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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.

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Question 1: A teacher creates an input-rich environment in the class to help her primary graders in language learning. This type of environment will help the child to:
(a) memorise the grammatical rules of the target language
(b) understand the structure of language
(c) learn language by translating the target language into home language
(d) provide opportunity where the language is seen, noticed and learnt
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Answer: (d) provide opportunity where the language is seen, noticed and learnt

Explanation:
1. An input-rich classroom has print, stories, songs and talk all around the child.
2. The child sees and notices the language and acquires it naturally, as in option (d).

Teacher's Note:
1. Language acquisition depends on plentiful meaningful input.
2. Rule memorisation and translation are not the aim at primary level.

Question 2: The steps in process writing begin with:
(a) brainstorming
(b) creating a draft
(c) reviewing
(d) publishing
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Answer: (a) brainstorming

Explanation:
1. Process writing runs pre-writing, drafting, revising/editing and publishing.
2. Pre-writing starts with brainstorming ideas, so (a) is first.

Teacher's Note:
1. Brainstorming generates ideas before any drafting.
2. Publishing is the last step, not the first.

Question 3: Megha bought an oven and she wanted to learn how to operate it. She began to read the instructions specifically to know which button to operate and reading the instructions to operate the oven. This sub-skill of reading is known as ______
(a) Scanning
(b) Predicting
(c) Skimming
(d) Comprehending
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Answer: (a) Scanning

Explanation:
1. She reads only to find specific information (which button to press).
2. Reading for specific details is scanning.

Teacher's Note:
1. Scanning is for specific details; skimming is for the general idea.
2. Think of looking up a phone number versus glancing through a newspaper.

Question 4: A teacher of class VII asks her learners to plan a trip to a nearby city. Learners have to plan from the beginning of booking a bus, creating an itinerary and so on. This takes place in groups of five. Later the groups share and finalise the tour programme. What is this piece of work called in language teaching-learning?
(a) Language learning task
(b) Class discussion for language learning
(c) Group language generation
(d) Brain storming
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Answer: (a) Language learning task

Explanation:
1. It is a goal-oriented, meaning-focused activity with a real outcome (a tour plan).
2. Such work is a language learning task.

Teacher's Note:
1. Tasks have a clear outcome and use language as a tool.
2. Task-based learning is a core communicative idea.

Question 5: Read the following statements and choose the correct option:
Assertion (A): A plan for individualised learning must be created by a language teacher.
Reason (R): There is diversity in learners in the learning of new languages.
(a) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(c) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(d) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
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Answer: (d) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Explanation:
1. Learners differ in pace, style and background in language learning (R true).
2. This diversity is exactly why individual plans are needed, so R explains A.

Teacher's Note:
1. In assertion-reason items ask: does R answer 'why' for A?
2. Diversity of learners is the standard justification for differentiated instruction.

Question 6: Chetan's first language was Bhojpuri. Since arriving in Tamil Nadu, he no longer speaks Bhojpuri and only speaks English with the natives. When the new second language replaces the native language, this is an example of:
(a) Code-mixing
(b) Subtractive bilingualism
(c) Code-switching
(d) Bilingualism
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Answer: (b) Subtractive bilingualism

Explanation:
1. The second language is learnt at the cost of the first language, which is lost.
2. This is subtractive bilingualism.

Teacher's Note:
1. Additive bilingualism adds a language while keeping the first.
2. Code-mixing and switching mean alternating languages, not replacing one.

Question 7: Which of the following may NOT occur in expressive language disorder?
(a) Difficulty in understanding place value
(b) Limited amount of speech
(c) Difficulty learning new words
(d) Difficulty finding the right word
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Answer: (a) Difficulty in understanding place value

Explanation:
1. Expressive language disorder affects producing speech: limited speech, word-finding and new-word problems.
2. Understanding place value is a mathematical concept, not a feature of it.

Teacher's Note:
1. Expressive disorder concerns output; receptive disorder concerns understanding.
2. Place value difficulty relates to dyscalculia.

