CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers: 688 Questions (Page 9)

Question 1

A 'print-rich environment' in a primary classroom means:

Accepted Answer

(A) Labels, charts, posters, books and children's writing are on display so children see meaningful print

Question 2

In an EVS class, instead of giving the answer, the teacher asks children to discuss in pairs and then explain in their own words why wet clothes dry faster on a sunny day. This practice mainly reflects the view that:

Accepted Answer

(C) Talking through ideas helps children think, clarify and construct their understanding

Question 3

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

For much of India, the year turns on the arrival of the monsoon. After weeks of fierce heat, when the fields lie cracked and dusty, moist winds blowing in from the sea bring clouds heavy with rain. The first showers are welcomed with relief by everyone, but nobody waits for them more anxiously than the farmer. Many crops, such as rice, need plenty of water, and in areas without canals or wells the rain is the only source. If the monsoon comes on time and spreads its rain evenly, the harvest is good and food is plentiful. If it is late, or if too much rain falls in too few days, crops can fail. The monsoon thus touches every plate in the country.

According to the passage, when can crops fail?

Accepted Answer

(A) When the rain is late or falls too heavily in a few days

Question 4

Consider the following statements in the light of NCF 2005. 1. Children entering Class I already have considerable competence in their home language(s). 2. School should treat this competence as the base on which new languages and literacy are built. Which is/are correct?

Accepted Answer

(C) Both 1 and 2

Question 5

A teacher sets up a class library and encourages children to borrow story books of their choice and read them at home for pleasure, without any test afterwards. This promotes:

Accepted Answer

(A) Extensive reading

Question 6

The concept of the Language Acquisition Device (LAD), an innate mental mechanism that enables children to acquire language, was proposed by:

Accepted Answer

(A) Noam Chomsky

Question 7

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Between noon and four o'clock in June, Sultanpur seems to fall asleep. The hot wind, the loo, blows dust down the empty main street, and every door and window is shut against it. The shopkeeper dozes behind his counter with a wet towel on his head; the dogs lie flat in the narrow strip of shade under a parked tractor; even the crows have stopped quarrelling. Only the old peepal at the crossroads seems awake, its leaves clattering in the wind. Then, as the sun slides down behind the water tank, the village stirs. Doors creak open, someone sprinkles water on the dusty courtyard, a child runs out with a ball, and the street slowly fills with voices again.

What can be inferred about the people of the village during the hottest hours?

Accepted Answer

(A) They stay indoors to escape the heat and wind

Question 8

According to NCF 2005, the goals of a second-language curriculum such as English are twofold. They are:

Accepted Answer

(A) Basic proficiency, and language as a tool for abstract thought and knowledge

Question 9

Six-year-old Riya correctly says 'meri kitaab' and 'mera basta' in Hindi and applies the same agreement to new nouns she has just heard, yet she cannot explain any rule of gender agreement. This shows that:

Accepted Answer

(C) She has acquired the rule implicitly, without formal grammar teaching

Question 10

A teacher with 60 students cannot write detailed comments on every composition every week. Which plan is most sound?

Accepted Answer

(C) Peer review with a checklist, detailed comments for a rotating group, whole-class feedback

Question 11

A Class II child writes 'ड़ाल' for 'डाल' (branch) and 'ड़र' for 'डर' (fear). Which feature of Hindi spelling can the teacher point out?

Accepted Answer

(A) ड़ never begins a Hindi word, so a word-initial sound is written ड

Question 12

A teacher regularly reads aloud interesting storybooks to her Class III with expression, even though the children can read on their own. The main benefit of this practice is that it:

Accepted Answer

(A) Models fluent, expressive reading and builds children's interest in books

Question 13

Which of the following is a characteristic feature of the direct method of language teaching?

Accepted Answer

(B) The mother tongue is not used; meaning is shown through objects, actions and pictures

Question 14

In a group task, Class VII students think aloud: 'Maybe the plant bent because... no wait, what if it's the light?' Their talk is hesitant and unfinished, yet it helps them reach an explanation. Douglas Barnes called this kind of talk:

Accepted Answer

(D) Exploratory talk

Question 15

Which of the following is a feature of the Devanagari script?

