CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers: 688 Questions (Page 6)

Question 1

Class VII is divided into groups of four. Each member reads a different section of a text about Pongal and then explains it to the others, so that the group can complete a chart about the whole festival. This technique is called:

Accepted Answer

(B) Jigsaw reading

Question 2

Which is the most appropriate way to assess the reading comprehension of Class VIII students?

Accepted Answer

(B) Questions on an unseen passage of suitable level

Question 3

While assessing stories written by Class VI students in a creative writing task, which aspect should carry the greatest weight?

Accepted Answer

(B) Originality of ideas and expression

Question 4

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Sana's brother promised that he would not let go of the seat. For three evenings he ran beside her down the lane behind their house, panting, one hand gripping the back of the saddle, while she wobbled and shrieked and pedalled. On the fourth evening, she called back over her shoulder to ask whether he was still holding on, and heard his voice answer from far behind. She looked round, saw him standing at the end of the lane with both hands in the air, and promptly fell into a heap of sand. She was furious for exactly one minute. Then she picked up the cycle, brushed off her knees and, without asking for anyone's help, set off again.

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

Accepted Answer

(D) at once

Question 5

Which pronunciation difficulty most clearly calls for referral to a specialist, such as a speech therapist, in addition to classroom support?

Accepted Answer

(A) Persistently unclear speech due to a defect of the speech organs, e.g. a cleft palate

Question 6

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

A musician who plays beautifully on stage has usually spent years practising scales that nobody will ever applaud. The same is true of any skill. Reading fluently, writing neatly, calculating quickly: all of these come from steady practice over time, not from a single burst of effort before an examination. Practice works best when it is regular and a little challenging. Ten minutes every day is worth more than two hours once a week, because the mind and hands keep returning to the skill before they forget it. It also helps to practise what we find difficult rather than only what we already do well. That is less pleasant, but it is where real progress lies.

In the passage, 'That' in 'That is less pleasant' refers to

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(B) practising what we find difficult

Question 7

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

When a girl goes to school, the benefits spread far beyond her own classroom. An educated girl is better able to look after her health and, later in life, the health of her family. She can read the instructions on a medicine bottle, keep accounts for a small business and understand her rights. She is more likely to send her own children to school, so that the gain passes from one generation to the next. Above all, education allows her to discover her talents and choose her own path. For all these reasons, keeping girls in school, and making schools safe and welcoming for them, is one of the wisest investments any community can make.

The central idea of the passage is that

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(C) educating girls benefits them, their families and the whole community

Question 8

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

We tend to think of time in large pieces: a day, a week, a holiday. Yet much of life is made of small pieces that slip away unnoticed: ten minutes waiting for a bus, fifteen minutes before dinner, a quarter of an hour after waking. Each seems too short for anything worthwhile. But ten minutes a day spent reading adds up to more than sixty hours in a year, enough to finish many books. Ten minutes of practice on a musical instrument, or of learning new words in another language, can bring surprising progress over months. Those who learn to use these scraps of time often accomplish more than those who wait for long, free afternoons that seldom come.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

Accepted Answer

(A) Short spells of time, used regularly, can lead to big results

Question 9

A Class VI learner who does not know the English word 'ladder' says, 'the thing you climb to go up on the roof', and shows the climbing with her hands. Among the components of communicative competence, this mainly shows her:

Accepted Answer

(D) Strategic competence

Question 10

Match the oral activities with their descriptions. A. Debate B. Extempore C. Interview D. Chain story. 1. Speaking on a topic given on the spot, with only a minute or two to prepare 2. Asking a person prepared questions to collect information 3. Each child in turn adds a sentence that follows from the previous one 4. Speaking for or against a motion

Accepted Answer

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

Question 11

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

In many old villages the pond was once the heart of daily life. Cattle drank from it, clothes were washed beside it, and children learned to swim in it. But the pond did a quieter job as well. During the rains it collected water that would otherwise have run off, and over the following months much of that water soaked slowly into the ground, raising the level of water in the wells around it. When ponds are filled with earth to make room for buildings, or choked with rubbish, the wells nearby often begin to dry up. Reviving a neglected pond, by cleaning it and clearing the channels that feed it, can bring a whole village's water back to life.

