CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers: 688 Questions (Page 5)

Question 1

After reading a paragraph about three children's daily routines, Class V students complete a table showing when each child wakes up, travels to school and plays. What is the main advantage of such an information-transfer task?

Accepted Answer

(A) It shows whether students understood the text without requiring long written answers

Question 2

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Mr. Bose's shop is so small that he and one customer cannot stand in it at the same time, so customers wait on the step. Inside, the walls are covered with clocks, all ticking slightly out of time with one another, so that the room seems to whisper. He works with a glass screwed into one eye, lifting out wheels no bigger than a grain of rice with a pair of tweezers. He is never in a hurry, and he is never wrong. Once a young man brought in a wristwatch that three other shops had declared beyond repair. Mr. Bose kept it for a week, and when he handed it back it was ticking, and he refused to charge more than the price of a cup of tea.

In the passage, the phrase 'beyond repair' means:

Accepted Answer

(A) impossible to fix

Question 3

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

The bus stopped at the foot of the hill, and Class Eight climbed the last stretch on foot, up a stone path worn smooth by centuries of feet. The fort at the top was mostly ruins now: broken walls, a dry tank, arches open to the sky. Their history teacher, Mrs. Rao, did not lecture. Instead she handed each group a sheet of questions and sent them off to find the answers in the stones themselves. One group counted the steps of the watchtower; another found grooves in a doorway where a great wooden bar must once have slid. By lunchtime the children who had grumbled about the climb were arguing over where the kitchens had been.

How did Mrs. Rao teach the class at the fort?

Accepted Answer

(A) She gave groups questions to answer by exploring

Question 4

A school holds a weekly बाल सभा (children's assembly) in which children recite poems, tell stories, share news and perform short skits. In language learning, this mainly develops:

Accepted Answer

(D) Confident, creative speaking before an audience

Question 5

Consider these statements in the light of NCERT's position paper on teaching English. 1. Linguistic purism, of English or of Indian languages, must yield to a tolerance of code-switching and code-mixing if necessary. 2. Parallel texts in two languages need not be exact translations of each other. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(C) Both 1 and 2

Question 6

In 'Simon says', children do an action only when the command begins with 'Simon says', as in 'Simon says, touch your ears.' In an English class, this game mainly develops:

Accepted Answer

(A) Careful listening to and understanding of instructions

Question 7

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

The 400-metre race was the last event of sports day, and Vikram had trained for it all term. He was leading as the runners came into the final bend when Tenzin, just behind him, stumbled and fell hard on the track. Vikram heard the cry. He looked back, slowed, and then, to the astonishment of the whole school, turned and ran back to help Tenzin to his feet. By the time the two boys crossed the line together, limping and laughing, four other runners had finished ahead of them. Vikram won no medal that afternoon. But when the principal rose to give the closing speech, she spent most of it talking about a race that nobody had won.

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

Accepted Answer

(C) More Than a Medal

Question 8

The NIPUN Bharat mission, launched by the Ministry of Education in 2021, aims to ensure that every child achieves foundational literacy and numeracy by the end of:

Accepted Answer

(A) Grade 3, by 2026-27

Question 9

A teacher has each Class III child read an unfamiliar, grade-level Hindi passage aloud for one minute and counts the words read correctly. This check mainly measures:

Accepted Answer

(B) Reading fluency, chiefly the accuracy and speed of reading aloud

Question 10

Asked to write a summary of a story, a Class VI student copies out the first sentence of every paragraph. What should the teacher help her learn next?

Accepted Answer

(B) To pick out the main ideas, drop minor details and put them briefly in her own words

Question 11

Instead of only marks, a Class III report card says: 'Reads short stories with expression; needs help to write complete sentences.' What is the main benefit of such descriptive reporting?

Accepted Answer

(B) It tells parents and the child what has been achieved and what to work on next

Question 12

Which of the following statements about languages and dialects is NOT accepted in linguistics?

Accepted Answer

(A) Dialects are incorrect, ungrammatical forms of the standard language

Question 13

A teacher who follows the constructivist approach to language teaching would most likely:

Accepted Answer

(D) Let children build their own meaning of a text through discussion, prediction and their experiences

Question 14

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Shout loudly towards a distant hill or into a deep well, and a moment later your own voice may come back to you. This returning sound is called an echo. Sound, like a ball thrown at a wall, bounces back when it strikes a large, hard surface. We hear the echo clearly only when the surface is far enough away for the reflected sound to reach us a little after the original has faded; if the wall is too close, the two sounds blend into one. Many bats make clever use of echoes. Flying in darkness, they send out high-pitched squeaks and listen for the sounds that bounce back from insects and branches, and in this way they locate their food and avoid obstacles.

