Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) for CTET : English
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These 29 CTET English multiple choice questions cover English language teaching, pedagogy of language, grammar and language development. Each question has the correct answer with a step-by-step explanation and a short teacher's note, so you can practise for the Central Teacher Eligibility Test and check your understanding.
Multiple Choice Questions
(a) Do not support learning
(b) Support students' learning
(c) Should be selected based on objectives of teaching
(d) Serve as resource for teachers
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Answer: (a) Do not support learning
Explanation:
1. Teaching-learning materials are meant to support learning.
2. They are chosen to match objectives and serve as resources.
3. The false statement is that they do not support learning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Read 'not true' questions carefully.
2. Choose the statement contrary to accepted view.
(a) Chomsky
(b) Piaget
(c) Vygotsky
(d) Skinner
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Answer: (a) Chomsky
Explanation:
1. Noam Chomsky proposed an innate Language Acquisition Device and universal grammar.
2. Skinner supported learning by reinforcement.
Teacher's Note:
1. Chomsky is the nativist.
2. Remember: Chomsky innate, Skinner behaviourist.
(a) Idiom of the Day - Teacher presents an idiom related to the lesson daily.
(b) Weekend read - Students share about the novel or the book that they read.
(c) Daily Talk - Students talk about some activity of the previous day, for a minute everyday.
(d) Journal writing - Students free write for about 5 minutes before starting the class.
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Answer: (c) Daily Talk - Students talk about some activity of the previous day, for a minute everyday.
Explanation:
1. Most students read at a lower level, so tasks must not depend on grade-level reading.
2. Idioms are too hard and novels are too advanced; free writing is demanding.
3. A one-minute daily talk about familiar activities lets everyone take part.
Teacher's Note:
1. Choose tasks matching learners' actual level.
2. Short familiar oral tasks build confidence.
(a) How are you and your best friend different from each other? - compare your essays and find out.
(b) Using the given list of points, check what all you have included, and include the rest.
(c) What is your most favourite activity?
(d) How did you decide which things about yourself to include in the essay?
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Answer: (d) How did you decide which things about yourself to include in the essay?
Explanation:
1. Assessment as learning asks learners to reflect on and monitor their own learning.
2. Asking how they decided what to include prompts reflection on their own choices and thinking.
3. So (d) is best.
Teacher's Note:
1. Assessment as learning builds metacognition and self-assessment.
2. Questions about the learner's own process are reflective.
(a) Learner
(b) Child-centred
(c) Teacher-centred
(d) Elaborative
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Answer: (b) Child-centred
Explanation:
1. Giving primacy to children's experiences, voices and participation is child-centred pedagogy.
2. Planning by their development and interests also fits this.
3. Teacher-centred is the opposite.
Teacher's Note:
1. NCF stresses child-centred education.
2. Note the keywords: experiences, voices, interests.
(a) An inclusive classroom with diverse learners
(b) An inclusive classroom with selected learners
(c) An exclusive classroom with diverse learners
(d) An exclusive classroom with selected learners
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Answer: (a) An inclusive classroom with diverse learners
Explanation:
1. Peer acceptance grows when children of different abilities and backgrounds learn together.
2. An inclusive classroom with diverse learners achieves this.
Teacher's Note:
1. Inclusion means all learners learn together.
2. Selected or exclusive groups reduce acceptance of differences.
(a) Demonstrating correct pronunciation
(b) Practising the correct position of the tongue and lips.
(c) Providing opportunity to learners to speak in real life situations.
(d) Providing opportunity to learners to speak for a minute to enable you to diagnose the error.
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Answer: (c) Providing opportunity to learners to speak in real life situations.
Explanation:
1. Option (c) as printed is garbled ('speech in a neat life situations'), and in the intended form it is a good strategy.
2. Taking the key as given, (c) is the option picked as the one that cannot be used, because of its faulty wording.
3. Options (a), (b) and (d) are sound practices.
Teacher's Note:
1. The question is poorly framed and the key relies on the garbled option.
2. Real-life speaking opportunities are normally recommended.
(a) Does the title given by the poet fit the poem?
(b) Pick an imagery from the poem and use it in a sentence.
(c) Write a short note on what you most liked about the poem.
(d) How did the forest appear to the little boy as per the poem?
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Answer: (a) Does the title given by the poet fit the poem?
Explanation:
1. Judging whether the title fits needs readers to go beyond the words and draw conclusions about the poem's theme.
2. Option (d) asks for stated information, (b) for use of a word and (c) for personal opinion.
Teacher's Note:
1. Inference means reading between the lines.
2. Direct-recall questions are literal, not inferential.
(a) What are verbs? Give a few examples.
(b) Using the given rule sheet, redo the worksheet and write the correct tense forms.
(c) Take the textbook and underline the definitions of past tense and future tense.
(d) Fill in the blanks in simple past tense: He ____ (run) very fast yesterday.
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Answer: (d) Fill in the blanks in simple past tense: He ____ (run) very fast yesterday.
