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Multiple Choice Questions
(a) Children's English proficiency greatly improves through exposure.
(b) Linguistic diversity in a class constrains English language teaching.
(c) Children learn better through drills and rigorous practice.
(d) Language is constitutive of a child's cultural and social identity.
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Answer: (d) Language is constitutive of a child's cultural and social identity.
Explanation:
1. NCF 2005 treats language as part of a child's cultural and social identity.
2. It sees diversity as a resource, not a constraint, and does not favour drilling.
Teacher's Note:
1. Respect each child's language.
2. Diversity is an asset.
(a) Ask students to punctuate the following: ramesh loves eating ice-creams he also enjoys pizza pasta and other such items
(b) Ask students to identify punctuation marks in the following: Radha reached school late. She ran up the stairs, reached her classroom and asked, "May I come in?"
(c) Pair students and ask them to act out the following with the right tone: "May I go to watch the movie?" "No! You may not! Finish your homework, eat your dinner and go to sleep."
(d) Ask students to list the rules in using full-stop, comma and question-mark.
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Answer: (a) Ask students to punctuate the following: ramesh loves eating ice-creams he also enjoys pizza pasta and other such items
Explanation:
1. The objective is to use punctuation, so students must actually punctuate.
2. Only the first task asks them to apply it; the others identify, speak or list rules.
Teacher's Note:
1. Match the assessment verb to the objective verb.
2. 'Use' needs an application task.
(a) To eliminate ineffective habits.
(b) To teach again the language items not learnt properly.
(c) To make learners learn by drilling.
(d) To arise learners interest in learning with stimulating approaches.
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Answer: (c) To make learners learn by drilling.
Explanation:
1. Remedial teaching removes weaknesses, reteaches items and renews interest.
2. Making learners learn by mere drilling is not its purpose.
Teacher's Note:
1. Use new, stimulating methods in remedial work.
2. Repeating the same drill rarely helps.
(a) a system of systems
(b) a logical system
(c) not a rule governed system
(d) a grammar rule sets
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Answer: (a) a system of systems
Explanation:
1. Language is a system made of sub-systems such as sounds, words and grammar.
2. It is rule-governed but not purely logical.
Teacher's Note:
1. Language is not just grammar.
2. It has many interrelated systems.
(a) Structured story telling
(b) Pronunciation of difficult words.
(c) Formation of letters
(d) Understanding of root words.
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Answer: (d) Understanding of root words.
Explanation:
1. A word wall displays words so learners see them repeatedly and group them.
2. It best supports word study such as root words, prefixes and suffixes.
Teacher's Note:
1. Words can be grouped by root.
2. It is a visual vocabulary and spelling aid.
Invited friends. Bought cake... decorations drinks snacks.
parents blow balloons
I decorated.
What step of paragraph writing should you ask the student to MOST focus on now?
(a) Ideating
(b) Structuring
(c) Drafting
(d) Editing
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Answer: (c) Drafting
Explanation:
1. The student has ideas but only as fragments, not connected sentences.
2. The next step is drafting them into a proper paragraph.
Teacher's Note:
1. Drafting turns ideas into full sentences.
2. Editing comes after a full draft exists.
(a) natural and subconscious
(b) deliberate and conscious
(c) both natural and deliberate
(d) innate and involuntary
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Answer: (b) deliberate and conscious
Explanation:
1. Following Krashen, learning is conscious and deliberate.
2. Natural and subconscious is acquisition.
Teacher's Note:
1. Acquisition = subconscious; learning = conscious.
2. Keep the two terms apart.
(a) Learner read a story in groups of five.
(b) Learners write a dialogue for skit to be enacted in an event.
(c) Learners enact a role play on the issue of climate change.
(d) Learners asks questions to understand the ideas of the talk they listened to.
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Answer: (a) Learner read a story in groups of five.
Explanation:
1. Input-based tasks involve receiving language through reading or listening.
2. Reading a story is such a task; the others need output.
Teacher's Note:
1. Input = reading, listening.
2. Output = speaking, writing.
A. A variety of language, spoken in one part of a Country is known as regional dialect
B. A variety of language used only by the people having similar education background is known as social dialect.
(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. A regional dialect is tied to a place, so (A) is true.
2. A social dialect relates to social class and group, not education only, so (B) is false.
Teacher's Note:
1. Social dialect (sociolect) depends on class, occupation, age and so on.
2. The word 'only' makes (B) wrong.
(a) Call a friend who speaks better English.
(b) Find examples of authentic spoken language use.
(c) Consult a grammar textbook and find such usages.
