CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers: 688 Questions (Page 7)

Question 1

Tongue twisters such as 'She sells sea shells on the sea shore' or 'kachcha papad, pakka papad' are used in a language class mainly to:

Accepted Answer

(A) Practise pronunciation of similar sounds in a playful way

Question 2

Consider the following statements about children's self-directed talk. 1. Piaget saw such egocentric speech as a sign of the young child's cognitive immaturity. 2. Vygotsky saw such private speech as turning into inner speech that guides thinking. 3. Both Piaget and Vygotsky held that it plays no role in development. Which of these are correct?

Accepted Answer

(A) 1 and 2 only

Question 3

What does 'NIPUN' stand for in NIPUN Bharat, the national mission on foundational literacy and numeracy?

Accepted Answer

(D) National Initiative for Proficiency in reading with Understanding and Numeracy

Question 4

Which of the following is a referential question, one to which the teacher does not already know the answer and which invites genuine communication?

Accepted Answer

(B) 'What did you do last Sunday?'

Question 5

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

A mobile phone can be a wonderful servant. It lets a child call home from a distant place, look up the meaning of a word, or video-chat with a grandparent in another city. But it can also become a demanding master. Games and videos are designed to be hard to put down, and an hour can disappear in what feels like minutes. Many people now reach for their phones without thinking, even in the middle of a conversation with someone sitting beside them. The phone itself is neither good nor bad. What matters is who is in control. Setting limits, such as no phones at meals or after a certain hour, helps keep it in its proper place.

What does the writer mean by saying that a phone can become 'a demanding master'?

Accepted Answer

(A) It can start to control how people spend their time

Question 6

Arrange the following stages of early language development in the correct order: (A) Telegraphic stage (B) Cooing (C) Holophrastic stage (D) Babbling

Accepted Answer

(C) B, D, C, A

Question 7

Which of the following best reflects the spirit of continuous and comprehensive evaluation in language?

Accepted Answer

(D) Ongoing assessment of all four skills through observation, projects, oral work and portfolios

Question 8

A Class VI student points to each word with his finger and moves his lips while reading silently, so he reads very slowly. How should the teacher help him?

Accepted Answer

(B) Give him easy, interesting texts and encourage reading in phrases rather than word by word

Question 9

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

On summer nights, when the rooms were too hot for sleep, the whole family carried their cots up to the roof. Dadi always took the cot in the middle, and the children argued over who would lie next to her. Once the lanterns were out and the stars had come up thick and close, she began. Her stories were never quite the same twice. A clever crow might become a clever sparrow; a king might lose his crown in one telling and his shoes in the next. The children noticed, of course, but they never corrected her. They had learnt that the changes were part of the pleasure, and they listened as if each tale were brand new.

In the sentence 'They had learnt that the changes were part of the pleasure', who does 'They' refer to?

Accepted Answer

(A) The children listening to Dadi

Question 10

In Class VI stories, a teacher finds that many children write colloquial forms such as 'मेरे को भूख लगी' instead of the standard 'मुझे भूख लगी' ('I am hungry'). Which is the most effective way to take up this grammar point?

Accepted Answer

(A) Use such sentences from their writing, without names, for the class to compare with standard forms

Question 11

Jerome Bruner argued that Chomsky's LAD needs to be complemented by the support adults give children through routines, games and shared attention. He called this support the:

Accepted Answer

(C) Language Acquisition Support System (LASS)

Question 12

Every composition Pooja in Class V gets back is covered with red marks for every error, and she has stopped wanting to write. Which approach to correction would serve her better?

Accepted Answer

(B) Focusing on one or two key error patterns at a time, and noting what she did well

Question 13

Consider these statements. 1. Picture books are useful only for children who cannot yet read words. 2. The teacher's notes in NCERT's Honeycomb describe the illustrations in its lessons as mainly decoration. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(D) Neither 1 nor 2

Question 14

Which question will best develop Class VIII students' appreciation (सौंदर्य-बोध) of a poem?

Accepted Answer

(C) 'Which image in the poem struck you most, and why?'

Question 15

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

When we sit down to a plate of rice and dal, we rarely think of the long journey the food has made. Months earlier, a farmer ploughed the field, sowed the seed and watched the sky anxiously for rain. He weeded the crop under a hot sun, guarded it from birds and pests, and finally harvested it with aching back and hands. After that came threshing, storing, transporting and selling, each step involving the labour of many people. The food reached our plate only because all of them did their work. Remembering this journey might make us less willing to leave food uneaten or to throw it away.