The most suitable title for the passage is

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(A) The Village Pond: A Hidden Store of Water

Question 12

In M.A.K. Halliday's functional view, grammar is best understood as:

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(D) A resource for making meaning, whose choices depend on purpose and context

Question 13

In a cloze test, the learner is required to:

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(C) Fill in words that have been deleted at regular intervals from a passage

Question 14

A Class I teacher has each child find her own name card on a table every morning and put it on the attendance chart. What does this routine mainly do for early literacy?

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(A) Gives daily, meaningful practice in recognising her own name and noticing its letters

Question 15

Match each sentence with the type of context clue it gives for the word in capitals. A. 'A HERBIVORE is an animal that eats only plants.' B. 'Unlike his TIMID brother, Raju was bold.' C. 'REPTILES such as snakes and lizards lay eggs.' D. 'She was FATIGUED, that is, very tired, after the race.' 1. Example 2. Contrast 3. Definition 4. Synonym or restatement

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Fatima had spent three weekends building a model of a water wheel from ice-cream sticks and a plastic bottle. At home it had turned beautifully under the kitchen tap. At the science fair, however, the jug of water she poured over it made the wheel shudder and stop. A crowd of younger children had gathered, and she felt her face burn. Instead of hiding the model, she asked the children what they thought had gone wrong. One small girl pointed out that the water was falling on the middle of the wheel, not on the ends of the paddles. Fatima tilted the jug, poured again, and the wheel spun. When the judges arrived, she told them the whole story, including the part about the small girl.

What does Fatima's telling the judges 'the whole story' show about her?

Accepted Answer

(B) She was honest and gave credit to the girl who helped

Question 17

Which of the following is LEAST suited to being taught through Total Physical Response?

Accepted Answer

(C) Abstract nouns such as 'honesty' and 'freedom'

Question 18

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Most of us know the feeling of putting off a task we do not enjoy. We tell ourselves that we will start the essay tomorrow, or tidy the cupboard at the weekend, and tomorrow brings a fresh excuse. This habit of delay is called procrastination, and its cost grows quietly. The unfinished task hangs over us, spoiling our free time with a faint sense of guilt, and when it can be postponed no longer, we rush it and do it badly. One simple cure is to begin with just five minutes. Starting is usually the hardest part; once we have begun, we often find that the task is less unpleasant than we feared.

The word 'postponed' in the passage means

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(C) put off until a later time

Question 19

Which of the following reading tasks gives Class IV children the most genuine purpose for reading?

Accepted Answer

(C) Reading the instructions in a booklet in order to make a paper kite in class

Question 20

Arjun in Class V has dysgraphia: his ideas are good, but his writing is slow and hard to read. Which support is appropriate?

Accepted Answer

(D) Other ways to show learning, such as oral answers or typing, and aids like pencil grips

Question 21

Using role cards, pairs in Class VII act out a scene in which a customer returns a faulty torch to a shopkeeper. What is the main language-learning value of such role play?

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(A) Students safely use language for real social purposes, such as complaining and apologising

Question 22

Which storytelling practice is most effective with young children?

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(A) Using voice changes and gestures, and pausing to ask children what might happen next

Question 23

To assess the reading aloud of 40 children quickly on fixed points (clear pronunciation, pausing at punctuation, expression), a teacher lists these points and marks 'yes' or 'no' against each for every child. This tool is a:

Accepted Answer

(A) Checklist

Question 24

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

In early summer, when the snow has melted from the high meadows, Bashir leaves his village with three hundred sheep and goats and walks for nine days to reach the grass above the tree line. He carries little: a blanket, a pot, flour, salt and a flute. His two big dogs do most of the work, circling the flock and turning back any sheep that wanders towards the edge of a slope. At night the animals are herded into a ring of stones, and the dogs lie at the gap. Bashir plays his flute for a while before sleeping. He says the sheep settle sooner when they hear it; his brother laughs at this, but Bashir has never once seen the flock restless on a night when the flute was played.