(d) Refer to a dictionary.
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Answer: (b) Find examples of authentic spoken language use.
Explanation:
1. 'Well' and 'umm' are discourse markers and fillers of real speech.
2. Authentic spoken examples show how they are used.
Teacher's Note:
1. Written grammar books seldom cover spoken features.
2. Corpora and recordings are good sources.
(i) He ……….. (Is/are) on actor.
(ii) On the weekend, I'm going to ……..... in the morning and will return by 5pm in evening.
(iii) Ask your friend where he/she likes to visit on weekend and why.
(iv) Ask your classmate two points which she/he considers while group discussion.
(a) (i), (ii), (iii)
(b) (ii), (iii)
(c) (i), (ii)
(d) (iii), (iv)
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Answer: (d) (iii), (iv)
Explanation:
1. Communicative skills need real interaction and an information gap.
2. (iii) and (iv) are interactive tasks; (i) and (ii) are fill-in-the-blank exercises.
Teacher's Note:
1. Interaction between learners marks communicative tasks.
2. Gap-fill drills practise form.
(a) Introducing the letter of the alphabets to learners.
(b) Creating language awareness among learners.
(c) Develop an understanding for script awareness among learners.
(d) Creating language rich environment in the classroom
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Answer: (d) Creating language rich environment in the classroom
Explanation:
1. Labelling objects in several languages fills the room with print.
2. This creates a language-rich environment.
Teacher's Note:
1. Print-rich classrooms support literacy.
2. Multilingual labels respect learners' languages.
(a) Teacher should begin with the common language of the class and let learners use their language.
(b) Teacher should use only English or the other language and should not allow learners to use their mother tongue.
(c) Teacher should freely allow children to use any language they wish to use and she may speak in the common language.
(d) Teacher should speak the language which to attempts to teach her learners, learners will ultimately learn the target language.
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Answer: (c) Teacher should freely allow children to use any language they wish to use and she may speak in the common language.
Explanation:
1. Multilingual practice lets children use any language they wish.
2. The teacher may use the common language to help understanding.
Teacher's Note:
1. Do not ban mother tongues.
2. Option (a) is close, but (c) is more fully inclusive.
(a) By giving clear instruction on the topic and word limit.
(b) By praising learners what they did well and making specific comments to improve further.
(c) By asking learners to write in a good handwriting.
(d) By giving learners detailed feedback only on their grammatical errors.
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Answer: (b) By praising learners what they did well and making specific comments to improve further.
Explanation:
1. Positive and specific feedback encourages young writers and shows how to improve.
2. Instructions, handwriting or grammar-only feedback do not build writing skill by themselves.
Teacher's Note:
1. Praise first, then give specific suggestions.
2. Do not focus only on errors.
Which of the following language skills can this help develop?
(a) Proof reading
(b) Scanning
(c) Inferring
(d) Intensive reading
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Answer: (b) Scanning
Explanation:
1. Students search quickly for specific words in a text.
2. Looking rapidly for specific items is scanning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Scanning: look for a particular item.
2. Skimming: get the gist.
(a) Foreign language
(b) Official language
(c) Associate official language
(d) Indian language
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Answer: (c) Associate official language
Explanation:
1. Hindi is the official language of the Union.
2. English was given the status of associate official language.
Teacher's Note:
1. English is not in the Eighth Schedule.
2. Do not call it the official language.
(a) Chomsky
(b) Piaget
(c) Vygotsky
(d) Skinner
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Answer: (d) Skinner
Explanation:
1. Piaget and Vygotsky see learning as coming from experience and interaction.
2. Skinner stressed conditioning, and Chomsky an innate faculty; the source key is Skinner.
Teacher's Note:
1. The stem is vague; Chomsky also does not fit.
2. Source key kept.
(a) What could be the title of this story?
(b) Think of an alternative ending for this story.
(c) How does the author describe the dog's character?
(d) Guess what is happening in the story based on the given image.
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Answer: (a) What could be the title of this story?
Explanation:
1. Summarising means condensing the main idea of a text.
2. Choosing a suitable title requires the learner to identify the central idea of the whole story, which is the core of summarising.
3. The other options practise creative thinking, characterisation and prediction.
Teacher's Note:
1. Titles, gists and one-line summaries train learners to identify main ideas.
2. Prediction and alternative endings are different reading skills.
Which of the following LEAST fulfils the purpose of authentic texts?
(a) A rules sheet for phonics
(b) A food menu at a local restaurant.
(c) A video used to promote health and hygiene.
(d) A letter to an author in response to a published book.
