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Question 1: When a writer describes an incident or a scene which had occurred in his life or any other person's life on the basis of memory, it is called_____.
(a) character sketch
(b) travelogue
(c) essay on experience
(d) Memoir
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Answer: (d) Memoir

Explanation:
1. A memoir is a written account based on personal memory of events.
2. A travelogue describes travel and a character sketch describes a person.

Teacher's Note:
1. Memoir = remembered experience.
2. Do not confuse it with an essay.

Question 2: Stories during the early years of language learning are_____
(a) for moralizing
(b) inputs for language learning
(c) repetition and reproduction
(d) learning one's society
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Answer: (b) inputs for language learning

Explanation:
1. Stories give rich, meaningful input.
2. Their main role is as language input, not moralising.

Teacher's Note:
1. Stories supply vocabulary and structures in context.
2. Moral lessons are secondary.

Question 3: Children in their early years scribble on the wall, floor and in note books. What is this stage in language learning called?
(a) Scribbling
(b) Emergent literacy
(c) Writing skills
(d) Graphic development
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Answer: (b) Emergent literacy

Explanation:
1. Early scribbling and pretend writing are signs of the beginning of literacy.
2. This stage is called emergent literacy.

Teacher's Note:
1. Emergent literacy is the stage before conventional reading and writing.
2. Encourage scribbling, do not stop it.

Question 4: Which of the following term is not related to the Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory
(a) Social interaction
(b) Scaffolding
(c) Zone of proximal development
(d) Mentalism
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Answer: (d) Mentalism

Explanation:
1. Social interaction, scaffolding and ZPD are central to Vygotsky.
2. Mentalism is linked to Chomsky's innate view.

Teacher's Note:
1. Vygotsky: learning is social.
2. Mentalism stresses inner mental structures.

Question 5: Constructivist approach to language learning includes
(a) drilling as an effective tool
(b) habit formation
(c) inquiry based learning
(d) practicing grammar rules
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Answer: (c) inquiry based learning

Explanation:
1. Constructivism holds learners build knowledge actively.
2. Inquiry-based learning fits this; drilling and habit formation are behaviourist.

Teacher's Note:
1. Constructivism: active, learner-centred.
2. Drill and habit belong to behaviourism.

Question 6: Skills of comprehension or receptive skills include-
(a) listening and reading
(b) listening and writing
(c) reading and writing
(d) writing and speaking
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Answer: (a) listening and reading

Explanation:
1. Receptive skills take in language: listening and reading.

Teacher's Note:
1. Receptive: listening, reading.
2. Productive: speaking, writing.

Question 7: Which of the following is not true about criterion-referenced test?
(a) They are designed to measure well defined and fairly specific objectives.
(b) Diagnostic and achievement tests belong to this category.
(c) They are course and programme specific
(d) They also measure learner's aptitude for foreign/second language learning.
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Answer: (d) They also measure learner's aptitude for foreign/second language learning.

Explanation:
1. Criterion-referenced tests measure specific objectives and are course specific.
2. Aptitude tests are norm-referenced and not part of this category.

Teacher's Note:
1. Criterion-referenced tests compare to a standard, not to others.
2. Aptitude and proficiency tests are usually norm-referenced.

Question 8: Loud reading activities should preferably be done with
(a) Junior students
(b) Senior students
(c) Only senior students in remedial classes
(d) Only junior students who don't complete their classwork
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Answer: (a) Junior students

Explanation:
1. Reading aloud helps beginners build decoding, pronunciation and fluency.
2. So it suits junior students.

Teacher's Note:
1. Older learners rely more on silent reading.
2. Reading aloud is not a punishment.

Question 9: ______ theory describes the process by which readers combine their own background knowledge with information in a text in order to comprehend that text.
(a) Code-switching
(b) Learning
(c) Schema
(d) Humanistic
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Answer: (c) Schema

Explanation:
1. Schema theory says readers use prior knowledge structures (schemata) together with the text.
2. This interaction produces comprehension.

Teacher's Note:
1. Activating prior knowledge before reading is applying schema theory.
2. Code-switching means alternating between languages.

Question 10: Brainstorming activity helps in…….
(a) generating creative ideas
(b) stressing the brain
(c) generating queries
(d) giving feedback
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Answer: (a) generating creative ideas

Explanation:
1. Brainstorming means freely producing many ideas on a topic.
2. It is mainly used to generate creative ideas, for example before writing.

Teacher's Note:
1. It is a pre-writing and pre-speaking strategy.
2. Do not judge ideas while brainstorming.

Question 11: Choose the correct sequence of language acquisition stages.
(a) Babbling, Cooing, The one-word stage, Telegraphic speech, and The two-word stage
(b) Cooing, Babbling, The one-word stage, Telegraphic speech, and The two-word stage
(c) Cooing, Babbling, Telegraphic speech, The one-word stage, and The two-word stage
(d) Cooing, Babbling, The one-word stage, The two-word stage, and Telegraphic speech
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Answer: (d) Cooing, Babbling, The one-word stage, The two-word stage, and Telegraphic speech

Explanation:
1. The accepted order is cooing, babbling, one-word stage, two-word stage, telegraphic speech.
2. Only the last option follows this order.