According to the passage, what do Bashir's dogs do during the day?

Accepted Answer

(D) Turn back sheep that stray from the flock

Question 25

Some parents object that stories with talking animals and magic in the reading corner are 'untrue' and should be removed. Which view is consistent with sound pedagogy?

Accepted Answer

(A) Such stories nurture imagination and feelings and are a valuable part of children's literature

Question 26

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Electricity seems to arrive in our homes as if by magic, at the flick of a switch. In fact, most of it is produced in large power stations, many of which burn coal and release smoke into the air. Every unit we use, therefore, has a cost that does not appear on the bill. Saving electricity is one of the easiest ways for a family to lessen this burden on the environment. Lights and fans can be switched off when a room is empty. Daylight can be used instead of lamps during the day. Appliances left on standby still draw a little power, so it helps to turn them off at the plug. None of these steps is difficult; each simply requires a little attention.

The word 'lessen' in the passage means

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(B) to make smaller

Question 27

A teacher with 55 students wants to assess speaking regularly as part of continuous assessment. Which plan is most practical and fair?

Accepted Answer

(A) Observing a few children each day during pair and group work, covering everyone in a few weeks

Question 28

Bruner described three modes in which children represent their knowledge. Language belongs mainly to which mode?

Accepted Answer

(D) Symbolic

Question 29

Which of the following is NOT a feature of scaffolding in a language class?

Accepted Answer

(C) The same level of support continues even after the learner can manage alone

Question 30

A Class VII student scores full marks in grammar exercises on tenses but cannot hold a simple conversation in English about his weekend. Consider: 1. Knowing grammar rules guarantees the ability to use a language. 2. The ability to communicate develops mainly through meaningful use of the language. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(B) Only 2

Question 31

Which hypothesis of Krashen states that consciously learnt rules act only as an editor that checks and corrects the output produced by the acquired system?

Accepted Answer

(C) Monitor hypothesis

Question 32

In an unseen-passage (अपठित गद्यांश) test, students are asked to suggest a suitable title (शीर्षक) for the passage. This mainly assesses their ability to:

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(C) Grasp the central idea of the passage

Question 33

A child from a tribal community enters Class I speaking only her home language, which differs from the school language. The most appropriate strategy for her teacher is to:

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(D) Use her home language as a bridge while gradually introducing the school language

Question 34

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

When the parts for the annual day play were given out, Kabir was handed the role of a tree. He had no lines at all. All he had to do was stand at the back of the stage with his arms spread like branches while the others spoke. His friends teased him, and for a day he sulked. Then he began to practise. He watched the old peepal in the school yard, noticed how its branches swayed and how birds settled on it, and stood in front of the mirror at home, swaying gently. On the evening of the show, a small boy in the front row pointed at the stage and whispered loudly to his mother, 'Look, the tree is breathing!' Kabir heard it, and stood a little taller.

What does the small boy's remark show?

Accepted Answer

(B) Kabir had made even a silent role look alive

Question 35

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Almost every child in Kalyanpur learnt to swim in the river, and most of them learnt from old Dinu Kaka. His method never changed. He would wade out until the water reached his chest, hold the child flat on the surface with one broad hand beneath, and tell them to kick. Day after day he did this, talking all the while about fish, floods and his own boyhood. Then one day, in the middle of a story, he would quietly take his hand away. Most children swam on for several strokes before they realised that nobody was holding them. By then, Dinu Kaka liked to say, it was too late to sink, because they already knew how not to.

Why did Dinu Kaka keep talking while he held the children in the water?