What does the writer suggest about wasting food?

Accepted Answer

(D) It shows little regard for the labour of many people

Question 16

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Water that looks clear is not always safe to drink. It may carry germs too small to be seen with the naked eye, and these can cause illnesses such as typhoid and cholera. Fortunately, there are simple ways to make water safer. Boiling it for a few minutes kills most germs. Filtering it through a clean cloth removes dirt and some larger organisms, though not all germs. Once the water is clean, it must be kept that way. It should be stored in a covered vessel and taken out with a long-handled ladle rather than by dipping in a cup held in the hand. These habits cost little, but they protect a family from some of the most common illnesses.

In the second sentence of the passage, the word 'these' refers to

Accepted Answer

(C) tiny germs carried in the water

Question 17

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

A town would fall into chaos within days if its sweepers, plumbers, electricians and drivers all stayed at home. Yet these workers are often treated with less respect than people who sit at desks. This is a strange way of thinking. Work done with the hands requires skill, strength and care, and it meets needs that no one can do without. A clean street, a repaired pipe and a bus that runs on time make everyone's life possible. Every honest occupation deserves respect, and the measure of a worker should be how well and how honestly the work is done, not whether it leaves the hands clean. A society that understands this is both fairer and stronger.

Which of the following would be the most suitable title for the passage?

Accepted Answer

(B) The Dignity of Every Honest Job

Question 18

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

When the last sheaves of paddy have been cut and carried home, the whole village prepares for the harvest festival. Houses are swept and their walls freshly plastered with mud; patterns of rice flour are drawn at every doorstep before dawn. New rice is cooked with jaggery and milk in clay pots in the open courtyards, and families watch eagerly for the moment it boils over, which is taken as a sign of plenty. The cattle are bathed, their horns painted and hung with bells. In the evening, neighbours walk from house to house, sharing food, and the old quarrels of the year seem, for one day at least, to be forgotten.

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

Accepted Answer

(A) describe how a village celebrates its harvest

Question 19

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Money that is not spent today can be saved for tomorrow, but time cannot. Every person, rich or poor, receives exactly the same twenty-four hours each day, and whatever part of them is not used is lost for ever. No one can borrow an hour from a friend or buy back yesterday. This makes time, in one sense, the most equal of all gifts and also the most precious. What separates people is not how much time they have but how they use it. A student who understands this begins to see each day not as something to be got through, but as a fresh supply to be spent with care.

Which title best captures the main idea of the passage?

Accepted Answer

(B) Time: The Gift That Cannot Be Saved

Question 20

Match the conjuncts (संयुक्ताक्षर) with the letters that form them. A. क्ष B. त्र C. ज्ञ D. श्र. 1. त् + र 2. क् + ष 3. श् + र 4. ज् + ञ

Accepted Answer

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

Question 21

Consider these statements about English spelling and sound. 1. English uses 26 letters to represent many more sounds. 2. Many spellings became fixed while pronunciation went on changing. 3. Because English spelling is irregular, phonics should not be taught at all. Which are correct?

Accepted Answer

(B) 1 and 2 only

Question 22

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Wind is simply air on the move, and the sun is what sets it moving. When the sun heats the ground, the air just above it warms up, becomes lighter and rises. Cooler air from nearby rushes in to take its place, and this flow of air is what we feel as wind. People living by the sea notice this every day. In the daytime the land heats up faster than the water, so a cool breeze blows from the sea towards the land. At night the land cools faster, and the breeze turns around. Fishermen have long used this knowledge, setting out with the land breeze before dawn and returning with the sea breeze later in the day.

In the passage, the word 'its' in 'to take its place' refers to

Accepted Answer

(D) the warm air that has risen

Question 23

The grammar-translation method has its roots in the teaching of:

Accepted Answer

(C) Classical languages such as Latin and Greek

Question 24

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

In the narrow street of the metalworkers, the noise begins at nine and does not stop until dusk. In his open-fronted shop, Shankar Lal sits among sheets of brass and copper, beating a flat disc into a bowl with a small round hammer. He turns the metal a fraction after every blow, and the blows fall so evenly that they sound like a clock. Slowly the disc curves, deepens and rises at the edges. Then comes the finishing: hundreds of tiny dents, each one placed by hand, until the surface catches the light like a pond ruffled by the wind. Customers sometimes ask for a smooth, machine-pressed finish instead. Shankar Lal makes those too, but he sighs while he does it.