Teacher's Note:
1. Remember: coo, babble, one word, two words, telegraphic.
2. Telegraphic speech comes after the two-word stage.

Question 12: Which of the following term is related to Vygotsky's Socio-cultural theory?
(a) Process writing
(b) Child as a blank slate
(c) Zone of Proximal Development
(d) Assimilation and Accommodation
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Answer: (c) Zone of Proximal Development

Explanation:
1. The Zone of Proximal Development is Vygotsky's idea.
2. Assimilation and accommodation are Piaget's; the blank slate is behaviourist/Locke.

Teacher's Note:
1. Vygotsky: ZPD, scaffolding, social interaction.
2. Piaget: schema, assimilation, accommodation.

Question 13: The pattern of sentences that children need to learn to master the fundamental skills of language learning is called_______.
(a) Simulation
(b) Assimilation
(c) Structure
(d) Group Learning
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Answer: (c) Structure

Explanation:
1. Sentence patterns are the structures of a language.
2. The structural approach teaches these patterns.

Teacher's Note:
1. Structure = sentence pattern.
2. Simulation is a role-based activity.

Question 14: Which of the following you would not consider as an authentic task for language learning?
(a) Using a hotel menu for a speaking task.
(b) Asking learners to write an essay on 'Goat'.
(c) Asking learners to describe the room in which they are in now.
(d) Asking learners to listen to a film song they like and write the meaning of the same.
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Answer: (b) Asking learners to write an essay on 'Goat'.

Explanation:
1. Authentic tasks resemble real-life language use.
2. A menu, describing a room and a favourite song are real; an essay on 'Goat' has no real purpose.

Teacher's Note:
1. Ask who would really do this task and why.
2. Real purpose and audience make a task authentic.

Question 15: Reading aloud to students helps in
(a) building the learners' vocabulary and enhancing pronunciation
(b) helps the teacher to demonstrate her authority in class
(c) comprehend the details of the text
(d) helps the teacher to maintain silence in class
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Answer: (a) building the learners' vocabulary and enhancing pronunciation

Explanation:
1. Listening to a fluent reader exposes learners to new words and correct sounds.
2. So it builds vocabulary and pronunciation.

Teacher's Note:
1. Reading aloud models fluency and intonation.
2. It is not a discipline tool.

Question 16: Which one of the following is the most suitable assessment activity for assessing learners' listening skill?
(a) Enacting a character in a role play
(b) Describing a market scene
(c) Reading a newspaper in a morning assembly
(d) Retelling the story narrated by the teacher
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Answer: (d) Retelling the story narrated by the teacher

Explanation:
1. Listening is assessed by checking what learners understood from what they heard.
2. Retelling a story narrated by the teacher does this; the others test speaking or reading.

Teacher's Note:
1. Match the skill to the task.
2. Retelling shows comprehension of the listened text.

Question 17: ______ is learnt in a formal setting with the help of a teacher.
(a) First language
(b) Second language
(c) Home language
(d) Mother tongue
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Answer: (b) Second language

Explanation:
1. First language, home language and mother tongue are acquired at home.
2. A second language is learnt mostly in school with a teacher.

Teacher's Note:
1. L1 is acquired; L2 is learnt.
2. The setting is the clue.

Question 18: Constructivist approach is different from communicative approach in that it focuses primarily on______.
(a) meaning and expects that the form will be learnt in the process
(b) form and expects that the meaning will be comprehended in the process
(c) use and knowledge of the form
(d) drilling and habit formation
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Answer: (a) meaning and expects that the form will be learnt in the process

Explanation:
1. Constructivism focuses on meaning and lets learners work out form while using language.
2. Form-first and drilling belong to structural and behaviourist views.

Teacher's Note:
1. Meaning first, form follows.
2. Drilling is behaviourist.

Question 19: ______ involves telling people what they should do rather than simply giving suggestions.
(a) Constructivist approach
(b) Prescriptive approach
(c) Descriptive approach
(d) Structural approach
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Answer: (b) Prescriptive approach

Explanation:
1. A prescriptive approach lays down rules about what should be done.
2. A descriptive approach only describes actual usage.

Teacher's Note:
1. Prescriptive = prescribes rules.
2. Descriptive = describes usage.

Question 20: Summative assessment______.
(a) is diagnostic and remedial
(b) provides effective feedback to students
(c) allows the active involvement of the learners
(d) is used to make judgements about the students' learning and performance
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Answer: (d) is used to make judgements about the students' learning and performance

Explanation:
1. Summative assessment is done at the end of a unit or term.
2. It judges learning and performance, unlike formative assessment which gives feedback.