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Answer: (a) A rules sheet for phonics
Explanation:
1. Authentic texts are real-life materials produced for real communication, not for teaching language.
2. A menu, a health promotion video and a letter to an author are all real-life texts.
3. A phonics rules sheet is made for teaching, so it is the least authentic.
Teacher's Note:
1. Authentic materials expose learners to real language use.
2. Materials created only for classroom teaching are not authentic.
(a) Whole language
(b) Constructivist
(c) Communicative
(d) Behaviouristic
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Answer: (a) Whole language
Explanation:
1. The whole language approach treats language as a whole and values meaning and overall expression.
2. Errors such as spelling are tolerated and not penalised heavily.
Teacher's Note:
1. Whole language stresses meaningful, holistic use over accuracy of parts.
2. Behaviouristic approaches stress correct habit formation and accuracy.
(a) Skimming
(b) Scanning
(c) Extrapolation
(d) Analysis
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Answer: (b) Scanning
Explanation:
1. Scanning is searching quickly for a particular piece of information such as a name, date or number.
2. Skimming is reading for the general gist.
Teacher's Note:
1. Scanning = specific information; skimming = gist.
2. Examples of scanning: looking up a phone number or a train time.
(a) reading and writing
(b) listening and speaking.
(c) listening and reading.
(d) speaking and writing.
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Answer: (d) speaking and writing.
Explanation:
1. Productive skills are those in which the learner produces language: speaking and writing.
2. Listening and reading are receptive skills.
Teacher's Note:
1. Receptive: listening, reading. Productive: speaking, writing.
2. Remember productive = output.
(a) Phonology
(b) Morphology
(c) Phonetics
(d) Syntax
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Answer: (c) Phonetics
Explanation:
1. Phonetics studies how speech sounds are produced and perceived.
2. Phonology studies the sound system and patterns of a language.
Teacher's Note:
1. Phonetics = physical sounds; phonology = sound patterns.
2. Morphology deals with words and syntax with sentences.
(a) Students hear a model language.
(b) Students repeat each line of the dialogue
(c) Students focus on the grammatical rules.
(d) Students practise substitution in the pattern drills.
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Answer: (c) Students focus on the grammatical rules.
Explanation:
1. The audiolingual method relies on listening, repetition, memorisation and pattern drills.
2. Explicit explanation of grammar rules is avoided.
Teacher's Note:
1. Audiolingualism is based on behaviourism: habit formation through repetition.
2. Rules are learned inductively through patterns, not taught explicitly.
(a) Structural approach
(b) Communicative approach
(c) Behaviouristic approach
(d) Whole language approach
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Answer: (b) Communicative approach
Explanation:
1. The communicative approach aims at using language for real communication.
2. It gives priority to fluency and meaning over perfect accuracy.
Teacher's Note:
1. Communicative language teaching stresses interaction and meaningful tasks.
2. Structural and behaviouristic approaches stress accuracy of form.
(a) Non-flexible in nature
(b) Teacher-centric
(c) Child-centric
(d) One-way method
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Answer: (c) Child-centric
Explanation:
1. A good learning plan is built around the needs, interests and pace of the learner.
2. It is flexible and interactive, not rigid or one-way.
Teacher's Note:
1. Modern pedagogy (NCF) is child-centred.
2. Plans should be flexible and adapted to learners.
(a) Error analysis
(b) Contrastive analysis
(c) Sentence analysis
(d) Word analysis
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Answer: (a) Error analysis
Explanation:
1. Error analysis systematically studies the mistakes learners make to find their causes.
2. Contrastive analysis compares two languages.
Teacher's Note:
1. Error analysis treats errors as clues to the learner's developing language.
2. Contrastive analysis predicts errors from differences between L1 and L2.
(a) Grammar translation method
(b) Direct method
(c) Activity based learning
(d) Eclecticism
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Answer: (d) Eclecticism
Explanation:
1. Eclecticism combines the best techniques from many methods according to learners' needs.
2. So the teacher must know all the methods.
Teacher's Note:
1. An eclectic approach is flexible and not tied to one method.
2. No single method suits every class.
(a) makes judgements of the learner's skills in a specific period of time.
(b) focuses on the learner's process.
(c) has more recognition in educative institutes.
(d) correcting the students immediately as they commit mistake/errors.
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Answer: (b) focuses on the learner's process.
Explanation:
1. Formative assessment is ongoing and monitors the learning process to give feedback.
2. Judging performance at a fixed time describes summative assessment.
Teacher's Note:
1. Formative = assessment for learning; summative = assessment of learning.
2. Immediate correction is only one possible technique, not the definition.
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