CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers: 688 Questions (Page 2)

Question 1

Chomsky distinguished between linguistic competence and linguistic performance. 'Competence' refers to:

Accepted Answer

(D) The speaker's underlying, largely unconscious knowledge of the rules of the language

Question 2

If children are born with a natural capacity for language, as Chomsky argued, which of the following classroom practices is LEAST consistent with that view?

Accepted Answer

(B) Teaching all the grammar rules before children are allowed to use the language

Question 3

Fatima in Class IV has low vision. Which of the following arrangements is NOT appropriate for her in the language class?

Accepted Answer

(D) Excusing her from reading so that her eyes are not strained

Question 4

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

On winter mornings the fog in Kishanpur is so thick that the houses across the lane disappear. Sounds travel strangely in it. A rooster seems to crow from somewhere overhead, and a cough from the tea stall sounds as if it came from next door. Out of this white silence, at exactly six o'clock, comes the rattle of Bhola's bicycle, loaded with two big milk cans. Nobody can see him until he is at the gate, his scarf wound twice around his head and his moustache beaded with drops of mist. He has not missed a single morning in eleven winters. People in the lane say they could set their clocks by him, and some of them, they admit, actually do.

Which title best suits the passage?

Accepted Answer

(A) Bhola, the Milkman of the Fog

Question 5

Consider the following statements about teaching-learning material (TLM) in a language class. 1. Low-cost materials made from local resources, often with the children, can be as effective as bought ones. 2. TLM helps most when children handle and use it, not when it is only displayed. 3. TLM is needed only in Classes I and II. Which are correct?

Accepted Answer

(A) Only 1 and 2

Question 6

Class VI students read 'jumped' as 'jump-ed' and 'played' as 'play-ed'. What should the teacher help them notice?

Accepted Answer

(B) -ed is /t/, /d/ or /ɪd/, depending on the preceding sound: jumped, played, wanted

Question 7

Three four-year-olds play side by side in a sand pit. Each talks aloud about what he or she is building, but none of them responds to what the others say. Piaget called this kind of talk:

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(A) Collective monologue

Question 8

Consider the following statements about questioning in a language class. 1. Waiting a few seconds after asking a question tends to increase the number and quality of students' answers. 2. Calling on the first student who raises a hand is the best way to involve the whole class. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(A) Only 1

Question 9

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Kapila the cow had been restless since the afternoon, and by nightfall the whole Shinde family was gathered in the cattle shed with a lantern. Grandfather sat on an upturned bucket, calm and watchful, telling the children to keep back and keep quiet. A little before midnight, the calf was born, wet and folded up like a parcel. For a while it lay still. Then it shook its head, tried to stand, collapsed, tried again and finally swayed upright on four legs that seemed far too long for it. Kapila licked it all over while it searched blindly for milk. The children, who had been told to go to bed hours earlier, were allowed to stay and name it.

The most suitable title for the passage would be:

Accepted Answer

(D) A Calf Is Born at Midnight

Question 10

Before writing an essay on 'My Village', students draw a web with 'My Village' in the centre and add ideas about its people, festivals and places around it. Which stage of process writing is this?

Accepted Answer

(D) Pre-writing

Question 11

A Class VIII student's essays contain almost no errors in relative clauses, but the teacher notices that she never writes sentences with 'who', 'which' or 'whose' and uses only short, simple sentences. What is the most likely explanation?

Accepted Answer

(B) She avoids a difficult structure, so the lack of errors does not show mastery

Question 12

Arrange these stages of early writing development in the usual order: (A) Invented spelling (B) Scribbling (C) Conventional spelling (D) Letter-like shapes and strings of random letters

Accepted Answer

(B) B, D, A, C

Question 13

NEP 2020 recommends exposing children to different languages from the Foundational Stage onwards, with a particular emphasis on the mother tongue. Which reason does it give?

Accepted Answer

(D) Children pick up languages fast between ages 2 and 8, and multilingualism brings cognitive benefits

Question 14

Vygotsky described language as the most important ________ through which a child's thinking is mediated and higher mental functions develop.