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

Accepted Answer

(B) at a steady, regular beat

Question 25

In a Class III where English is new, the children are afraid to say anything in English. Which first step is most likely to get them using English with confidence?

Accepted Answer

(C) Using short set phrases like 'May I drink water?' and 'Good morning' in daily routines

Question 26

Two neighbours pass each other every morning: 'Kaise ho?' 'Badhiya, aap?' 'Sab theek!' Neither expects real information; the exchange simply keeps up friendly contact. Linguists call this use of language:

Accepted Answer

(C) Phatic

Question 27

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

After the rain stopped, the courtyard was a shining sheet of water, and the drain by the gate had become a rushing stream. Bunty and his sister Mini tore pages from an old notebook and folded boats, a whole fleet of them, each with a number written on its side in pencil. They launched them one by one at the top of the stream and raced along beside them to the gate. Most capsized at the first bend. One stuck in a tangle of leaves. But a small blue one, made from the cover of the notebook, sailed all the way to the gate and out into the lane, and the two children stood watching until it was out of sight, as proud as if they had built a ship.

In the last sentence, what does 'it' in 'until it was out of sight' refer to?

Accepted Answer

(D) the small blue paper boat

Question 28

A teacher asks her class of 50, 'What would you do if you found a wallet on the road?' She gives a minute to think silently, then has students discuss with a partner, and finally invites a few pairs to share with the class. This strategy is called:

Accepted Answer

(D) Think-pair-share

Question 29

A text that a child can read and understand with some support from the teacher, but not entirely on her own, is said to be at her:

Accepted Answer

(C) Instructional level

Question 30

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Meera had seen trains only from the level crossing near her village, roaring past in a cloud of dust. Now she sat in one, her nose pressed to the bars of the window, while fields, ponds and tiny stations slid backwards as if someone were pulling them away on a string. At every halt, vendors pushed up to the window with tea, peanuts and guavas, and Meera looked hopefully at her father each time. He bought nothing until the fourth station, where he pointed to a woman selling hot puris. 'Your aunt will scold me,' he said, 'if you arrive hungry and tired.' Meera ate slowly, watching the sun sink behind a line of palm trees, and wished the journey would never end.

Why did Meera look hopefully at her father at every halt?

Accepted Answer

(A) She wanted him to buy her something from the vendors

Question 31

A Class II teacher displays on a wall the words her children often need while writing, grouped by their first letter, and the children look at it when they write. This resource is called a:

Accepted Answer

(D) Word wall

Question 32

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Halfway to their cousin's wedding, the Menons' car gave a cough and stopped dead on a lonely road between two villages. It was getting dark, and there was no signal on anyone's phone. Within ten minutes, a boy on a bicycle had stopped, looked at the car and pedalled away. Mr. Menon thought they had been abandoned. But the boy returned with his uncle, a lorry mechanic, who lay under the car with a torch in his teeth and found a loose wire. While he worked, the boy's mother sent over hot tea and rotis wrapped in cloth. When Mr. Menon tried to pay, the mechanic shook his head and said only, 'Tomorrow it may be my lorry on your road.'

What was wrong with the Menons' car, according to the passage?

Accepted Answer

(D) A wire had come loose

Question 33

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

When we hurt a knee, we show it to someone without a second thought. When we feel worried, lonely or sad, however, many of us hide it, as if such feelings were something to be ashamed of. Yet they are as natural as a scraped knee, and they too heal better when they are cared for. Sharing a worry with a trusted friend, a parent or a teacher does not make us weak. Often, just putting a fear into words makes it seem smaller, and the listener may see a way out that we had missed. Children who learn early that it is all right to speak about their feelings are better prepared to face the troubles that every life brings.

The word 'trusted' in the passage means

Accepted Answer

(D) one who can be relied upon

Question 34

During group work in a class of 60, a teacher notices that in most groups one or two students do everything while the others sit idle. What will help most?

