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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: The Silent Way adopts a ______.
(a) structural syllabus
(b) communicative syllabus
(c) task based syllabus
(d) text based syllabus
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Answer: (a) structural syllabus

Explanation:
1. Gattegno's Silent Way builds language step by step through structures.
2. So it follows a structural syllabus.

Teacher's Note:
1. Silent Way uses rods and charts, with the teacher mostly silent.
2. It is a design-based, structure-led method.

Question 2: When words are combined to form acceptable phrases and sentences, it is called ______.
(a) Phonology
(b) Morphology
(c) Syntax
(d) Pragmatics
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Answer: (c) Syntax

Explanation:
1. Syntax is the study of how words combine into phrases and sentences.
2. Phonology deals with sounds and morphology with word structure.

Teacher's Note:
1. Syntax means sentence structure.
2. Pragmatics is meaning in context.

Question 3: In a classroom, while reading the text, a teacher is emphasizing the content words. It means she is focusing on ______.
(a) Nouns, demonstratives and conjunctions
(b) Nouns, prepositions and articles
(c) Nouns, quantifiers and auxiliaries
(d) Nouns, adjectives and adverbs
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Answer: (d) Nouns, adjectives and adverbs

Explanation:
1. Content (lexical) words carry meaning: nouns, main verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
2. Only option (d) lists content words alone.

Teacher's Note:
1. Function words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliaries) have grammatical roles.
2. Content words are usually stressed in speech.

Question 4: (A) Boy, love and sing are known as free morphemes.
(B) A free morpheme can stand alone as an independent single word.
(a) (A) is right but (B) is wrong
(b) (B) is right but (A) is wrong
(c) Both (A) and (B) are right and (B) is the explanation of (A)
(d) Both (A) and (B) are wrong.
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Answer: (c) Both (A) and (B) are right and (B) is the explanation of (A)

Explanation:
1. Boy, love and sing can stand alone as words, so they are free morphemes.
2. (B) states exactly why.

Teacher's Note:
1. Free morphemes can stand alone; bound morphemes (-ed, un-) cannot.
2. The definition explains the example.

Question 5: A teacher teaches her students first the questions with the 'Do' form (e.g. Do you like it?) before teaching the questions with interrogative words (e.g. What do you like to eat?). Teaching this way, which of the following principles is associated with it?
(a) Principle of Graded Pattern
(b) Principle of Teaching the Problems
(c) Principle of Patterns as Habits
(d) Principle of Shaping Responses
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Answer: (a) Principle of Graded Pattern

Explanation:
1. The simpler pattern is taught before the more complex one.
2. This is the principle of graded patterns.

Teacher's Note:
1. Grading means simple to complex.
2. Select and grade is a standard structural-approach principle.

Question 6: Which of the following activities is followed when the teacher is teaching to read a passage intensively?
(a) The teacher reads the passage aloud and explains the word meanings
(b) The teacher reads the passage and provides detailed explanation about the choice of words, mood and intention of the writer.
(c) The teacher reads the passage and gets students to ask for meanings of the words they don't understand
(d) The teacher reads the passage and gets students to underline the difficult word meanings.
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Answer: (b) The teacher reads the passage and provides detailed explanation about the choice of words, mood and intention of the writer.

Explanation:
1. Intensive reading means close, detailed study of a text.
2. Studying word choice, mood and the writer's intention is such close reading.

Teacher's Note:
1. Intensive reading goes deep into a short text.
2. Extensive reading is wide, for pleasure.

Question 7: ______ tests aim at testing the learner's ability to apply what she knows and has learnt about a language to a real-life situation.
(a) Competency
(b) Proficiency
(c) Achievement
(d) Performance
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Answer: (b) Proficiency

Explanation:
1. Proficiency tests measure overall ability to use language in real situations.
2. Achievement tests measure what was taught in a course.

Teacher's Note:
1. Proficiency tests are not tied to a syllabus.
2. Examples include IELTS and TOEFL.