Accepted Answer

(D) Psychological (cultural) tool

Question 15

After hearing the story of the thirsty crow, Class I children act it out, one child as the crow and others as the pot and the pebbles, with simple lines. Which of the following is NOT a likely benefit of this dramatisation?

Accepted Answer

(D) Every child learns to decode the written text of the story accurately

Question 16

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Imagine sitting in a class where the teacher speaks a language you barely know. You might copy the words on the board, but most of the lesson would pass over your head, and you would soon stop trying. Many young children face exactly this when they start school in a language that is not spoken at home. A child who is taught first in the language of her home can put all her energy into understanding ideas, instead of struggling with words. Once she can read and think confidently, learning a second and third language becomes much easier, because she can build on a firm foundation. A strong home language is thus not an obstacle to learning other languages but a help.

Which of the following statements would the writer most likely agree with?

Accepted Answer

(A) Being taught first in the home language helps children learn other languages later

Question 17

The contrastive analysis hypothesis, associated with Robert Lado, predicted that a learner's main difficulties in a second language would arise from:

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(C) Differences between the first and the second language

Question 18

A teacher reads a short paragraph twice at normal speed. Students note key words, then work in groups to rebuild the text as closely as they can in correct English and compare their version with the original. This technique is called:

Accepted Answer

(C) Dictogloss

Question 19

According to NCERT's position paper on teaching English, what should all evaluation ultimately aim at, if learners are to become lifelong learners?

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(B) Self-evaluation, with the teacher as a sympathetic facilitator

Question 20

A teacher sets up four corners in her room: a listening corner with recorded stories, a reading corner, a writing table and a word-game corner. Groups move from one to the next. This arrangement mainly helps her to:

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(B) Keep the other groups purposefully busy while she works closely with one group

Question 21

According to the National Curriculum Framework 2005, the medium of instruction at the primary stage should ideally be:

Accepted Answer

(C) The child's mother tongue or home language

Question 22

Many consonants form a half letter by dropping their vertical stroke (पाई), as प does in 'प्यार' (love). Which of these consonants has no पाई, so that the Central Hindi Directorate standard writes its conjuncts with a हल् चिह्न, as in 'छुट्‌टी' (holiday)?

Accepted Answer

(D) ट

Question 23

A Class II child often asks the teacher to repeat, watches her lips closely, does not respond when called from behind and mispronounces many sounds. The most appropriate first step for the teacher is to:

Accepted Answer

(D) Seat the child near her, face the child while speaking, and suggest a hearing check

Question 24

Class IV children often sound the 'k' in 'knife' and the 'b' in 'lamb'. Which way of handling silent letters is most helpful?

Accepted Answer

(C) Grouping words by pattern, e.g. know, knee, knock or comb, thumb, climb, and using them

Question 25

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

In March a pair of sparrows began carrying straw into the gap above the ceiling fan in the Joshi family's front room. Mr. Joshi grumbled about the mess on the floor and talked of blocking the gap. His wife said nothing but quietly switched off the fan and moved the sofa so that nobody would sit under the nest. Soon the room was full of anxious chirping. The children learnt to tiptoe, and visitors were taken to the other room. One morning three tiny heads, all beak and fluff, appeared over the edge of the straw. Even Mr. Joshi stood on a chair to look, and that evening it was he who swept up the fallen straw without being asked.

How did Mr. Joshi's attitude to the sparrows' nest change in the passage?

Accepted Answer

(D) From annoyance to affection

Question 26

A newly posted teacher does not understand some words of the local dialect that her Class II pupils use. What should she do?

Accepted Answer

(C) Ask the children to teach her these words, showing that their language is valued

Question 27

A teacher writes several sentences on the board such as 'She plays', 'He runs', 'It rains', and asks the students to notice the pattern and work out the rule for the third-person singular verb. This is an example of:

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(C) Inductive teaching of grammar

Question 28

Sunil in Class V stammers, especially when he is anxious. Which of the following is NOT advisable for his teacher?

Accepted Answer

(D) Finishing his words for him to save time and spare him embarrassment

Question 29

Under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016, which of the following is NOT listed as a specific learning disability?

