Objective Questions and Answers: 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. Designing learning activities and tasks
B. Instructing, monitoring and assessing students' progress
C. Stating the objectives of the course
D. Identifying topics, themes and situations
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(a) A, B, C and D
(b) B, A, C and D
(c) C, D, A and B
(d) C, B, A and D
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Answer: (c) C, D, A and B
Explanation:
1. Course planning starts with objectives, then content (topics, themes, situations).
2. Next come activities and tasks, and finally teaching and assessment: C, D, A, B.
Teacher's Note:
1. Follow the planning cycle: objectives, content, activities, delivery and assessment.
2. Teaching comes only after planning.
(a) Identifying learner's communicative needs
(b) Selecting the content for teaching
(c) Grouping learners into different classes
(d) Instructing the learner
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Answer: (a) Identifying learner's communicative needs
Explanation:
1. The classroom teacher is closest to the learners and so best placed to find their communicative needs.
2. Content selection and grouping into classes are usually decided at syllabus or school level.
Teacher's Note:
1. Needs analysis is a teacher role in a learner-centred classroom.
2. Instructing is a task, but the stress here is on learners' needs.
(a) mastering the elements of language
(b) learning the rules of language
(c) mastering the functional skills
(d) mastering the lexis of language
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Answer: (c) mastering the functional skills
Explanation:
1. Language learning is mainly about being able to use language to communicate.
2. This means mastering the functional skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Teacher's Note:
1. Modern approaches favour use over knowledge of rules.
2. Grammar and vocabulary are means to the skills.
(a) grammar
(b) vocabulary
(c) topics
(d) tasks
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Answer: (d) tasks
Explanation:
1. A procedural syllabus (Prabhu) is built around tasks that learners carry out.
2. Grammar-based syllabi are structural and topic-based syllabi are thematic.
Teacher's Note:
1. Procedural syllabus is linked with the Bangalore project and task-based teaching.
2. Learners acquire language through doing tasks.
(a) the level of language that learners have reached.
(b) the language that students have been taught.
(c) the multisensory learning experiences.
(d) the language of daily conversation.
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Answer: (a) the level of language that learners have reached.
Explanation:
1. A proficiency test measures the level of language ability reached, regardless of any course.
2. Testing what was taught is an achievement test.
Teacher's Note:
1. TOEFL and IELTS are proficiency tests.
2. Proficiency is independent of the syllabus.
(a) generate interest in a topic.
(b) give peer feedback
(c) write a text review.
(d) test their memory.
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Answer: (a) generate interest in a topic.
Explanation:
1. A quiz done before reading is a pre-reading activity.
2. Its aim is to arouse interest and activate prior knowledge.
Teacher's Note:
1. Pre-reading activities create interest and prepare learners.
2. Testing memory is a post-reading goal.
(a) first talk to the child to offer remedies.
(b) address the diligent students.
(c) depend on the parents to offer remedies.
(d) report the behaviour of the student to the school authority.
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Answer: (a) first talk to the child to offer remedies.
Explanation:
1. A caring teacher first tries to understand the cause by talking to the child.
2. Reporting or relying on others should come later, if needed.
Teacher's Note:
1. Positive, child-friendly handling is stressed in RTE and NCF.
2. Avoid punishment or public embarrassment.
(a) Teaching letters of alphabet
(b) Teaching vocabulary
(c) Creating language rich environment
(d) Teaching early writing skills
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Answer: (c) Creating language rich environment
Explanation:
1. Labels on classroom objects expose learners to print in two languages.
2. This builds a print-rich, language-rich environment.
Teacher's Note:
1. Labelling is a typical way to create a print-rich classroom.
2. It is not a one-time vocabulary lesson.
(a) We need to perceive and decode letters in order to read words.
(b) We can read without necessarily being able to identify and decode single letters.
(c) We don't need to understand all the words in order to understand the meaning of a text.
(d) It does not necessarily take longer to read a text which has more symbols.
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Answer: (a) We need to perceive and decode letters in order to read words.
Explanation:
1. Fluent readers recognise whole words and chunks, not every single letter.
2. So the claim that we must decode letters to read words is not always true.
Teacher's Note:
1. Reading is a meaning-making process using context and prediction.
2. Skilled readers use top-down and bottom-up strategies together.
(a) being critical of how language learning takes place.
(b) a learner analysing issues and concepts rationally and coming to an informed understanding
(c) make a learner to provide counter argument for issues and concepts
(d) thinking alternative ways to solve a problem
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Answer: (b) a learner analysing issues and concepts rationally and coming to an informed understanding
Explanation:
1. Critical pedagogy encourages learners to question and analyse issues rationally.
2. They then reach an informed understanding.
Teacher's Note:
1. Freire is associated with critical pedagogy.
2. It is more than arguing against ideas.
Person 1: Hello! How are you? Glad that you have come back.