Question 8: What does 'language register' denote?
(a) The social difference in language use by people.
(b) The variation in language according to the context in which it is used.
(c) Language use in an acceptable way in terms of its function and grammar.
(d) Use of language for official purposes and in government functions.
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Answer: (b) The variation in language according to the context in which it is used.

Explanation:
1. Register is the variety of language chosen for a context, such as formal or informal.
2. It depends on topic, audience and situation.

Teacher's Note:
1. Dialect is variation by user; register is variation by use.
2. Formal speech and legal language are registers.

Question 9: Competency based language assessment aims at ______.
(a) enabling learners to master the language in terms of accuracy.
(b) enabling learners to perform language in social and professional situations.
(c) enabling learners to secure high scores in high stake examinations.
(d) enabling learners to use language through memorization.
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Answer: (b) enabling learners to perform language in social and professional situations.

Explanation:
1. Competency-based assessment checks what learners can do with language.
2. It looks at performance in real social and professional situations.

Teacher's Note:
1. It is linked to NEP 2020's move from rote learning to competencies.
2. Scores and memorisation are not its aim.

Question 10: Which one of the following is NOT a poetic device?
(a) Simile
(b) Image
(c) Metaphor
(d) Appreciation
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Answer: (d) Appreciation

Explanation:
1. Simile, image (imagery) and metaphor are devices used by poets.
2. Appreciation is a response to a poem, not a device.

Teacher's Note:
1. Devices include alliteration, personification, rhyme and imagery.
2. Appreciation is what the reader does.

Question 11: What is the place accorded to Hindi in the Indian Constitution?
(a) Language of judiciary
(b) National language
(c) Official language
(d) Language of education
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Answer: (c) Official language

Explanation:
1. Article 343 makes Hindi in Devanagari script the official language of the Union.
2. India has no constitutionally declared national language.

Teacher's Note:
1. Hindi and English are the Union's official languages.
2. Do not call Hindi the national language.

Question 12: 'Form oriented language inputs' for language learning are ______
(a) making meaning of the inputs
(b) focusing on the information in inputs
(c) purpose of the input for learning writing
(d) pronunciation, use of vocabulary and grammar.
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Answer: (d) pronunciation, use of vocabulary and grammar.

Explanation:
1. Form-focused inputs draw attention to the form of language.
2. Form means pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.

Teacher's Note:
1. Meaning-oriented inputs focus on information and ideas.
2. Form-oriented inputs focus on accuracy.

Question 13: All formative assessment is ______
(a) assessment of learning
(b) assessment while learning
(c) assessment as learning
(d) assessment for learning
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Answer: (d) assessment for learning

Explanation:
1. Formative assessment gives feedback during learning to improve teaching and learning.
2. This is called assessment for learning.

Teacher's Note:
1. Summative assessment is assessment of learning.
2. Formative = for learning.

Question 14: A formative evaluation of student writing ______
(a) requires thorough markings of mechanical errors with a pencil or pen.
(b) involves making comments on the appropriateness of the student's interpretation of the prompt and the degree to which the objective was met.
(c) should require that the students hand in all the materials produced during the process of writing.
(d) involves several careful readings of the text for content, mechanics, spelling, and usage.
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Answer: (b) involves making comments on the appropriateness of the student's interpretation of the prompt and the degree to which the objective was met.

Explanation:
1. Formative evaluation gives feedback on how well the task and objective were met.
2. Marking every error or demanding every draft is not its aim.

Teacher's Note:
1. Formative feedback should guide improvement.
2. Over-correction discourages learners.

Question 15: Forbidding a child to use their home language at school is detrimental to their learning because
(a) using home language negatively affects learning.
(b) it is a violation of their right.
(c) it is illegal to prohibit the use of home language in school.
(d) it may make students feel marginalized and lost in the class.
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Answer: (d) it may make students feel marginalized and lost in the class.

Explanation:
1. The home language is the child's base for learning.
2. Banning it makes the child feel excluded and lost, which harms learning.

Teacher's Note:
1. NCF and NEP stress the home language as a resource.
2. Learning is affected through the child's sense of belonging.