The word 'obstacles' in the passage means

Accepted Answer

(A) things that block the way

Question 15

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

During a storm we see the flash of lightning first and hear the roll of thunder afterwards, even though both are produced at the same moment. The reason is that light travels far faster than sound. The light from the flash reaches our eyes almost instantly, while the sound takes about three seconds to cover a kilometre. By counting the seconds between the flash and the thunder, we can roughly judge how far away the storm is. If the gap grows shorter with each flash, the storm is coming closer. When the thunder follows the flash almost at once, the lightning is very near, and it is wise to stay indoors, away from tall trees and open fields.

A child sees a flash and hears the thunder six seconds later; after the next flash, the gap is only two seconds. Going by the passage, the storm is

Accepted Answer

(A) coming closer to the child

Question 16

Match the reading strategies with their descriptions: (a) Predicting (b) Visualising (c) Summarising (d) Making connections. (i) Relating the text to one's own life or other texts (ii) Forming mental pictures of what is described (iii) Using clues to guess what will happen next (iv) Stating the main points briefly in one's own words

Accepted Answer

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

Question 17

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Long before the sun clears the sea, the beach at Pallikere is crowded. The boats that went out at midnight are coming in, and the fisherwomen are waiting at the water's edge with baskets and knives. As each boat is dragged up the sand, the catch is tipped out in a silver heap, and the bargaining begins at once, loud and fast and full of laughter. Within an hour the women have sorted, bought and packed the fish into baskets of ice. Then they hoist the baskets onto their heads and set off for the town market, walking quickly in a line, their bright saris tucked up, the morning sun now full on their faces.

Which title best fits the passage?

Accepted Answer

(C) Morning on a Fishing Beach

Question 18

Reading the sentence 'हमारा मकान बड़ा है' ('Our house is big'), a Class II child reads 'मकान' (house) as 'मगर' (crocodile), guessing from the first letter. What is the best prompt from the teacher?

Accepted Answer

(C) 'Look at the whole word. Does मगर make sense in this sentence?'

Question 19

In a picture-story task in NCERT's Honeycomb, groups describe a set of pictures and build their own text. The teacher's notes add that, if necessary, children may first produce the text in their own language. What is the teacher then to do?

Accepted Answer

(A) Help them reformulate the text in English

Question 20

Meena, a Class VIII student, knows English grammar rules well, but when she speaks she pauses after almost every phrase to check a rule and keeps correcting herself mid-sentence, so her speech is halting. In Krashen's terms she is best described as a:

Accepted Answer

(A) Monitor over-user

Question 21

According to NCERT's position paper on teaching English, what largely improves the intelligibility of spoken English, as the 'accent training' of young Indians for call-centre jobs shows?

Accepted Answer

(A) Slowing down, speaking to a rhythm and articulating clearly

Question 22

In a Class III class, a child sits in a special chair and reads aloud a story she has written; classmates then say what they liked and ask her questions. This practice is known as:

Accepted Answer

(B) Author's chair

Question 23

Consider the following statements about NEP 2020. 1. Sanskrit will be offered at all levels of school and higher education as an option, including in the three-language formula. 2. Foreign languages such as Korean, Japanese, French and German will be offered at the secondary level. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(C) Both statements

Question 24

Which of the following is NOT one of the hypotheses in Stephen Krashen's theory of second language acquisition?

Accepted Answer

(B) Critical period hypothesis

Question 25

While teaching a poem, the teacher first recites it with proper rhythm, pauses and feeling before the students read it. The main purpose of this model recitation is to:

Accepted Answer

(A) Help students feel the rhythm, mood and sound of the poem

Question 26

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Packets of chips, fizzy drinks and fried snacks are bright, cheap and everywhere, and it is easy to see why children love them. They are designed to taste good. The trouble is what they leave out and what they put in. Most of them are full of salt, sugar or oil, yet offer little of the protein, vitamins and fibre that a growing body needs. A child who fills up on them may feel full while still being poorly fed. None of this means that a packet of chips at a fair is a crime. It means only that such foods should be occasional treats, while ordinary home-cooked meals of grains, pulses and vegetables do the real work of keeping us healthy.

The writer's tone towards packaged snacks is best described as

Accepted Answer

(B) balanced: fine now and then, but not as daily food

Question 27

Which of these statements is consistent with a balanced approach to early reading? 1. Phonics should be taught only through isolated drills, and stories should wait until all letters are known. 2. Phonics should be dropped entirely, since children learn to read only from whole stories.

Accepted Answer

(D) Neither 1 nor 2

Question 28

An adult who has spoken English for twenty years still says 'I am having two brothers' and this feature no longer changes despite correction. This phenomenon is called:

Accepted Answer

(D) Fossilisation

Question 29

To get Class VII students to respond to one another during discussions, rather than only to her, a teacher rearranges the desks from rows into a circle. This mainly helps because it:

Accepted Answer

(C) Lets students face and talk to each other directly

Question 30

After regular class teaching, a few Class III children still cannot read words with conjuncts (संयुक्ताक्षर) such as 'पत्ता' (leaf) and 'बच्चा' (child). In remedial teaching, the teacher should:

Accepted Answer

(A) Re-teach differently, e.g. splitting words into parts and word games with familiar words

Question 31

Which principle of language teaching is reflected in the practice of making children listen to and say new words and sentences before they are asked to read or write them?