Accepted Answer

(C) It runs left to right, with a headline (शिरोरेखा) joining the letters of a word

Question 16

A teacher brings Hindi children's magazines (बाल पत्रिकाएँ) to class every month and gives time to read them. The main value of this practice is that the magazines:

Accepted Answer

(A) Offer varied, current reading: stories, poems, puzzles and children's own writing

Question 17

A primary teacher is not confident about her own spoken English, so she avoids English in class and teaches only through translation. Which suggestion from NCERT's position paper on teaching English would best help her give children English input?

Accepted Answer

(D) Read stories aloud regularly, use choral reading, and use talking books or radio

Question 18

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Not long ago, a fisherman setting out to sea had only the sky and his own experience to tell him whether a storm was coming. Today, satellites high above the earth photograph clouds as they form, and computers use these pictures, along with readings of wind and temperature, to predict the weather days in advance. When a cyclone is approaching the coast, warnings are broadcast on radio, television and mobile phones, giving families time to move to safer shelters and fishermen time to return to harbour. Forecasts are not always perfect, because the atmosphere is very complex. But the early warning they provide has saved countless lives.

According to the passage, why are weather forecasts not always perfect?

Accepted Answer

(C) Because the atmosphere is very complex

Question 19

A syllabus organised around what learners need to do with language, such as greeting, requesting, apologising and describing, and around notions such as time and quantity, rather than around a list of grammatical structures, is called a:

Accepted Answer

(B) Notional-functional syllabus

Question 20

Chomsky called his grammar 'generative'. This term refers to the idea that:

Accepted Answer

(B) A finite set of rules can produce an unlimited number of new sentences

Question 21

In a story by a Class VII student, a village grandmother speaks in Bundeli while the narration is in standard Hindi. How should the teacher view this?

Accepted Answer

(D) As an apt choice that brings the character alive, a technique regional writers also use

Question 22

A teacher draws three joined boxes and asks a child to say 'pen' slowly, pushing a counter into one box for each sound she hears. This activity mainly helps the child to:

Accepted Answer

(D) Break a spoken word into its separate sounds, which supports spelling

Question 23

Match each grammar point with the task that most naturally calls for it. A. Past simple B. Imperatives C. Comparatives D. Present continuous. 1. Telling a partner about last Sunday 2. Guessing what a classmate is miming right now 3. Deciding which of two animals would make a better pet 4. Giving a partner the steps to fold a paper boat

Accepted Answer

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

Question 24

Genie, a girl found at about thirteen years of age after years of severe isolation with almost no language around her, later learnt many words but never fully mastered grammar. Her case is most often cited in discussions of:

Accepted Answer

(A) The critical period for language acquisition

Question 25

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Most people think of the honeybee only as the maker of honey, but its greater gift to us is hidden in our fruit and vegetables. As a bee moves from flower to flower collecting nectar, fine yellow dust called pollen sticks to its hairy body. Some of this pollen rubs off on the next flower it visits, and this transfer allows the flower to form seeds and fruit. Many crops, from mustard to mangoes, depend partly on such visits. Bees, butterflies and other insects therefore work as unpaid helpers on the farm. When harmful sprays kill them in large numbers, the fields may still be green with leaves, yet bear far less fruit than before.

What can be inferred about a farmer whose fields have very few bees?

Accepted Answer

(B) His crops may give less fruit even if the plants look healthy

Question 26

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Lalita had spoken perhaps twenty words in class all year, and most of her teachers had stopped expecting more. So when the music teacher announced that Lalita would lead the song at Monday's assembly, several children laughed. On Monday she walked to the microphone with her eyes on the ground, and for a long moment nothing happened. Then she lifted her head and sang, and her voice, clear and steady, carried to the very back of the ground, where even the gardener stopped his work to listen. Afterwards, the music teacher was the only adult who did not look surprised. She had heard Lalita singing to herself in an empty classroom months before, and had been waiting for the right moment.

What does the passage suggest about the music teacher?

Accepted Answer

(D) She knew of a hidden talent and waited for the right time

Question 27

A Class IV teacher sets up a class post box. Children write notes and letters to classmates and to the teacher, and everyone writes back. What is the main value of this for writing?