Person 2: Hello! How are you? I am doing well. What about you?
Person 1: I am fine. How is your health now?
Person 2: Improving. I am able to work now.
(a) Personal communication
(b) Informative purpose
(c) Transactional purpose
(d) Interactional purpose
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Answer: (d) Interactional purpose
Explanation:
1. The talk is about greetings and well-being, not about exchanging goods or information.
2. Such social talk to maintain relationships is interactional.
Teacher's Note:
1. Transactional language gets things done; interactional language builds relationships.
2. Greetings and small talk are interactional.
(a) Sign language has a grammar.
(b) Sign language is a natural language.
(c) Sign language does not have a grammar.
(d) There are many varieties of Sign Language.
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Answer: (c) Sign language does not have a grammar.
Explanation:
1. Sign languages are natural languages with their own grammar.
2. So the statement that it has no grammar is false.
Teacher's Note:
1. Sign languages differ across countries, e.g. ISL and ASL.
2. They are not mere gestures.
(a) every learner studies in English medium along with their languages in school.
(b) every learner studies in their mother tongue during the primary years and moves to English in class VI.
(c) every learner begins her schooling in mother tongue and moves on to add two or many languages as they progress.
(d) every learner begins with the state language and moves on to add two or many languages as they progress.
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Answer: (c) every learner begins her schooling in mother tongue and moves on to add two or many languages as they progress.
Explanation:
1. Mother-tongue based multilingual education starts schooling in the home language.
2. Other languages are then added as the learner progresses.
Teacher's Note:
1. NCF and NEP 2020 support the mother tongue as the early medium.
2. It adds languages and does not replace the mother tongue.
(a) Learning outcomes need to align with the learning objectives.
(b) Learning outcomes are much more than learning objectives.
(c) Learning objectives are less than the learning outcomes.
(d) Learning outcomes has no relationship with objectives.
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Answer: (d) Learning outcomes has no relationship with objectives.
Explanation:
1. Outcomes must align with objectives, because they show what was achieved against them.
2. The statement that outcomes have no relationship with objectives is therefore not true.
Teacher's Note:
1. Objectives state the intent; outcomes show achievement.
2. Alignment of both with assessment is basic to planning.
(a) Introduction of English language as a medium from class I.
(b) Introduction of study of a foreign language at the secondary stage.
(c) Introduction of study of a classical language at the secondary stage.
(d) Mother tongue / Home language / local language as medium during the foundational years.
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Answer: (a) Introduction of English language as a medium from class I.
Explanation:
1. NEP 2020 recommends the home language or mother tongue as the medium at least till class 5.
2. So English as a medium from class I is not its recommendation.
Teacher's Note:
1. NEP offers foreign languages and classical languages at the secondary stage.
2. The emphasis is on multilingualism, not English-only schooling.
(a) Language is a system of symbols
(b) Language is static
(c) Symbols of language are arbitrary
(d) Language is unique
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Answer: (b) Language is static
Explanation:
1. Language is a system of arbitrary symbols and is unique to humans.
2. It is dynamic, constantly changing, so calling it static is not true.
Teacher's Note:
1. New words appear and meanings change with time.
2. Arbitrariness means no natural link between a word and its meaning.
(a) Phoneme
(b) Morpheme
(c) Syntax
(d) Semantics
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Answer: (a) Phoneme
Explanation:
1. A phoneme is the smallest sound unit that changes meaning, as in pat and bat.
2. A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Phoneme concerns sound; morpheme concerns meaning.
2. Syntax is sentence structure and semantics is meaning.
(a) Cultural differences
(b) Lack of attention and interest
(c) Physical disability
(d) Active listening
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Answer: (d) Active listening
Explanation:
1. Cultural differences, inattention and physical disability can hinder communication.
2. Active listening helps communication and so is not a barrier.
Teacher's Note:
1. Active listening is a skill that removes barriers.
2. Read NOT questions carefully.
(a) Reading skill
(b) Speaking skill
(c) Writing skill
(d) Listening skill
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Answer: (c) Writing skill
Explanation:
1. Brainstorming, drafting, editing and revising are stages of the writing process.
2. So the skill reflected is writing.
Teacher's Note:
1. The writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing.
2. Key verbs in the stem point to the skill.
Assertion (A): Reading and writing skills help in critical thinking at the primary level.
Reason (R): Critical thinking is a sub-skill of reading and writing.
