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Question 1: Which of the following do NOT come under institutional writing?
a. Reviews
b. Curriculum Vitae
c. Condolence message
d. Diary entry
(a) a and b
(b) c and d
(c) b and c
(d) d and a
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Answer: (b) c and d

Explanation:
1. Institutional writing is formal writing for organisations, such as reviews and CVs.
2. Condolence messages and diary entries are personal writing.

Teacher's Note:
1. Personal writing: diary, personal letters, messages.
2. Institutional writing: reports, applications, CVs.

Question 2: Constructivist approach is different from the communicative approach in that it focuses:
(a) primarily on meaning and expects that the form will be learnt in the process
(b) primarily on form and expects that the meaning will be comprehended in the process
(c) on use and knowledge of form
(d) on drilling and habit formation
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Answer: (a) primarily on meaning and expects that the form will be learnt in the process

Explanation:
1. Constructivism lets learners construct meaning and learn form in the process.
2. The key therefore selects (a).

Teacher's Note:
1. Option (a) also describes communicative teaching, so the item is weak.
2. Drilling is behaviourist.

Question 3: A teacher is teaching note making to class 7 learners. Which skill do you find most important to take notes effectively?
(a) writing fluently, using conjunctions
(b) using symbols and abbreviations instead of words
(c) re-writing a text, using your own words
(d) writing legibly with correct punctuation
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Answer: (b) using symbols and abbreviations instead of words

Explanation:
1. Notes need to be brief and quick.
2. Symbols and abbreviations shorten the notes.

Teacher's Note:
1. Note making is not copying or rewriting the text.
2. Use headings, keywords and abbreviations.

Question 4: While teaching new vocabulary a teacher should ______
(a) write the meaning of the word in the home language of the learner.
(b) encourage learners to use a dictionary for every new and difficult word in the text.
(c) enable learners to use the words in different contexts.
(d) ask learners to memorise its spelling for a dictation test.
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Answer: (c) enable learners to use the words in different contexts.

Explanation:
1. Vocabulary is learnt best when learners meet and use words in varied contexts.

Teacher's Note:
1. Rote memorisation gives poor retention.
2. Contextual use builds deep knowledge.

Question 5: A teacher of class 6 draws the attention of learners to a grammar item while reading the text and then provides them with plenty of real-life situations where that grammar item has been used. She then scaffolds them to draw the rules of the grammar item. What is this known as?
(a) Grammar in context
(b) Grammar in text
(c) Grammar with learners
(d) Grammar in translation
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Answer: (a) Grammar in context

Explanation:
1. Grammar is noticed in use and the rules are derived inductively from examples.
2. This is grammar in context.

Teacher's Note:
1. Inductive, context-based grammar is preferred in primary classes.
2. Isolated rule-giving is deductive.

Question 6: A teacher observes that a child comfortably writes and does other things with her left hand. She must be:
(a) stopped immediately and made to use the right hand to perform these activities.
(b) encouraged in her preference without interfering or stopping her.
(c) given ample practice by her parents to write with the right hand.
(d) taken to a special teacher to overcome this problem.
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Answer: (b) encouraged in her preference without interfering or stopping her.

Explanation:
1. Left-handedness is natural, not a disability or problem.
2. Forcing a change harms the child, so her preference should be encouraged.

Teacher's Note:
1. Never force a left-handed child to switch hands.
2. Provide suitable seating and writing support instead.

Question 7: A child might be awarded high marks for 'overall language use', even if he or she has misspelt many words, under the ______ approach.
(a) Whole language
(b) Structural approach
(c) Grammar translation
(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 use.
2. Minor errors like spelling are not penalised heavily.

Teacher's Note:
1. Whole language: authentic texts, meaning first, errors tolerated.
2. Structural and behaviourist approaches stress accuracy.

Question 8: Which one of the following strategies do you find important to teach in the multilingual classroom?
(a) Code-switching and code-mixing
(b) Translation between the language of the classroom and children's L1
(c) Forming language groups in the class
(d) No special strategy is required for multilingualism
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Answer: (a) Code-switching and code-mixing

Explanation:
1. In multilingual classes, learners' languages are used as resources.
2. Code-switching and code-mixing let teacher and learners move between languages to build understanding.

Teacher's Note:
1. Multilingualism is a resource, not a problem.
2. Option (d) is clearly wrong.

Question 9: Summative assessment:
(a) is diagnostic and remedial
(b) provides effective feedback to students and their parents
(c) allows the active involvement of the learners in the teaching learning process
(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. Its purpose is to judge and grade learning and performance.

Teacher's Note:
1. Formative assessment is diagnostic and ongoing.
2. Summative = assessment of learning.

Question 10: Read the following and choose the correct alternative.
Assertion (A): Reading and writing skills help in critical thinking at primary level.
Reason (R): Critical thinking is a sub-skill of reading and writing.
(a) A is true, R is not true
(b) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(c) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A
(d) A is not true but R is true
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Answer: (a) A is true, R is not true

Explanation:
1. Reading and writing do develop critical thinking, so A is true.
2. Critical thinking is a thinking skill, not a sub-skill of reading and writing, so R is false.