Accepted Answer

(A) It makes writing real communication, with a reader who replies to the message

Question 28

In a learner-centred language classroom, the role of the teacher is best described as that of a:

Accepted Answer

(A) Facilitator who creates opportunities for learners to use the language

Question 29

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Gurnam's forge stands at the corner where the bazaar road meets the highway, and its glow can be seen from far away after dark. He heats a bar of iron until it turns from dull grey to cherry red to almost yellow, then lifts it with long tongs onto the anvil. His son swings the heavy hammer while Gurnam turns the bar with small, precise movements, and sparks scatter across the floor like startled insects. In an hour the bar has become a sickle blade, curved and thin. Farmers bring him broken tools from villages twenty kilometres away. They could buy new ones in the town, they say, but nothing from a shop stays sharp as long as a blade from Gurnam's forge.

As used in the passage, the word 'precise' (movements) means:

Accepted Answer

(C) exact and controlled

Question 30

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

We sometimes imagine that kindness must be grand to matter: a large donation, a daring rescue, a life given to a great cause. Such deeds are admirable, but they are rare. Most kindness is small and ordinary. It is holding a door for someone carrying parcels, sharing an umbrella at a bus stop, helping a classmate who missed a lesson, or simply smiling at a new child who looks lost. None of these costs much, and the giver may forget them by evening. Yet the person who receives them may remember for years. A day is made better, and sometimes a life is changed, by acts so small that nobody thinks to praise them.

The writer's purpose in this passage is to

Accepted Answer

(D) show that small, everyday acts of kindness matter a great deal

Question 31

Reading 'The old man was frugal; he never spent money on anything he did not really need,' a Class VI student works out, without a dictionary, that 'frugal' means careful with money. Which vocabulary strategy has she used?

Accepted Answer

(A) Using context clues

Question 32

Which is the most important consideration when selecting बाल साहित्य (children's literature) for a Class III reading corner?

Accepted Answer

(B) Language and content that suit the children's age, interests and experience

Question 33

Before a guided reading group reads a new picture book, the teacher turns its pages with the children, talks about the pictures and introduces one or two key words, without reading the text. This pre-reading step is called a:

Accepted Answer

(C) Picture walk

Question 34

Match each skill with the activity that mainly develops it: (a) Listening (b) Speaking (c) Reading (d) Writing. (i) Writing a postcard to a cousin (ii) Finding the date of a function on a school notice (iii) Following oral directions to trace a route on a map (iv) Describing a picture to a partner

Accepted Answer

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

Question 35

A three-year-old hears her aunt say, 'Pass me the olive-green cup, not the red one,' and a day later points to another olive-green object and names its colour. Forming a quick, partial idea of a new word's meaning after only one or two meaningful exposures is called:

Accepted Answer

(A) Fast mapping

Question 36

According to Vygotsky, how are thought and language related in a child's early development?

Accepted Answer

(D) They develop separately at first and merge around age two, when thought becomes verbal

Question 37

A mother corrects her young son's sentence 'Nobody don't like me' several times. Each time he repeats it unchanged, and at last says, 'Oh! Nobody don't likes me.' This well-known example mainly shows that:

Accepted Answer

(D) Child grammar follows its own developing rules more than direct correction

Question 38

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

The water in a puddle does not simply vanish when the sun comes out. Warmed by sunlight, it slowly turns into an invisible gas called water vapour and rises into the air. High above the ground the air is cooler, so the vapour changes back into tiny droplets that gather to form clouds. When these droplets join together and grow too heavy to float, they fall as rain, or as snow in very cold places. The rainwater fills rivers, lakes and wells, soaks into the soil, and finally reaches the sea. From there the sun lifts it once again. In this way the same water keeps travelling between the earth and the sky, again and again, without end.