Accepted Answer

(D) Oral work precedes written work

Question 32

Which accommodation in written tests is appropriate for a Class VII student who has been certified as having dyslexia?

Accepted Answer

(B) Extra time, and having the questions read aloud to her

Question 33

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

When children play a game of kabaddi or marbles, they are learning far more than the game itself. They must agree on rules and keep to them, even when breaking them would bring a quick win. They learn to wait for their turn, to cheer for a teammate and to accept the referee's decision. Perhaps most valuable of all, they learn how to lose. Losing a game stings, but it is a small, safe disappointment from which one soon recovers, and a child who has lost many games learns that failure is not the end of the world. These lessons in fairness, patience and grace are hard to teach from a book, but the playground teaches them every day.

The best title for the passage would be

Accepted Answer

(B) Lessons the Playground Teaches

Question 34

A Class I teacher brings lullabies, folk songs and rhymes from the children's own communities into her lessons. This mainly helps to:

Accepted Answer

(B) Connect school learning with the language and culture children bring from home

Question 35

Match the children's utterances with Halliday's functions of language. A. 'Everyone, stand in a line now!' B. 'Let's pretend this box is a car.' C. 'Hello! You are my best friend.' D. 'I am feeling very happy today!' 1. Personal 2. Regulatory 3. Imaginative 4. Interactional

Accepted Answer

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

Question 36

Asked to show where the story is written in a picture book, a four-year-old points to the picture instead of the printed words. This shows that the child is still developing:

Accepted Answer

(C) Concepts about print, such as knowing that the printed words carry the message

Question 37

In 'Please record the song' and 'I bought a new record', 'record' is stressed on the second syllable as a verb and on the first syllable as a noun. What does this show about English?

Accepted Answer

(D) Stress placement can change a word's class and meaning

Question 38

Two teachers marking the same Class VI essay give it very different marks. Which step would best make their marking more consistent?

Accepted Answer

(A) Agreeing on a rubric and marking a few sample essays together before marking the rest

Question 39

Dell Hymes criticised Chomsky's idea of competence as too narrow. A child who has learnt to say 'Aap baithiye' to her grandfather but 'Tu baith' to her younger brother shows the kind of knowledge Hymes felt it left out, namely:

Accepted Answer

(D) Knowledge of using language appropriately in social settings

Question 40

Which of the following is NOT a dictionary skill that upper primary learners need to develop?

Accepted Answer

(C) Memorising the page numbers on which common words appear

Question 41

In a class where some children hear English at home and many do not, which of the following is NOT a fair way of judging growth in spoken English?

Accepted Answer

(C) Judging each child against the fluency of children with English at home

Question 42

Zoya in Class I writes with her left hand. What should her teacher do?

Accepted Answer

(D) Let her write left-handed, helping with grip, paper slant and a seat where her elbow is free

Question 43

To check whether all 60 children in Class II can identify the first sound of words she says, a teacher has every child write the letter on a slate and hold it up at the same time. The main advantage of this is that:

Accepted Answer

(C) Every child answers, and the teacher sees at once who needs help

Question 44

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

The summer Rohan turned seven, his grandfather took him to the edge of their field with a spade and a jamun sapling no taller than the boy himself. Together they dug the hole, set the little tree in it and pressed the soil down around it with their feet. Every evening that summer Rohan carried a bucket of water to it, sometimes grumbling. The sapling grew slowly; some years it hardly seemed to grow at all. His grandfather did not live to see it bear fruit. But this June, Rohan, now a young man home from college, stood in its shade with his small nephew and watched the boy stain his fingers and lips purple with the first jamuns of the season.

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

Accepted Answer

(D) The Gift of a Jamun Tree

Question 45

A two-year-old says 'Daddy go' and 'More juice', leaving out function words such as articles and auxiliaries. Such utterances are an example of:

Accepted Answer

(A) Telegraphic speech

Question 46

According to NCF 2005, several studies have shown that bilingual proficiency is associated with:

Accepted Answer

(D) Higher cognitive growth, social tolerance, divergent thinking and scholastic achievement

Question 47

According to NCF 2005, the primary aim of the three-language formula is to:

Accepted Answer

(B) Promote multilingualism and national harmony

Question 48

Which statement correctly distinguishes a language proficiency test from an achievement test?

Accepted Answer

(B) Proficiency: general language ability, not tied to any course; achievement: learning from a course

Question 49

Consider: 1. The product approach to writing focuses mainly on the final text, often modelled on an example. 2. The process approach values planning, drafting and revising, and writers may move back and forth between these stages. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(C) Both 1 and 2

Question 50

In small groups, Class VII students take turns leading the discussion of a text, using four strategies: predicting, questioning, clarifying and summarising. This approach, developed by Palincsar and Brown, is called:

Accepted Answer

(C) Reciprocal teaching

CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers

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