Teacher's Note:
1. Check A and R separately first.
2. Critical thinking is a general cognitive skill that reading and writing help develop.

Question 11: What is NOT true about West's New Method of teaching English?
(a) He laid more emphasis on reading skills, particularly for Indian children
(b) Children can improve their language by reading printed English material
(c) He was against teaching formal grammar
(d) A large vocabulary and command of idioms and phrases is highly appreciated
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Answer: (d) A large vocabulary and command of idioms and phrases is highly appreciated

Explanation:
1. West's New Method stressed reading, with a controlled, limited vocabulary and little formal grammar.
2. So a large vocabulary and idiom command is not appreciated.

Teacher's Note:
1. West: reading first, limited vocabulary (General Service List).
2. The method was designed for Indian conditions.

Question 12: Ms Sangeeta uses pre-reading strategies in her class because she wants
(a) her students to excel in their English examination.
(b) to arouse her students' interest in the topic
(c) to give her students more homework.
(d) her students to study on their own
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Answer: (b) to arouse her students' interest in the topic

Explanation:
1. Pre-reading activities motivate learners and activate prior knowledge about the topic.

Teacher's Note:
1. Pre-reading: predict, discuss, picture talk.
2. It is a preparation stage, not an exam strategy.

Question 13: The poem that interests the primary level learner most is
(a) a moral based poem
(b) a reflective poem
(c) a rhyming poem
(d) an epic poem
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Answer: (c) a rhyming poem

Explanation:
1. Young children enjoy rhythm, rhyme and sound play.
2. So rhyming poems interest them most.

Teacher's Note:
1. Use action rhymes and songs in primary classes.
2. Reflective and epic poems are too abstract and long.

Question 14: Which of the following is NOT true of vocabulary learning?
(a) Vocabulary is a precondition for speaking and understanding the language.
(b) It is important to move from meaning to form of the word while introducing words to young learners.
(c) Most learning at the primary level is vocabulary learning.
(d) Grammar is important for learning vocabulary.
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Answer: (d) Grammar is important for learning vocabulary.

Explanation:
1. Words are the base of speaking and understanding; young learners go from meaning to form; early learning is mostly vocabulary.
2. Grammar is not a prerequisite for learning vocabulary, so (d) is not true.

Teacher's Note:
1. Vocabulary comes first; grammar develops with use.
2. At primary level, meaning-focused word learning dominates.

Question 15: Which of the following is NOT considered an authentic activity in the materials?
(a) Based on the reading of the text on ..., write a letter to your friend on the ideas of the text.
(b) Write a paragraph on 'a cow' in about two hundred words.
(c) Create a sub-text of the story and write the events of the story in ten points.
(d) Complete the paragraph supplying the missing words based on your reading of the story.
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Answer: (b) Write a paragraph on 'a cow' in about two hundred words.

Explanation:
1. Authentic tasks have a real purpose and audience.
2. Writing a fixed-length paragraph on 'a cow' has neither.

Teacher's Note:
1. Letters to a friend, summaries and cloze based on a text are purposeful.
2. Avoid topic-only composition tasks.

Question 16: A learner uses key words to construct a schema of the discourse and infers the setting for a text while listening. Which listening strategy does he adopt?
(a) Top-down strategies
(b) Both top-down and bottom-up strategies
(c) Neither bottom-up nor top-down strategies
(d) Bottom-up strategies
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Answer: (a) Top-down strategies

Explanation:
1. Using schema, prior knowledge and inference to build meaning is top-down processing.
2. Bottom-up would mean decoding sounds and words one by one.

Teacher's Note:
1. Top-down: context and background knowledge.
2. Bottom-up: sounds, words, grammar.

Question 17: What does 'innateness' refer to in language acquisition?
(a) The natural ability of humans to speak a language.
(b) The ability of learners to learn many languages.
(c) The ability of learners in school to code-switch from one language to another.
(d) The ability of humans to think in a language.
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Answer: (a) The natural ability of humans to speak a language.

Explanation:
1. The innateness hypothesis (Chomsky) says humans are born with a natural capacity for language.

Teacher's Note:
1. Chomsky: Language Acquisition Device and Universal Grammar.
2. It is an inborn ability, not a learnt one.

Question 18: Knowledge about form, describing it and applying it in limited practice is ______
(a) Procedural knowledge
(b) Communicative competence
(c) Grammar in communication
(d) Declarative knowledge
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Answer: (d) Declarative knowledge

Explanation:
1. Knowing about a form and being able to describe it is declarative knowledge (knowing that).
2. Procedural knowledge is using it fluently.

Teacher's Note:
1. Declarative = knowing about; procedural = knowing how.
2. Fluent use needs much practice.

Question 19: Which of the following might be the best strategy for developing vocabulary among students?
(a) Memorising antonyms and synonyms.
(b) Guessing the meaning of new words in a given context.
(c) Consulting the dictionary for every new word.
(d) Making sentences of all the new words.
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Answer: (b) Guessing the meaning of new words in a given context.