Accepted Answer

(D) To relax them so they would not notice him letting go

Question 36

A visiting officer calls a Class III language period 'too noisy' because children are discussing a picture in small groups. Consider: 1. Purposeful talk in groups supports children's language development. 2. A silent class is always a sign that learning is taking place. 3. Group discussion gives each child more chances to speak than whole-class teaching. Which are correct?

Accepted Answer

(C) 1 and 3 only

Question 37

Some Class IV children say 'सेर' for 'शेर' (lion) and 'साम' for 'शाम' (evening) because their home dialect does not separate श and स. What should the teacher do?

Accepted Answer

(B) Model both sounds clearly and practise pairs such as शेर–सेर and शाल–साल in meaningful sentences

Question 38

A five-year-old tells her teacher about the mela she visited last week and what she plans to buy at next year's mela. This ability of human language to refer to things that are not present here and now is called:

Accepted Answer

(B) Displacement

Question 39

Hindi places the verb after the object ('Ravi ne aam khaya'), while English places it before ('Ravi ate a mango'). In Chomsky's later 'principles and parameters' view, this difference is best explained as:

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(C) A parameter of universal grammar that the child sets from the language she hears

Question 40

Sameer in Class II has cerebral palsy. He understands stories well but cannot speak clearly. Which practice best helps him take part in language activities?

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(C) Giving him a picture or word board to point to, and enough time to respond

Question 41

In an open-book test in Class VIII, students may use their textbook. Which kind of question makes such a test worthwhile?

Accepted Answer

(B) Questions that ask students to interpret, compare or apply ideas from the lesson

Question 42

Which statement correctly distinguishes phonological awareness from phonics?

Accepted Answer

(B) Phonological awareness concerns sounds in spoken words; phonics links those sounds to letters

Question 43

Consider the following statements about child-directed speech (motherese). 1. Its slow pace, simple sentences and exaggerated intonation can make speech easier for infants to process. 2. Children cannot acquire language unless adults speak to them in this special way. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(A) 1 only

Question 44

To find out whether a Class I child can actually read Hindi, which task is most appropriate?

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(C) Asking her to read familiar words and short sentences, such as labels and captions

Question 45

Which of the following statements about listening and speaking in language development is correct?

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(D) Listening and speaking are the foundation on which reading and writing are built

Question 46

Several Class I children hold the pencil awkwardly and tire quickly when they write. Which activities will best prepare them for writing?

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(B) Clay modelling, paper tearing, bead threading and pattern drawing to build hand control

Question 47

In teaching English pronunciation, which of the following is a suprasegmental feature rather than an individual sound?

Accepted Answer

(D) Intonation, the rise and fall of the voice

Question 48

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

We are often told to reduce, reuse and recycle, and the three words are usually spoken as if they were equally important. They are not. Recycling is useful, but it still needs energy, water and transport, and many things can be recycled only a few times before they become waste anyway. Reusing is better: a glass jar that becomes a pencil holder saves the energy of making anything new. Best of all is reducing, because a thing that is never bought never needs to be thrown away. Before purchasing something, then, it is worth asking whether we truly need it. That single question does more for the earth than the most efficient recycling plant.

According to the writer, which of the three habits matters most?

Accepted Answer

(B) Buying fewer things in the first place

Question 49

Which of the following does NEP 2020 propose for students with hearing impairment?

Accepted Answer

(A) Standardising Indian Sign Language nationwide and developing curriculum materials in it

Question 50

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

A library book is shared property. Before it reached your hands, many other readers held it, and after you return it, many more will. This simple fact brings a responsibility with it. Pages should not be folded down to mark a place; a strip of paper does the job without harm. Notes and underlining belong in one's own notebook, not in the margins of a book that others will read. Books should be kept away from food, water and the reach of very young brothers and sisters. Above all, they should be returned on time, because someone else may be waiting for them. Treating a borrowed book with care is a way of respecting every reader who comes after us.

In the passage, 'This simple fact' refers to the fact that

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(C) many readers share the same library book

CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers

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