Accepted Answer

(A) Giving each member a role, such as reader, writer, timekeeper or reporter, and rotating them

Question 35

A teacher recites a short rhyme several times, clearly and with proper rhythm and stress, and the children repeat it after her. Which principle of language learning is mainly at work?

Accepted Answer

(C) Imitation of a good model

Question 36

An eight-year-old consistently says 'thun' for 'sun' and 'wabbit' for 'rabbit', though his language and understanding are otherwise age-appropriate. This is best described as:

Accepted Answer

(B) An articulation (speech sound) difficulty

Question 37

A Class II teacher regularly uses Hindi riddles (पहेलियाँ) in class. Riddles mainly help children to:

Accepted Answer

(B) Think, guess from clues and enjoy word play while building vocabulary

Question 38

Asha has heard both Telugu and Hindi at home from birth, while her classmate Imran spoke only Bengali at home and began learning Hindi when he joined school. Their bilingualism is best described as, respectively:

Accepted Answer

(A) Simultaneous and sequential

Question 39

A Class V teacher groups the words 'help, helps, helped, helping, helper, helpful, helpless, unhelpful' together and shows how each is formed from 'help'. A base word together with its inflected and derived forms is called a:

Accepted Answer

(B) Word family

Question 40

According to the teacher's notes in NCERT's Honeycomb, how should the questions under 'Working with the Text' be handled after a prose lesson?

Accepted Answer

(D) Students answer them orally first, and later write them in the copybook

Question 41

A teacher keeps a folder for each child containing samples of her stories, letters, drafts and self-reflections collected over the year to show growth in writing. This assessment tool is called a:

Accepted Answer

(A) Portfolio

Question 42

To track her Class III pupils' spoken English, a teacher asks each child to talk about a picture every three or four months and records the response. According to NCERT's position paper on teaching English, which change most clearly shows language growth?

Accepted Answer

(D) The child's utterances grow longer and go beyond single nouns

Question 43

A Hindi teacher regularly reads her Class VI students stories translated from Tamil, Bangla, Marathi and Assamese. Apart from enjoyment, the main value of this practice is that it:

Accepted Answer

(D) Helps children value the diversity and shared heritage of Indian literatures

Question 44

A language textbook shows doctors and engineers only as men and nurses and cooks only as women. A language teacher should:

Accepted Answer

(B) Use the text to make children notice and discuss the gender stereotypes

Question 45

In the first months of Class I, a teacher notices that Mohan, unlike most classmates, cannot tell whether words rhyme or pick out their first sounds. What should she do?

Accepted Answer

(B) Give him extra phonological awareness games in a small group and keep track of his progress

Question 46

Krashen's acquisition-learning hypothesis makes a strong claim about how the two systems are related. Which of the following states that claim correctly?

Accepted Answer

(C) Knowledge that is consciously learnt does not turn into acquired knowledge

Question 47

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

On her first morning at school, Chhaya held her mother's dupatta so tightly at the gate that it had to be gently unwound from her fingers. She did not cry, but she stood in the corner of the classroom with her back to the wall and refused to take off her new bag. The teacher did not insist. She simply put a box of coloured chalk on the floor near Chhaya and went on with the other children. For a long time the box stayed untouched. Then a small hand reached out, and a yellow sun appeared on the floor, then a tree, then a cat with whiskers. When her mother came at noon, Chhaya asked whether she could come again tomorrow.

What can be inferred about the teacher's way of handling Chhaya?

Accepted Answer

(C) She let Chhaya settle in at her own pace

Question 48

The weak vowel heard in the unstressed syllables of 'about', 'banana' and 'teacher', the most frequent vowel sound in spoken English, is called:

Accepted Answer

(C) Schwa

Question 49

Match the grammar-teaching methods with their descriptions. A. सूत्र विधि (formula) B. भाषा-संसर्ग विधि (language contact) C. समवाय विधि (correlation) D. आगमन विधि (inductive). 1. Grammar absorbed through contact with good language, without formal rules 2. Rules memorised first, then illustrated 3. Grammar taken up as it arises in prose and poetry lessons 4. Children frame the rule from examples

Accepted Answer

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

Question 50

Which statement correctly contrasts the whole language approach with the phonics approach to teaching reading?

Accepted Answer

(B) Whole language starts with meaningful whole texts; phonics teaches letter-sound links systematically

CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers

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