Question 8: Which of the following is a characteristic of extensive reading?
(a) Reading for fluency involves reading of longer text for pleasure
(b) Reading for accuracy involves approaching a text under the close guidance of a teacher
(c) Glancing rapidly through the text to find out some piece of information
(d) Going through the text quickly in order to get the gist
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Answer: (a) Reading for fluency involves reading of longer text for pleasure

Explanation:
1. Extensive reading means reading longer texts for pleasure and fluency.
2. Options (b), (c), (d) describe intensive reading, scanning and skimming.

Teacher's Note:
1. Extensive = quantity and enjoyment; intensive = close study.
2. Scanning finds details; skimming finds the gist.

Question 9: A teacher conducts an activity in the class. Students are asked to form a circle. She starts the story with 'Once there was a brave girl in a small town of Rajasthan. Her name was Riya.' Then each student in the circle is asked to add a sentence to complete the story in a meaningful way. The process takes a few more minutes till the story reaches its end. This activity is an example of:
(a) content assisted language learning
(b) cognitive academic language proficiency
(c) basic interpersonal communication system
(d) content integrated language learning
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Answer: (b) cognitive academic language proficiency

Explanation:
1. The key given treats the story-building as developing cognitive academic language proficiency (narrative, sequencing, coherence).
2. The other options name an approach or a conversational skill that does not fit as well.

Teacher's Note:
1. CALP is the language of thinking and academic tasks.
2. The item is debatable, since oral chain stories also resemble BICS.

Question 10: Content subjects like science, maths and social science have specific use of language to convey ideas, concepts and meanings. A language teacher in collaboration with subject teachers attempts to use this aspect of language to teach language. What is this known as?
(a) Register based language teaching
(b) Language through content
(c) Content through language
(d) Content across language
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Answer: (a) Register based language teaching

Explanation:
1. Subject areas have their own registers (specialised vocabulary and structures).
2. Using these registers to teach language is register based teaching.

Teacher's Note:
1. A register is language variety linked to a field or context.
2. Do not confuse it with CLIL, which teaches content through a language.

Question 11: Objects and things are used by teachers for teaching-learning of vocabulary and other aspects of language. What are these materials?
(a) Play way materials
(b) Toys and games
(c) Realia
(d) Cultural materials
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Answer: (c) Realia

Explanation:
1. Real objects brought into the classroom for teaching are called realia.
2. Examples are fruit, coins, tickets and tools.

Teacher's Note:
1. Realia = real-life objects used as teaching aids.
2. They make vocabulary concrete, especially for young learners.

Question 12: A teacher of class VIII divides the class into groups of five and assigns the groups tasks of collection of data/information, analysing the data and writing a report collaboratively. What is this activity known as?
(a) Assignment
(b) Project work
(c) Home work
(d) Formative assessment
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Answer: (b) Project work

Explanation:
1. Collecting data, analysing it and reporting in groups over time is project work.

Teacher's Note:
1. Projects involve planning, investigation and a final product.
2. They build collaboration and real-life language use.

Question 13: A paragraph in English will be considered good if it:
(a) is in descriptive language
(b) is written in good handwriting
(c) has correct punctuation
(d) presents ideas in a coherent way
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Answer: (d) presents ideas in a coherent way

Explanation:
1. A good paragraph is judged mainly on organisation of ideas.
2. Coherence links ideas logically, which matters more than handwriting or punctuation alone.

Teacher's Note:
1. Coherence and cohesion define good discourse.
2. Handwriting and punctuation are mechanics, not the main criterion.

Question 14: A teacher of class VIII selected a passage from a newspaper and dropped every fifth word to be filled by her learners for their unit test. What type of question does this come under?
(a) Grammar question
(b) Cloze question
(c) Fill in the blanks
(d) Reading comprehension
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Answer: (b) Cloze question

Explanation:
1. Deleting words at a fixed interval (every nth word) is the cloze procedure.