Explanation:
1. Assessment of learning checks what learners can do after the lesson, without help.
2. Option (d) tests use of the tense form directly and independently.
3. Options (b) and (c) allow help from a rule sheet or textbook, and (a) is not about tense forms.
Teacher's Note:
1. Assessment of learning is summative and checks achievement.
2. Choose the item that tests the target skill without support.
(a) Speech characteristics of a language in a region.
(b) Language of a state or country.
(c) Language with a script of a region.
(d) The written language and literature of a region.
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Answer: (a) Speech characteristics of a language in a region.
Explanation:
1. A dialect is a variety of a language with its own pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.
2. A regional dialect is the speech characteristics of a language in a particular region.
Teacher's Note:
1. A dialect is not a separate language or script.
2. Dialects are varieties, not wrong forms.
This process of reading will help most of the learners to
(a) Decode the text.
(b) Read with comprehension.
(c) Develop curiosity in the act of reading.
(d) Be motivated to learn the language.
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Answer: (a) Decode the text.
Explanation:
1. The teacher models word-by-word pronunciation and gives translation.
2. This helps learners convert print into sounds and words, that is, decode.
3. It does not build independent comprehension or curiosity.
Teacher's Note:
1. Decoding is converting written symbols to sounds and words.
2. Comprehension needs thinking and interaction with the text.
(a) Productivity
(b) Displacement
(c) Semanticity
(d) Syntax
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Answer: (c) Semanticity
Explanation:
1. Semanticity means that words are symbols with meanings that stand for things.
2. Productivity is creating new utterances, displacement is talking about things not present, syntax is word order.
Teacher's Note:
1. These are design features of human language.
2. Match the feature with its definition.
(a) Self-evaluation
(b) Remedial teaching
(c) Observation reports
(d) Reflective journal
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Answer: (b) Remedial teaching
Explanation:
1. Self-evaluation, observation reports and reflective journals are tools for a teacher's own reflection and professional growth.
2. Remedial teaching is for helping learners, so it is of least importance for improving the teacher's own performance.
Teacher's Note:
1. Teacher development comes from reflection and feedback.
2. Remedial teaching is a learner-support activity.
(a) Authentic material
(b) Adapted material
(c) Self-made material
(d) Material easily available
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Answer: (a) Authentic material
Explanation:
1. Menu cards, newspaper cuttings and timetables are real-life texts not written for teaching.
2. Such materials are authentic materials.
Teacher's Note:
1. Authentic materials expose learners to real language use.
2. Adapted materials are modified for learners.
(a) correcting errors whenever they happen.
(b) letting children read aloud in class.
(c) using game-like activities that require verbal interaction in the classroom.
(d) conducting special speech therapy with a counsellor and practice through drills.
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Answer: (c) using game-like activities that require verbal interaction in the classroom.
Explanation:
1. Lack of confidence is reduced in a relaxed, low-anxiety setting.
2. Games with verbal interaction give enjoyable speaking practice.
3. Constant correction, reading aloud in front of others or therapy-like drills may increase anxiety.
Teacher's Note:
1. Fun and fluency come before accuracy in early speaking.
2. Avoid interrupting to correct.
(a) skill
(b) acquisition
(c) process
(d) product
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Answer: (a) skill
Explanation:
1. Language learning means gaining the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing through practice.
2. As per the source key the answer is skill.
Teacher's Note:
1. The wording is vague; the key treats language learning as a skill developed through practice.
2. Do not confuse it with the acquisition-learning distinction of Krashen.
Ways of reading
A. Predicting
B. Inferring attitude
C. Deducing meaning from context
D. Intensive reading
E. Identifying text organisation
What readers do
i. They determine how writers feel based on how they write.
ii. They use parts of the text to help them understand unfamiliar lexis.
iii. They look at how the information is structured, by noticing headings or introductory phrases.
iv. They focus on how language is used in a piece of text.
v. They use titles and pictures to give themselves ideas about what the text is about.
(a) A-iv, B-iii, C-ii, D-i, E-v
(b) A-v, B-i, C-ii, D-iv, E-iii
(c) A-i, B-iv, C-v, D-ii, E-iii
(d) A-ii, B-i, C-iii, D-iv, E-v
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Answer: (b) A-v, B-i, C-ii, D-iv, E-iii
Explanation:
1. Predicting uses titles and pictures (A-v); inferring attitude is judging how writers feel (B-i).
2. Deducing meaning uses parts of the text (C-ii); intensive reading focuses on language use (D-iv).
3. Text organisation is noticing headings (E-iii), giving A-v, B-i, C-ii, D-iv, E-iii.
Teacher's Note:
1. Match the clearest pairs first and eliminate options.
2. Predicting before reading uses titles and pictures.
(a) how well do the tests relate to the objectives of the test.
(b) how well the learners perform in the tests.
(c) tests should produce similar results.
(d) tests should contain recall-type items.