Question 16: At what stages of schooling does the National Education Policy 2020 recommend the study of classical and foreign languages?
(a) Foundational stage
(b) Middle stage
(c) Foundational and secondary stage
(d) Middle and secondary stages
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Answer: (d) Middle and secondary stages

Explanation:
1. NEP 2020 offers classical languages as options at middle and secondary levels.
2. Foreign languages are offered at the secondary level.

Teacher's Note:
1. Treat this as a recall item on NEP's language chapter.
2. Mother tongue is stressed at the foundational stage.

Question 17: Which of the following is NOT true of multilingual education in schools?
(a) All learners learn mother tongue/home language, state language, Hindi, English and other languages.
(b) All children learn through the medium of English during their secondary stage of schooling.
(c) School systems and states should make provision for learning of languages of learners in school.
(d) All children in school begin their schooling in their mother tongue and move on to add many (at least) more languages.
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Answer: (b) All children learn through the medium of English during their secondary stage of schooling.

Explanation:
1. Multilingual education starts in the mother tongue and adds languages.
2. It does not make English the compulsory medium for all, so (b) is not true.

Teacher's Note:
1. NEP prefers home language or mother tongue as medium at least up to class 5.
2. Multilingual education is additive.

Question 18: A teacher of class VII in her grammar class takes the grammatical items voice and tense. She provides texts from their textbook reading in which the grammar item appears and gives a lot of practice to notice the item in natural discourse and to internalize it. At the end she draws their attention to the rules of voice and tense. What approach to grammar teaching does she adopt in her class?
(a) Declarative grammar
(b) Rule based grammar
(c) Communicative grammar
(d) Procedural grammar
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Answer: (d) Procedural grammar

Explanation:
1. Learners first use and notice grammar in context and only then are rules stated.
2. This builds the ability to use grammar, i.e. procedural grammar.

Teacher's Note:
1. Declarative grammar means knowing rules; procedural means using them.
2. This is an inductive path: use first, rules later.

Question 19: Which of the following is NOT an authentic text for language learning?
(a) A tourist brochure for a hill station in India
(b) A translated poem from another Indian language
(c) A poem written by the teacher for her classroom
(d) An extract from an epic written in the 19th century
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Answer: (c) A poem written by the teacher for her classroom

Explanation:
1. Authentic texts are produced for real purposes, not for teaching.
2. A poem written by the teacher specially for her class is not authentic.

Teacher's Note:
1. Brochures, news and published literature are authentic.
2. Texts made for teaching are not.

Question 20: What is 'Bhasha Sangam'?
(a) Government of India's flagship programme for promotion of Indian languages in school
(b) Government of India's flagship programme for promotion of foreign languages in school
(c) Government of India's flagship programme for promotion of Indian culture in school
(d) Government of India's flagship programme for promotion of classical languages in school
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Answer: (a) Government of India's flagship programme for promotion of Indian languages in school

Explanation:
1. Bhasha Sangam, under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat, introduces students to Indian languages.
2. Students learn simple sentences in 22 scheduled languages.

Teacher's Note:
1. It was launched by the Ministry of Education.
2. It promotes multilingualism.

Question 21: A teacher of class VIII divides her class into groups of four and assigns reading tasks which involve reading, consulting a dictionary, summarizing, note making and so on. What are these skills known as?
(a) Study skills
(b) Study habits
(c) Group study work
(d) Reading to writing
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Answer: (a) Study skills

Explanation:
1. Using a dictionary, taking notes and summarising are skills that help learners study.
2. These are study skills.

Teacher's Note:
1. Study skills include skimming, note making and referencing.
2. Habits are routines, skills are abilities.

Question 22: What typology of question does the following question come under? 'Why do you think the narrator walked out of her home?'
(a) Informative questions
(b) Inferential question
(c) Extrapolative question
(d) Emotive question
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Answer: (b) Inferential question

Explanation:
1. The answer is not stated directly in the text.
2. The reader has to infer it, so it is an inferential question.

Teacher's Note:
1. Informative questions are answered directly from the text.
2. Extrapolative questions go beyond the text.