Explanation:
1. Inferring meaning from context builds understanding and independence.
2. Memorising or checking every word is slower and less lasting.

Teacher's Note:
1. Context clues are a key reading strategy.
2. Dictionaries are for confirming, not for every word.

Question 20: All children are born with an inner ability of language acquisition consisting of
(a) universal truth
(b) universal method
(c) universal vocabulary
(d) universal grammar
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Answer: (d) universal grammar

Explanation:
1. Chomsky proposed that children are born with Universal Grammar, the innate base of language acquisition.

Teacher's Note:
1. Chomsky: LAD and UG.
2. Vocabulary is learnt, not innate.

Question 21: A teacher of class V presented to her learners vocabulary not as individual words but as unanalysed chunks like 'as far as possible', 'wherever possible', 'whenever possible' and so on. What is this method or approach known as?
(a) Word chunks
(b) Phrasal chunks
(c) Lexical approach
(d) Communicative approach
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Answer: (c) Lexical approach

Explanation:
1. Teaching vocabulary as multi-word chunks is the Lexical Approach.

Teacher's Note:
1. Lexical Approach: language = chunks and collocations.
2. Chunks are the unit of teaching; the approach has a name.

Question 22: A novel is ______
(a) an argumentative writing
(b) a persuasive writing
(c) a comparative writing
(d) a narrative writing
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Answer: (d) a narrative writing

Explanation:
1. A novel tells a story with characters and events, so it is narrative writing.

Teacher's Note:
1. Narrative = story.
2. Argumentative and persuasive writing aim to convince.

Question 23: An approach to writing which advocates 'learning to write by writing' is known as ______
(a) Process Approach
(b) Product Approach
(c) Cognitive Approach
(d) Constructive Approach
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Answer: (a) Process Approach

Explanation:
1. The process approach has learners write, revise and reflect repeatedly, so they learn to write by writing.

Teacher's Note:
1. Process: plan, draft, revise, edit.
2. Product approach copies a model text.

Question 24: A teacher of class VI found that there are about seven languages in her classroom. She uses the languages of learners to teach and learn languages and content subjects. What is this strategy known as?
(a) Multilingualism
(b) Translanguaging
(c) Multi language teaching
(d) Translation as a method
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Answer: (b) Translanguaging

Explanation:
1. Flexible use of all of learners' languages for learning is translanguaging.

Teacher's Note:
1. Translanguaging treats all languages as one repertoire.
2. Multilingualism is the situation, not the strategy.

Question 25: India's language-in-education policy is known as ______
(a) Language-in-education policy
(b) Mother tongue as a medium of education
(c) First language, second language and English
(d) Three language formula
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Answer: (d) Three language formula

Explanation:
1. India's policy for languages in schools is the Three Language Formula.

Teacher's Note:
1. Recommended by the Kothari Commission and retained in NEP 2020.
2. Option (a) just repeats the term.

Question 26: A teacher writes words and short sentences as language chunks in context as unanalysed wholes. She then gives the chunks in context for use by learners. What method or approach of teaching vocabulary does this reflect?
(a) Vocabulary as chunks
(b) Lexical approach
(c) Communicative approach
(d) Structural approach
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Answer: (b) Lexical approach

Explanation:
1. Presenting language as unanalysed chunks in context is the Lexical Approach.

Teacher's Note:
1. Lewis: language is grammaticalised lexis.
2. Structural approach teaches sentence patterns.

Question 27: Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) refers to ______
(a) using language for general day-to-day language functions
(b) using language for a conversation at a birthday party
(c) language use for abstract ideas and higher order language skills
(d) reading a short story of interest as a pastime routine
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Answer: (c) language use for abstract ideas and higher order language skills

Explanation:
1. Cummins's CALP is the language needed for abstract thinking and academic learning.

Teacher's Note:
1. BICS is everyday conversation.
2. CALP takes longer, about five to seven years, to develop.

Question 28: Reema just finished telling her students a story about a snake. After finishing the story, she asked her students, "Imagine being a snake. What do you think happened to you?" By doing this Reema is helping her students:
(a) understand grammar better
(b) become imaginative and creative
(c) understand the language better
(d) become prolific readers
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Answer: (b) become imaginative and creative

Explanation:
1. Imagining oneself as the snake calls for imagination and creative thinking.

Teacher's Note:
1. Open-ended tasks develop creativity.
2. Such tasks have no single correct answer.

Question 29: Which of the following is NOT a principle of Total Physical Response?
(a) Meaning of the target language can be conveyed through actions
(b) Learners learn best by doing
(c) Reading comprehension is very important
(d) Listening comprehension should precede other skills
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Answer: (c) Reading comprehension is very important

Explanation:
1. TPR (Asher) teaches through commands and actions, with listening first.
2. Reading is not stressed early.

Teacher's Note:
1. TPR: listen, act, speak later.
2. It links language with movement.

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