Teacher's Note:
1. Cloze = systematic deletion at fixed intervals.
2. Ordinary fill-in-the-blanks delete selected words, not every nth.

Question 15: Which of the following steps is NOT from a task-based lesson?
(a) Students work in pairs.
(b) Teacher practises grammar using drills.
(c) Students learn by doing.
(d) Teacher provides a problem-solving activity.
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Answer: (b) Teacher practises grammar using drills.

Explanation:
1. Task-based lessons use pair work, doing and problem solving.
2. Drilling grammar belongs to audiolingual/structural methods.

Teacher's Note:
1. TBLT focuses on meaning and outcomes.
2. Drills are form-focused and mechanical.

Question 16: A teacher sets a question in the following manner. What is the test item known as?
Read the following passage and notice every fifth or sixth word is missing. Supply the missing word to make the passage meaningful.
(a) Cloze
(b) Fill in the blanks
(c) Grammar tasks
(d) Complete the story
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Answer: (a) Cloze

Explanation:
1. A passage with words missing at regular intervals is a cloze test.

Teacher's Note:
1. Cloze tests overall language and reading ability.
2. Remember: regular intervals mean cloze.

Question 17: The purpose of remedial teaching is to:
(a) introduce grammar to existing items.
(b) test the knowledge of the students.
(c) teach again the language items not properly learnt by the learners.
(d) teach language items to the learners.
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Answer: (c) teach again the language items not properly learnt by the learners.

Explanation:
1. Remedial teaching follows diagnosis of learning gaps.
2. It reteaches what learners have not learnt properly.

Teacher's Note:
1. Remedial teaching = diagnose, reteach, reassess.
2. It is not testing and not first-time teaching.

Question 18: Semantics is the study of ______
(a) sentences and their grammatical structure.
(b) words and their meaning.
(c) sounds and their articulation.
(d) phonemes and their sounds.
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Answer: (b) words and their meaning.

Explanation:
1. Semantics studies meaning in language: of words, phrases and sentences.
2. Syntax studies structure; phonetics studies sounds.

Teacher's Note:
1. Semantics = meaning; syntax = structure; phonology = sound system.
2. Learn the branches of linguistics as pairs.

Question 19: Which of the following factors is the most important for language proficiency?
(a) Reading with accurate pronunciation.
(b) Doing exercises in good handwriting.
(c) Developing accuracy and fluency.
(d) Using low cost teaching aids.
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Answer: (c) Developing accuracy and fluency.

Explanation:
1. Proficiency means using language correctly (accuracy) and smoothly (fluency).
2. Pronunciation alone or handwriting does not make a learner proficient.

Teacher's Note:
1. Accuracy and fluency are the two complementary goals of language teaching.
2. Over-stress on either harms proficiency.

Question 20: Which of the following supports a pre-reading teaching activity?
(a) Asking learners to summarise the text
(b) Using a prediction task
(c) Teaching grammatical structures
(d) Using paraphrasing tasks
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Answer: (b) Using a prediction task

Explanation:
1. Pre-reading activities prepare learners and activate prior knowledge.
2. Predicting content from title or pictures is a pre-reading task.

Teacher's Note:
1. Summarising and paraphrasing are post-reading.
2. Pre-reading builds interest and schema.

Question 21: Which of the following is true about remedial teaching?
(a) Providing support to improve performance
(b) Showing sympathy to backward students
(c) Providing extra marks to improve performance
(d) Giving extra attention to gifted children
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Answer: (a) Providing support to improve performance

Explanation:
1. Remedial teaching offers targeted support to overcome learning difficulties and improve performance.

Teacher's Note:
1. It is academic help, not sympathy or favouritism.
2. Gifted learners need enrichment, not remedial teaching.

Question 22: Read the following statements and choose the correct option:
Assertion (A): English is an associate official language in India.
Reason (R): English is taught as a foreign language in Indian schools.
(a) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(c) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(d) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
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Answer: (a) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

Explanation:
1. English is an associate official language of India, so A is true.
2. In Indian schools English is taught as a second language, not a foreign language, so R is false.