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(c) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(d) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
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Answer: (d) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
Explanation:
1. Reading and writing do help develop critical thinking, so (A) is true.
2. Critical thinking is a general thinking skill, not a sub-skill of reading and writing, so (R) is false.
Teacher's Note:
1. Check A and R separately before judging the link.
2. Critical thinking is developed through reading and writing, not part of them.
(a) with the help of challenging and mechanical language drills.
(b) if the teacher focuses on one skill at a time.
(c) if they are dealt with in an integrated manner.
(d) only through tests written and assignments.
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Answer: (c) if they are dealt with in an integrated manner.
Explanation:
1. In real life, listening, speaking, reading and writing are used together.
2. So the skills are best learnt in an integrated manner.
Teacher's Note:
1. NCF stresses integrated skill teaching.
2. Mechanical drills and tests alone do not build communication.
(a) reads simple words comprising at least 2 to 3 alphabets.
(b) reads small sentences consisting of at least 4 to 5 simple words in an age appropriate unknown text.
(c) reads with meaning 45-60 words per minute.
(d) reads with meaning at least 60 words per minute.
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Answer: (d) reads with meaning at least 60 words per minute.
Explanation:
1. NIPUN Bharat sets for the end of Grade 3 the ability to read with meaning at least 60 words per minute.
2. The other options describe lower, earlier-grade targets.
Teacher's Note:
1. Remember 60 words per minute for class 3.
2. Earlier grades have lower fluency targets.
(a) Reading for pleasure
(b) Intensive Reading
(c) Skimming
(d) Extensive Reading
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Answer: (b) Intensive Reading
Explanation:
1. Reading closely to examine language details is intensive reading.
2. Extensive reading is wide reading for pleasure and skimming is for the gist.
Teacher's Note:
1. Intensive: short text, detail and accuracy; extensive: long texts, fluency.
2. Spotting grammar items needs close reading.
(a) Brainstorming
(b) Reviewing
(c) Editing
(d) Revising
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Answer: (a) Brainstorming
Explanation:
1. Generating ideas freely before writing is brainstorming.
2. Reviewing, editing and revising happen after drafting.
Teacher's Note:
1. Pre-writing includes brainstorming, mind maps and discussion.
2. Editing and revising are post-writing steps.
(a) share an incident when they were surprised.
(b) circle the verbs and adjectives in the text.
(c) correct the mistakes in the use of describing words.
(d) read a story and answer comprehension-based questions.
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Answer: (a) share an incident when they were surprised.
Explanation:
1. Narrative skill means telling an event in an organised way.
2. Asking students to narrate an incident tests this directly.
Teacher's Note:
1. Assess the skill by asking learners to use it.
2. Identifying or correcting words tests grammar, not narration.
(a) Intensive reading
(b) Shared reading
(c) Extensive reading
(d) Guided reading
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Answer: (c) Extensive reading
Explanation:
1. Reading many books outside the syllabus for pleasure and fluency is extensive reading.
Teacher's Note:
1. Extensive reading builds fluency and a reading habit.
2. Intensive reading is the close reading of a short text.
(a) Present, prepare and practice the material
(b) Usability, repetition and production of utterances
(c) Observation, feedback sessions and written reports
(d) Checklist, assumptions and learning outcomes
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Answer: (c) Observation, feedback sessions and written reports
Explanation:
1. Monitoring how learners use materials is done through observing them, getting feedback and keeping records.
2. Observation, feedback sessions and written reports fit this.
Teacher's Note:
1. Monitoring needs evidence from actual use.
2. The other options mix teaching steps or planning terms.
(a) experiment with uttering articulate sounds but not producing any recognisable word.
(b) pleasant vowel like noises made by infants beginning around 2 months.
(c) repetition of consonant-vowel combinations in long strings, beginning around six months of age.
(d) short sentences with high pitched exaggerated intonation spoken by adults.
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Answer: (a) experiment with uttering articulate sounds but not producing any recognisable word.
Explanation:
1. Babbling is experimenting with articulate speech sounds without yet producing recognisable words.
2. Option (b) describes cooing and (d) describes motherese.
Teacher's Note:
1. Cooing starts around 2 months and babbling around 6 months.
2. Option (c) also describes babbling in detail, so the question is weak.
(a) Multiple choice questions
(b) Graphic organisers
(c) Summarising
(d) Predicting
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Answer: (d) Predicting
Explanation:
1. Predicting is done before or during reading, to guess what comes next.
2. MCQs, graphic organisers and summarising are suitable after reading.
Teacher's Note:
1. Pre-reading: predicting, discussion; while-reading: questioning; post-reading: summarising and reflection.
2. Match each activity to its stage.
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