Accepted Answer

(A) Autism spectrum disorder

Question 30

NCERT has replaced its NCF 2005 English books with new ones. Which is the new English textbook for Classes VI to VIII, developed in line with NEP 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE) 2023?

Accepted Answer

(D) Poorvi

Question 31

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Arohi joined Class Six in the middle of the year, after her family moved from Assam. On the first day she sat alone at lunch, and when the teacher asked her a question, the class giggled at her accent. She stopped raising her hand. Then, in the art period, the teacher asked everyone to draw their home. Arohi drew a house on stilts above a wide river, with a boat tied to one of the posts. The girl beside her, Neha, stared at it and asked why the house was standing on legs. Arohi explained about the floods that came each year. By the end of the period, four children were crowded round her desk, and the next day Neha saved her a seat at lunch.

What helped Arohi begin to make friends?

Accepted Answer

(D) Her drawing made others curious about her home

Question 32

Which arrangement of a Class II reading corner is most likely to make children pick up books on their own?

Accepted Answer

(A) Books with covers facing out on low shelves or strings, changed from time to time

Question 33

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

For the whole of March, the Mishra house became the quietest house in the lane. Didi had her Class Twelve board exams, and everyone else made their own small sacrifices. The television stayed off. Father read the news on his phone instead of listening to it aloud. Little Tinku, who loved to practise on his toy drum, carried it to his friend's house each evening. Mother woke at five to make Didi's tea and sat with her own book in the next room, turning the pages very carefully. Didi noticed all of it, though she said nothing. On the day of her last exam, she came home with a box of sweets and a brand-new pair of drumsticks.

Why did Didi bring home a new pair of drumsticks?

Accepted Answer

(C) To thank Tinku for keeping quiet during her exams

Question 34

A teacher often mocks the way a child speaks at home, calling it 'gaonwali bhasha'. Why is such behaviour especially harmful, according to the view of language in NCF 2005?

Accepted Answer

(D) A child's language is tied to her identity, so rejecting it hurts her self-esteem and learning

Question 35

The vowels in 'मैं' (I) and 'में' (in) are nasalised, yet they are written with a dot (ं) rather than a chandrabindu (ँ). Why?

Accepted Answer

(C) A मात्रा above the headline leaves no room, so chandrabindu is written as a dot

Question 36

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Raju's day begins at half past four, when the bundles of newspapers are thrown down from the van at the corner of Market Road. He folds sixty papers, loads them onto the carrier of his bicycle, and rides through the sleeping colony, tossing each one onto the right verandah without slowing down. He has learnt which houses want the Hindi paper and which the English, and which dog must be greeted by name before he can open the gate. By seven he is home, where his mother has hot tea ready, and by eight he is in his school uniform, his hair still wet, sitting in the front row of Class Nine. He wants, he says, to be the one who writes the news one day, not just the one who delivers it.

What does Raju hope to do one day?

Accepted Answer

(C) Become someone who writes the news

Question 37

A student who migrated two years ago chats fluently with friends in the school language but struggles to understand textbook explanations and write answers in it. According to Cummins, she has developed:

Accepted Answer

(B) BICS but not CALP

Question 38

For her Class IV reading corner, a teacher chooses some stories set in village life like her pupils' own and others about children in very different places and cultures. The main idea behind this mix is that literature should:

Accepted Answer

(A) Mirror children's own lives and also open windows onto other lives

Question 39

Which of the following is NOT a sound reason for using children's literature in the language classroom?

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(C) It provides fixed answers that children can memorise for examinations

Question 40

After a slow start in which she added only a few new words each month, a toddler suddenly begins to learn and use new words very rapidly, asking 'Yeh kya hai?' about everything. This phase is commonly called the:

Accepted Answer

(D) Vocabulary spurt (naming explosion)

Question 41

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

In the weeks before the spring fair, Kamla's courtyard fills with small clay creatures. She shapes them from the fine grey clay of the river bank: elephants with raised trunks, parrots, bullock carts with wheels that really turn, and fat little drummers with their cheeks puffed out. Her grandchildren are allowed to help, and their animals, lopsided and lumpy, are dried and painted alongside hers. When the colours have set, everything goes into baskets lined with straw. At the fair, buyers often reach past Kamla's neat parrots for a three-legged elephant made by her youngest grandson, and she sells it to them with a perfectly straight face and a twinkle in her eye.