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Answer: (a) how well do the tests relate to the objectives of the test.
Explanation:
1. Validity means a test measures what it is meant to measure.
2. So it concerns how well the test relates to its objectives.
3. Similar results on repetition is reliability.
Teacher's Note:
1. Validity: measures the intended thing. Reliability: consistency.
2. Do not confuse the two.
(a) Auditory
(b) Visual
(c) Kinesthetic
(d) Aesthetic
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Answer: (c) Kinesthetic
Explanation:
1. Gestures and bodily movements are physical action.
2. Learning through movement and doing is the kinaesthetic style.
Teacher's Note:
1. Auditory is hearing, visual is seeing, kinaesthetic is moving.
2. The words 'bodily movements' point to kinaesthetic.
(a) becomes a burden to the teacher in the classroom.
(b) confuses the learners while learning a new language.
(c) is very helpful in teaching and learning a new language.
(d) causes interference in learning a new language.
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Answer: (c) is very helpful in teaching and learning a new language.
Explanation:
1. Knowing more than one language is a resource for learning another.
2. NCF and NEP treat multilingualism as an asset, not a burden.
Teacher's Note:
1. Prior languages support new learning.
2. Interference is minor compared with the benefits.
(a) Motor
(b) Sensory
(c) Cognitive
(d) Rational
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Answer: (d) Rational
Explanation:
1. Domains of development are physical or motor, cognitive, social-emotional and language, with sensory development within them.
2. 'Rational' is not a developmental domain.
Teacher's Note:
1. Know the standard domains: physical, cognitive, social-emotional, language.
2. Choose the odd term.
(a) Report
(b) Account
(c) Checklist
(d) Flashcard
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Answer: (c) Checklist
Explanation:
1. A checklist lists behaviours and skills which a teacher ticks off as observed.
2. It can be used continuously to track progress.
Teacher's Note:
1. Checklists, anecdotal records and rating scales are observation tools.
2. Flashcards are teaching aids.
(a) the only tool
(b) one of the tools
(c) one of the tools for evaluation
(d) an assessment tool
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Answer: (b) one of the tools
Explanation:
1. A textbook is one of many resources.
2. Teachers also use stories, newspapers, audio and real objects.
Teacher's Note:
1. NCF advises not to depend on the textbook alone.
2. Avoid options with 'only'.
(a) Real life situations to communicate.
(b) Real objects as teaching aids.
(c) Realistic objectives for the learners.
(d) Real level of the child's learning.
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Answer: (b) Real objects as teaching aids.
Explanation:
1. Realia are real objects from everyday life.
2. They are used as teaching aids to give meaning to words.
Teacher's Note:
1. Examples include fruits, coins, tickets and tools.
2. Realia support concrete understanding.
(a) Content knowledge
(b) Procedural knowledge
(c) Process knowledge
(d) Declarative knowledge
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Answer: (d) Declarative knowledge
Explanation:
1. Introducing and explaining rules first teaches knowledge about the language, which is declarative knowledge.
2. Practice then turns it into use, but the process begins with and is named for the explicit rule teaching as per the key.
Teacher's Note:
1. Declarative is knowing that; procedural is knowing how.
2. The key is retained; the question is ambiguous.
This resonates with
(a) Comprehensible Input
(b) Comprehensible Output
(c) Monitor Hypothesis
(d) Natural Order
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Answer: (a) Comprehensible Input
Explanation:
1. Krashen's comprehensible input is input slightly above the learner's level (i + 1).
2. Understanding such a text matches this idea.
Teacher's Note:
1. Krashen's i + 1: input one step beyond present level.
2. Output hypothesis is Swain's.
(a) presenting an oral report
(b) good organization
(c) clear purpose
(d) grammatical accuracy
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Answer: (a) presenting an oral report
Explanation:
1. Good writing has organisation, a clear purpose and grammatical accuracy.
2. Presenting an oral report is speaking, not writing.
Teacher's Note:
1. Distinguish oral from written skills.
2. Writing needs planning, coherence and accuracy.
(a) Must keep activities aside and instead ask questions and motivate them to respond.
(b) Must ensure to add some bodily activities in class.
(c) Choose activities that help them stay in their seats and work in pairs or groups.
(d) Must add some listening activity in class.
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Answer: (b) Must ensure to add some bodily activities in class.
Explanation:
1. TPR links language to physical action.
2. Learners respond to commands with movement, so bodily activities must be included.
Teacher's Note:
1. Asher's TPR: listen and act.
2. Seated tasks and question-answer are not TPR.
(a) Grammar Translation
(b) Deductive
(c) Inductive
(d) Communicative
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Answer: (b) Deductive
Explanation:
1. The deductive approach gives rules first and then practice.
2. This reflects the belief that learning is mastering rules.
3. The inductive approach lets learners discover rules from examples.
Teacher's Note:
1. Grammar translation is a method; deductive is the grammar approach.
2. Communicative approach stresses use, not rules.
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