Teacher's Note:
1. English has a second-language status in India.
2. Check each statement separately before judging the link.

Question 23: Meena is able to recognise the word 'envisage' in a text or when it is spoken, but is not able to use it on her own. What would you call this vocabulary?
(a) Active vocabulary
(b) Passive vocabulary
(c) Difficult word
(d) New word
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Answer: (b) Passive vocabulary

Explanation:
1. Words understood but not used by the learner form passive (receptive) vocabulary.

Teacher's Note:
1. Active = used in speech/writing; passive = recognised only.
2. Passive vocabulary is usually larger than active.

Question 24: What is productive vocabulary?
(a) Words that we use in writing and speaking.
(b) Words which we recognise when someone speaks.
(c) Words which we notice while reading.
(d) Words which we do not understand.
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Answer: (a) Words that we use in writing and speaking.

Explanation:
1. Productive vocabulary is the set of words a person can use in speaking and writing.

Teacher's Note:
1. Productive = active; receptive = passive.
2. Productive skills are speaking and writing.

Question 25: Which of the following is an extrapolative writing task?
(a) Imagine you are the boy in the story. Write a letter to your friend describing your experience of the journey in which you met a stranger.
(b) Fill out the railway ticket reservation form to go to Nagpur.
(c) Read the poem as many times as possible and write the summary of the poem.
(d) Write the autobiography of a tree.
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Answer: (a) Imagine you are the boy in the story. Write a letter to your friend describing your experience of the journey in which you met a stranger.

Explanation:
1. Extrapolative tasks go beyond the text, extending it from the learner's imagination.
2. Writing as a character about a journey extends the story.

Teacher's Note:
1. Extrapolation = extending beyond given information.
2. Form filling is functional; summary is reproductive.

Question 26: The multilingual nature of the Indian classroom must be used as a resource so that every child can:
(a) learn various language skills
(b) learn different languages
(c) feel secure and accepted
(d) express in multiple ways
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Answer: (c) feel secure and accepted

Explanation:
1. NCF stresses that children's home languages are accepted in school as a resource.
2. This makes every child feel secure and accepted.

Teacher's Note:
1. Acceptance of home language builds confidence.
2. Multilingualism is a resource, not a problem.

Question 27: Which of the following is the most suitable statement about reading?
(a) Reading is just decoding symbols
(b) Reading is uttering the text correctly
(c) Reading is comprehending the text
(d) Reading is memorising the spellings in the text
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Answer: (c) Reading is comprehending the text

Explanation:
1. Reading is constructing meaning from print.
2. Decoding and pronouncing are only parts; comprehension is the goal.

Teacher's Note:
1. Reading = decoding plus comprehension.
2. Avoid defining reading as oral reproduction.

Question 28: What is receptive vocabulary?
(a) Words are mostly spelt correctly.
(b) Words read between the lines.
(c) Words that we use in writing and speaking.
(d) Words that we recognise when we hear or see.
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Answer: (d) Words that we recognise when we hear or see.

Explanation:
1. Receptive vocabulary is the words we understand when listening or reading.

Teacher's Note:
1. Receptive skills are listening and reading.
2. Productive vocabulary is used in speaking and writing.

Question 29: Mother tongue based multilingualism means ______
(a) learning in many languages in school.
(b) learners begin their schooling in the mother tongue/home language and move on to add at least two more languages.
(c) learners learn their local language, state language, Hindi, English and classical and foreign languages.
(d) learners learn through the medium of the state language and add Hindi and English.
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Answer: (b) learners begin their schooling in the mother tongue/home language and move on to add at least two more languages.

Explanation:
1. The approach starts schooling in the home language and then adds at least two further languages.

Teacher's Note:
1. The mother tongue is the base.
2. Note it is not just learning many languages.

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