The best title for the passage would be:

Accepted Answer

(A) Kamla's Clay Toys

Question 42

A Class V child reads at the level expected in Class II. What is the most appropriate approach for the teacher?

Accepted Answer

(B) Start with graded texts at her current level and move up step by step, keeping her in her class

Question 43

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

The puppy had been crying under the culvert since the storm. Priya and her brother Arjun found it on their way back from tuition, wet, shivering and too frightened to come out. Arjun lay flat on the muddy ground and held out a piece of his biscuit, but the puppy only shrank further into the dark. Priya told him to stop reaching and simply wait. They sat beside the culvert for nearly half an hour, talking softly to each other and not looking at the opening. At last a small black nose appeared, then two paws. When their mother came looking for them at dusk, she found them walking home very slowly, because the puppy kept stopping to sniff their heels.

In the sentence 'They sat beside the culvert for nearly half an hour', who does 'They' refer to?

Accepted Answer

(A) Priya and Arjun

Question 44

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

For thirty years Tashi carried the mail to the hamlets above Sonbari, climbing paths so steep that even mules refused them in winter. He knew every house, and many people who could not read waited for him to read their letters aloud. He read slowly, leaving out nothing, and when the news was sad he sat with the family until the tea had been drunk. Letters are fewer now; most news arrives by telephone. Yet when Tashi retired last spring, people from eleven hamlets walked down to the post office with white scarves and dried apricots, and an old woman who had never written a letter in her life asked a schoolboy to write one for her, thanking him.

The writer's main purpose in the passage is to:

Accepted Answer

(B) show how a postman's kindness made him dear to people

Question 45

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

The skin is the largest organ of the body, and it does far more than hold us together. It is a waterproof coat that keeps germs out and keeps the body's water in. It is also a sense organ, full of nerve endings that tell us when something is hot, cold, sharp or soft. Perhaps its cleverest work is cooling. On a hot day, or after a game of football, glands in the skin release sweat. As this sweat dries on the surface, it carries heat away from the body, much as water drying from a clay pot keeps the water inside cool. That is why we feel tired and overheated faster when the air is so damp that sweat will not dry.

It can be inferred from the passage that a person who cannot sweat properly would

Accepted Answer

(D) find it hard to cool down on a hot day

Question 46

In a school, library books are kept locked in a cupboard so that they are not torn or lost, and children rarely get to touch them. What should the language teacher advocate?

Accepted Answer

(D) Make the books freely available to handle, choose and borrow, accepting some wear and tear

Question 47

Without showing any letters, a teacher plays oral games in which children clap the syllables in their names and find words that rhyme with 'mor' (peacock), such as 'chor' and 'shor'. These games mainly develop:

Accepted Answer

(D) Phonological awareness

Question 48

Match the listening tasks with the sub-skills they mainly practise. A. Saying in one sentence what a radio talk was mainly about B. Noting only tomorrow's temperature from a weather report C. Working out from the speaker's tone that she is annoyed D. Jotting down key words while the teacher explains. 1. Listening for specific information 2. Note-taking 3. Listening for gist 4. Inferring attitude

Accepted Answer

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

Question 49

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

On Mrs. D'Souza's last day before retirement, the students of Class Ten were supposed to give a short speech and present a bouquet. Instead, one by one, without any plan, they stood up and recited the poems she had made them learn by heart over the years: in Class Six, in Class Seven, in Class Eight. Some forgot lines and others prompted them from the back. Mrs. D'Souza, who had always said that a poem learnt by heart was a friend for life, sat very straight in her chair with her hands folded in her lap. She did not interrupt once. When the last poem ended, she stood, opened her mouth to speak, closed it again, and simply nodded to them.

Why did Mrs. D'Souza close her mouth again without speaking?

Accepted Answer

(A) She was too moved to find any words

Question 50

At the beginning of the session a teacher gives a short test to find out which students have difficulty with specific sounds, sight words and sentence structures, so that she can plan support. This is a/an:

Accepted Answer

(C) Diagnostic test

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