, therefore, old Kesar ferries the children across in his flat-bottomed boat. He insists that they sit still with their bags on their laps, and he counts them aloud twice, once on each bank. He takes no money for these trips. When parents try to pay, he tells them to send him instead a page from their children's notebooks at the end of the year, and on the wall of his hut hang dozens of them, filled with sums, maps and drawings of a boat on a brown river.

What does Kesar ask parents to give him instead of money?

Accepted Answer

(D) A page from their children's notebooks

Question 21

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Every Tuesday Shabnam the bangle-seller sets up her stall at the bus stand, and within minutes it is surrounded by girls and women of every age. Her glass bangles hang on wooden rods in rows of red, green, gold and a blue so deep it is almost black. She has a gift for knowing a wrist's size at a glance, and she slips the bangles over a customer's hand with a gentle twisting movement that never breaks one. While she works she talks: about the price of glass, about her daughter in college, about the weather. Customers who came for two bangles leave with six, and nobody seems to mind. 'It is not the bangles they buy,' Shabnam once said. 'It is the afternoon.'

The tone of the passage is mainly:

Accepted Answer

(D) affectionate and lively

Question 22

Standard Hindi (मानक हिंदी), used in textbooks and formal writing, developed mainly on the basis of which dialect?

Accepted Answer

(D) खड़ी बोली (Khari Boli)

Question 23

NCERT's 'Barkha' series is best described as:

Accepted Answer

(D) A graded series of storybooks to support early reading in Classes 1 and 2

Question 24

According to the behaviourist view of B.F. Skinner, a child learns language mainly through:

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(C) Imitation, practice and reinforcement of correct responses

Question 25

The main aim of teaching Hindi grammar at the upper primary stage is to:

Accepted Answer

(B) Help learners use the language correctly and understand how it works

Question 26

In Class V, some children read chapter books while others still read short sentences. The teacher gives different reading materials and tasks to different groups while all work on the same theme. This reflects the principle of:

Accepted Answer

(A) Catering to individual differences

Question 27

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

It is easy to judge others when we see only what they do and not what they are going through. A classmate who snaps at us may have slept badly because of trouble at home. A shopkeeper who seems rude may be worried about a sick child. Empathy is the effort to imagine ourselves in another person's place, to ask what it might feel like to be them at that moment. It does not mean excusing every unkind act. It means pausing before we react, and allowing for the possibility that there is more to the story than we can see. Such a pause can turn an argument into an understanding.

According to the passage, which response best shows empathy when a friend is unusually short-tempered?

Accepted Answer

(A) Wondering whether something is troubling him before reacting

Question 28

A teacher asks children to write a few lines in a personal diary every day about anything they like, and she does not mark errors in it. The main aim of this practice is to:

Accepted Answer

(C) Build fluency, confidence and the habit of expressing ideas in writing

Question 29

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

The bus to the hills left at dawn, and by the time it began to climb, every seat and most of the aisle was full. The road wound round the mountain in tight loops, and at every bend the bus lurched, so that a basket of cucumbers slid one way and a sleeping child slid the other. Deepak, who had never been to the hills, clutched the seat in front and tried not to look at the drop beside the road. The conductor noticed his pale face. Without a word he opened the window beside Deepak, handed him a slice of lemon and pointed to the far peaks, so that Deepak would look at them instead of the road. An hour later Deepak was asleep with his head against the glass.

In the passage, the word 'lurched' means:

Accepted Answer

(B) jerked suddenly and unsteadily

Question 30

While teaching a prose lesson, which of the following is the most appropriate sequence for a teacher to follow?

Accepted Answer

(C) Pre-reading talk, silent reading, comprehension questions and discussion, post-reading activities

Question 31

After reading the story of the hare and the tortoise (खरगोश और कछुआ), a teacher asks Class VI students to retell it as the tortoise would tell it. This task mainly develops:

Accepted Answer

(A) Imagination and seeing events from another's point of view

Question 32

Which of the following is NOT an appropriate aim of handwriting teaching at the primary stage?

Accepted Answer

(A) Making every child's handwriting look exactly like the teacher's

Question 33

A five-year-old in pre-school sometimes writes 'b' for 'd' and forms a few letters back to front. What is the most appropriate view for the teacher to take?

Accepted Answer

(A) Such reversals are common among beginning writers and on their own are not a sign of dyslexia

Question 34

A teacher notices that almost all her Class III pupils say 'सरक' for 'सड़क' (road), and realises that she herself pronounces ड़ like र. What should be her first step?

Accepted Answer

(D) Work on her own pronunciation, since children imitate the teacher's model

Question 35

After writing a letter, students tick a list: 'Did I write the date? Did I greet the reader? Did I say why I am writing? Did I end politely?' The main purpose of this list is to:

Accepted Answer

(B) Help students review and assess their own writing

Question 36

Arif joined Class II a month ago from another state. He follows instructions and enjoys stories but has not yet spoken in the school language. Consider: 1. Arif's silence means he must have a speech disorder. 2. Arif is learning nothing until he begins to speak. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(D) Neither 1 nor 2

Question 37

A Class I child brings her favourite toy to class and talks about it while her classmates ask her questions. This speaking activity is known as:

Accepted Answer

(C) Show and tell

Question 38

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

In February the fields around Nimgaon change colour almost overnight. Where there was only dull green, there is suddenly a sea of yellow mustard flowers stretching to the line of trees on the horizon. The air hums with bees, and when the wind blows, the whole field ripples like a lake. Children walking to school take the narrow raised paths between the fields, and the flowers brush their shoulders and leave yellow dust on their uniforms. Farmers stand at the edges, hands on their hips, looking at the crop with the quiet satisfaction of people who know that a winter's work is nearly done. For a few weeks, the plainest village in the district becomes the most beautiful.

As used in the passage, the word 'ripples' means:

Accepted Answer

(D) moves in small waves

CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers

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