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

Accepted Answer

(D) The Endless Journey of Water

Question 39

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Our eyes work hard from the moment we wake until we fall asleep, and they deserve some care in return. Reading in dim light forces them to strain, and so does holding a book or screen too close to the face. A good habit is to read in bright, even light, with the page held at a comfortable distance. Those who spend long hours on close work can rest their eyes by looking at something far away, such as a tree outside the window, for a short while every so often. Rubbing the eyes with dirty hands can carry germs into them. Finally, a child who finds the blackboard blurry should not be teased but taken for an eye test, since a simple pair of glasses may solve the problem.

The word 'blurry' as used in the passage means

Accepted Answer

(A) not clear or sharp to the eye

Question 40

Which of the following is NOT a common cause of pronunciation errors (उच्चारण दोष) in children?

Accepted Answer

(A) Regularly listening to good models of spoken Hindi

Question 41

In a Class II EVS oral test, a child correctly explains in her home language why plants need water but cannot say it in the school language. The most appropriate response is to:

Accepted Answer

(C) Give credit for her understanding, and keep helping her express it in the school language

Question 42

According to Krashen, which of the following best describes language 'acquisition' as distinct from language 'learning'?

Accepted Answer

(B) A subconscious process that happens through meaningful exposure and communication

Question 43

The bilingual method of language teaching, in which the mother tongue is used only by the teacher to convey meaning while students always respond in the target language, was developed by:

Accepted Answer

(D) C.J. Dodson

Question 44

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Pema woke to a silence so complete that she thought she had gone deaf. Then she pulled back the curtain and gasped. In the night the snow had come, and the whole valley was white: the roofs, the fences, the apple trees, even the clothes on the line along the balcony hung heavy and still. Her younger brothers were already outside, sinking to their knees with every step. They shouted for her to come and help, because they had started building a snowman and could not lift its head. Pema pulled on two sweaters and her father's old boots. By the time their mother called them in for breakfast, the snowman wore Pema's red cap and had a carrot for a nose.

In the sentence 'because they had started building a snowman', who does 'they' refer to?

Accepted Answer

(B) Pema's younger brothers

Question 45

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Every year, when the nights begin to turn cold, the cranes return to the big pond outside Malpura. First a few arrive, circling high and calling in their strange trumpet voices, and then, within a week, there are hundreds, standing in the shallows on their long grey legs. The villagers treat them as honoured guests. Children are told not to throw stones, dogs are kept tied in the mornings, and an old farmer scatters grain on the bank at dawn. All winter the birds feed and rest. Then one morning in March the pond is strangely quiet, and the village knows that its guests have left on their long journey north.

In the passage, the word 'shallows' means:

Accepted Answer

(C) parts of the water that are not deep

Question 46

In a Class VI English class, most students hesitate to speak in front of the whole class. Which strategy will best increase their speaking practice?

Accepted Answer

(D) Pair and small-group work that gives every student more chances to talk with less fear

Question 47

Two teachers mark the same set of stories. One gives each story a single overall score using descriptions of whole performances; the other gives separate scores for ideas, organisation, vocabulary and mechanics. The second teacher is using a/an:

Accepted Answer

(B) Analytic rubric

Question 48

Arrange the steps of remedial teaching in the correct order: (A) Providing remedial instruction (B) Diagnosing the specific difficulty (C) Identifying learners who are lagging behind (D) Re-assessing to check improvement

Accepted Answer

(A) C, B, A, D

Question 49

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Children are made to move. Running, jumping, climbing and chasing a ball are not just ways of passing time; they build strong bones and muscles, help the heart and lungs, and improve balance. Children who play outdoors every day also tend to sleep better and concentrate better in class. Sunlight on the skin helps the body make vitamin D, which bones need. Yet many children today spend most of their free hours sitting, whether in front of a screen or bent over books. An hour of active play each day is not a luxury to be given only when all the homework is done. It is as necessary for a growing child as a good meal.

Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage?

Accepted Answer

(A) Daily active play is a real need for a child's health

Question 50

A Class IV child regularly writes 'दिवार' for 'दीवार' (wall), 'पुरा' for 'पूरा' (whole) and 'परिक्षा' for 'परीक्षा' (exam). Which remedy best targets the cause?

Accepted Answer

(A) Saying and hearing vowel-length pairs (दिन–दीन, कुल–कूल), then writing such words

CTET Language Pedagogy (Hindi and English) MCQ with Answers

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