Teacher's Note:
1. Formative: for learning; summative: of learning.
2. Diagnostic and remedial belong to formative use.

Question 21: A dialect passes through these stages to get the status of 'standard dialect'.
(a) selection, codification, elaboration of functions and acceptance
(b) selection, acceptance, codification and elaboration of functions
(c) selection, elaboration of functions, codification and acceptance
(d) selection, acceptance, codification and elaboration of functions
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Answer: (a) selection, codification, elaboration of functions and acceptance

Explanation:
1. Haugen's model of standardisation: selection, codification, elaboration of function, acceptance.
2. Only the first option has this order.

Teacher's Note:
1. Remember S-C-E-A.
2. Options (b) and (d) are identical in the source and both wrong.

Question 22: Consider the statements (A) and (B) regarding communicative language teaching.
(A) The role of teacher is just like a facilitator or monitor rather than simply being the model for correct speech.
(B) Learners have to participate in classroom activities based on individual approach to learning.
(a) (A) is true, (B) is false.
(b) (A) is false, (B) is true.
(c) Both (A) and (B) are true
(d) Both (A) and (B) are false
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Answer: (a) (A) is true, (B) is false.

Explanation:
1. In CLT the teacher is a facilitator and monitor, so (A) is true.
2. CLT stresses cooperative pair and group work, not an individual approach, so (B) is false.

Teacher's Note:
1. CLT is learner-centred and interactive.
2. Look for 'individual' as the wrong detail.

Question 23: A corpus is ________ involving natural discourse in diverse contexts.
(a) a collection of textbooks
(b) a large collection or database of texts
(c) a large collection of articles
(d) a collection of grammatical sentences
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Answer: (b) a large collection or database of texts

Explanation:
1. A corpus is a large, searchable database of real texts.
2. It is not limited to textbooks, articles or grammatical sentences.

Teacher's Note:
1. Corpora show how language is actually used.
2. Dictionaries often draw on corpora.

Question 24: Which of the following is true of English language in India?
(a) It is one of the languages of VIII Schedule of Indian Constitution.
(b) It is the associate official language of the Indian Union.
(c) It is the official language of the Indian Union.
(d) It is one of the languages of the recognized languages by the Constitution.
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Answer: (b) It is the associate official language of the Indian Union.

Explanation:
1. English is not in the Eighth Schedule.
2. Hindi is the official language, and English is the associate official language.

Teacher's Note:
1. Official language: Hindi in Devanagari script.
2. English continues as associate official language.

Question 25: What is meant by reading skills on the basis of National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005?
(a) Correct Pronunciation
(b) Reading Syllables
(c) Reading with understanding
(d) Reading difficult sentences
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Answer: (c) Reading with understanding

Explanation:
1. NCF 2005 stresses that reading is making meaning from text.
2. So reading skill means reading with understanding.

Teacher's Note:
1. Reading is comprehension, not just decoding.
2. Pronunciation alone is not reading.

Question 26: A teacher gives a set of ten words to different groups in her class. She asks them to find words which can befriend the word and can have prefixes and suffixes to make a new word. What is this known as?
(a) Word web
(b) Thematic vocabulary
(c) Collocation
(d) Word chunks
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Answer: (c) Collocation

Explanation:
1. Words that 'befriend' a given word, that is go together with it, are its collocations.
2. The source key is collocation.

Teacher's Note:
1. Collocation means words that habitually go together.
2. The prefix and suffix detail makes the item doubtful.

Question 27: Grammar learning is.....
(a) learning the rules of grammar.
(b) learning the rules first and be able to use later.
(c) learning from meaning to use the form in contexts.
(d) finding errors in a written and spoken language in any language.
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Answer: (c) learning from meaning to use the form in contexts.

Explanation:
1. Current views teach grammar in context, from meaning to form.
2. Memorising rules first or error-hunting is not the aim.

Teacher's Note:
1. Teach grammar through use in context.
2. Rules first is the traditional approach.

Question 28: Which of the following statements about language is true?
(a) It is a system of systems
(b) It is systematic
(c) It is rule of rules and exceptions
(d) It is an idea of ideas
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Answer: (a) It is a system of systems

Explanation:
1. Language is described as a system of systems: sounds, words, grammar and meaning.
2. The other options are not standard statements.

Teacher's Note:
1. Language has subsystems.
2. The phrase 'system of systems' is the standard one.

Question 29: According to the approach of 'Total Physical Response', a teacher should________.
(a) Often conduct games and physical activities related to the topic.
(b) Facilitate discussions and dialogue among the students in English.
(c) Teach vocabulary by connecting words with appropriate actions.
(d) Help students accomplish real world tasks using their English abilities,
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Answer: (c) Teach vocabulary by connecting words with appropriate actions.

Explanation:
1. TPR (James Asher) links language with physical actions.
2. Teaching vocabulary by connecting words with actions is its core.

Teacher's Note:
1. Commands and actions are the main technique.
2. Real-world tasks are task-based teaching.

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