Question 23: Children from tribal and minor language backgrounds enter school with their mother tongue. They are made to study in a language medium which is not their mother tongue or familiar. This leads to ______.
(a) subtractive bilingualism
(b) additive bilingualism
(c) mother tongue-based multilingualism
(d) language loss
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Answer: (a) subtractive bilingualism

Explanation:
1. When a new dominant language replaces the home language, the home language is weakened.
2. This is subtractive bilingualism.

Teacher's Note:
1. Additive bilingualism adds a language without losing the first.
2. Subtractive bilingualism leads to loss of the mother tongue.

Question 24: Which of the following would you suggest as ideal for teaching of vocabulary?
(a) Giving the meaning of words in isolation.
(b) Translating the meaning of words into Indian languages.
(c) Creating word webs and collocations of words thematically.
(a) (a), (b) and (c) are correct
(b) (b) is correct
(c) (c) is correct
(d) (a) is correct
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Answer: (c) (c) is correct

Explanation:
1. Words are best learnt in context and in related groups.
2. Word webs and collocations by theme do this; isolated meanings and plain translation do not.

Teacher's Note:
1. Vocabulary is learnt through networks of association.
2. Isolated word lists are quickly forgotten.

Question 25: A learner of class VI is unable to read a longer text. She reads the sounds of letters and adds them to make a word. Which of the following would you suggest to her to improve her reading?
(a) To read the spelling first and then the sounds.
(b) To read the whole word as a word, not as individual letters.
(c) To have more practice in the same manner.
(d) To listen to someone reading out and then read on her own.
(a) (a) and (c)
(b) (b) and (d)
(c) (a), (b) and (c)
(d) (d) and (a)
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Answer: (b) (b) and (d)

Explanation:
1. She is stuck at letter-by-letter decoding.
2. Reading whole words (b) and hearing fluent reading before reading herself (d) help her move to fluent reading.

Teacher's Note:
1. Fluency comes from recognising words as wholes.
2. More of the same practice would not change the problem.

Question 26: A teacher of class VI gives the following tasks to her students. Which of these tasks is authentic?
(a) Recite a poem on a rainy day from the textbook.
(b) Write a letter to the Municipal Commissioner complaining about water logging during the monsoon season.
(a) (a) and (b) are authentic tasks.
(b) (b) is an authentic task.
(c) (a) is an authentic task.
(d) Both (a) and (b) are not authentic tasks.
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Answer: (b) (b) is an authentic task.

Explanation:
1. An authentic task has a real purpose and audience.
2. A complaint letter to an official does; reciting a textbook poem does not.

Teacher's Note:
1. Authentic tasks resemble real-life use of language.
2. Recitation is a classroom exercise.

Question 27: Assertion (A): The functional model of language is linked with the concept of communicative competence.
Reason (R): Language is a vehicle for the expression of functional meaning and for performing real-world activities.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false but R is true.
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Answer: (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

Explanation:
1. The functional view sees language as a means of doing things, hence communicative competence.
2. R states this view, so it explains A.

Teacher's Note:
1. Hymes introduced communicative competence.
2. Functions such as requesting and apologising are central.

Question 28: While designing the activities for a language classroom, a teacher should consider to ______
A. design activities which involve meaningful interaction
B. design activities which resemble real-world tasks.
(a) A is right
(b) B is right.
(c) Both A and B are right.
(d) Both A and B are wrong.
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Answer: (c) Both A and B are right.

Explanation:
1. Communicative activities should involve meaningful interaction.
2. They should also resemble real-world tasks, so both are right.

Teacher's Note:
1. These are principles of communicative language teaching.
2. Tasks should have a purpose and a context.

Question 29: A teacher gives her learners two riddles and asks them to solve the riddles in pairs. One has to solve a puzzle by speaking out whatever one thinks. The other has to solve the other riddle in the same manner. What is this activity known as?
(a) Speaking and listening
(b) Pair work
(c) Language use
(d) Think aloud protocol
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Answer: (d) Think aloud protocol

Explanation:
1. Learners voice their thinking while solving a problem.
2. This is the think aloud protocol.

Teacher's Note:
1. Think-aloud makes thinking visible.
2. It is useful to study comprehension and problem solving.

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