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Question 1: Rahim listens to the 9 o'clock news every day and shares some of the news with his friends. What is this listening known as?
(a) Intensive listening
(b) Extensive listening
(c) Bottom-up model
(d) Listening for information
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Answer: (b) Extensive listening

Explanation:
1. Regular listening for general understanding and pleasure over a long time is extensive listening.
2. Intensive listening is detailed, close listening.

Teacher's Note:
1. Extensive listening builds fluency and exposure.
2. Intensive listening focuses on small details.

Question 2: Which of the following is NOT an authentic language testing task?
(a) Write the autobiography of a tree.
(b) Imagine you are the tree which stands in front of your house and tell your story.
(c) Describe the scene in the picture in your own words.
(d) On your way to school you witnessed a quarrel between two men. Describe the event.
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Answer: (a) Write the autobiography of a tree.

Explanation:
1. Authentic tasks reflect situations that learners can relate to.
2. Writing a tree's autobiography has no real-life purpose, so (a) is not authentic.

Teacher's Note:
1. Doubtful item: option (b) is also imaginative, source key retained.
2. Authentic tasks have a purpose and a link to real life.

Question 3: Scanning is a reading activity which helps learners to ______.
(a) draw out the desired information
(b) enrich their vocabulary
(c) develop competence in linguistic items
(d) know the meaning of words
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Answer: (a) draw out the desired information

Explanation:
1. In scanning the reader looks quickly for specific information.
2. So it helps to draw out the desired information.

Teacher's Note:
1. Scanning: specific details such as dates or names.
2. Skimming: gist.

Question 4: If a teacher is to rate each part of the student's product or process then which type of tool will be effective?
(a) Checklist
(b) Holistic rubric
(c) Analytical rubric
(d) Schedule
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Answer: (c) Analytical rubric

Explanation:
1. Analytical rubrics score each criterion separately.
2. A holistic rubric gives one overall score.

Teacher's Note:
1. Analytical rubrics give detailed feedback.
2. Holistic ones are quicker to use.

Question 5: Linguistic dominance of English also brings with it
(a) unequal allocation of power and resources.
(b) equal allocation of power and resources.
(c) lower standards in other subjects.
(d) progressive multilingual approaches.
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Answer: (a) unequal allocation of power and resources.

Explanation:
1. When one language dominates, those who know it gain more opportunities.
2. This leads to unequal power and resources.

Teacher's Note:
1. Language and power are linked.
2. Dominance of English can marginalise other languages.

Question 6: Which learning theory constitutes a learner-based approach to characterizing the ways in which learners are unique and develops instructional practices based on this uniqueness?
(a) Plural Intelligences theory
(b) Communicative Language Teaching
(c) Multiple Intelligences theory
(d) Task-based Language Learning
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Answer: (c) Multiple Intelligences theory

Explanation:
1. Gardner's Multiple Intelligences theory says learners differ in their intelligences.
2. Instruction can be planned to suit these differences.

Teacher's Note:
1. Gardner proposed eight intelligences.
2. There is no theory called plural intelligences.

Question 7: In primary level classes, the students should be taught in their mother tongue because
(a) it will enable students to comprehend better.
(b) it will create a formal environment for the students.
(c) teacher will develop self-confidence.
(d) it will promote the regional language of the student.
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Answer: (a) it will enable students to comprehend better.

Explanation:
1. Children understand best in their familiar language.
2. So the mother tongue helps comprehension.

Teacher's Note:
1. NEP 2020 favours the mother tongue as medium in the early years.
2. The main reason is understanding, not promotion of a language.

Question 8: ______ is based on the way children learn languages.
(a) Grammar Translation
(b) Communicative Language Teaching
(c) Structural approach
(d) Role playing methods
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Answer: (b) Communicative Language Teaching

Explanation:
1. Children learn language by using it in meaningful communication.
2. CLT is based on this.

Teacher's Note:
1. Children do not learn through grammar rules or translation.
2. CLT stresses use of language for communication.

Question 9: ______ is an important early reading skill in all students.
(a) Phonological awareness
(b) Morphological awareness
(c) Graphological awareness
(d) Grammar awareness
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Answer: (a) Phonological awareness

Explanation:
1. Phonological awareness is the ability to hear and work with sounds in words.
2. It supports decoding in early reading.

Teacher's Note:
1. It predicts later reading success.
2. Rhyming and syllable play build it.

Question 10: Before beginning a language lesson Nidhi discusses the meanings and contexts of the new words that the students would encounter in the text. What is Nidhi doing?
(a) She is creating a scaffold so that her students understand the lesson better.
(b) She is creating fear in students so that they understand the seriousness of the topic for exams.
(c) She is creating a sense of ease so that students know this is not an important aspect.
(d) She is creating a belief so that students feel that only word meanings are important in the lesson.
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Answer: (a) She is creating a scaffold so that her students understand the lesson better.

Explanation:
1. She provides support before reading so that the text is accessible.
2. Temporary support of this kind is scaffolding.

Teacher's Note:
1. Pre-reading vocabulary work is a scaffold.
2. Scaffolding is Vygotsky's idea of support within the ZPD.

Question 11: ______ refers to theories about the nature of language and language learning that serve as a source of practice.
(a) Approach
(b) Method
(c) Instruction
(d) Technique
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Answer: (a) Approach

Explanation:
1. Approach is the set of theories about language and learning.
2. Method and technique are the practical procedures that follow.

Teacher's Note:
1. Anthony's order: approach, method, technique.
2. Approach is theory, technique is classroom action.

Question 12: In the Direct method, teachers are:
(a) allowed to use some elements of the native language
(b) not allowed to use any native language at all
(c) allowed to explain using native language
(d) not allowed to give grammar exercises.
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Answer: (b) not allowed to use any native language at all

Explanation:
1. The Direct method uses only the target language in class.
2. Translation and the native language are avoided.

Teacher's Note:
1. Meaning is shown through objects, actions and pictures.
2. Grammar is taught inductively.

Question 13: During World War II, ______ method was used by the American soldiers to train their soldiers in foreign languages.
(a) Communicative
(b) Audio-lingual
(c) Structural
(d) Direct
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Answer: (b) Audio-lingual

Explanation:
1. The Army Specialized Training Program used intensive oral drills.
2. This developed into the audio-lingual method.

Teacher's Note:
1. It is also called the Army Method.
2. It relied on repetition and habit formation.

Question 14: Emergent literacy deals with:
(a) Reading and Writing in the early years of a student.
(b) Reading and Writing in the middle school
(c) Reading and Writing in Senior School
(d) Reading and Writing in College
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Answer: (a) Reading and Writing in the early years of a student.

Explanation:
1. Emergent literacy covers the early reading and writing behaviours of young children.
2. It is before formal schooling.

Teacher's Note:
1. It includes scribbling and pretend reading.
2. A print-rich environment helps.

Question 15: In a classroom, a teacher provides the students a text and asks them to make predictions on the basis of pictures, headings and quotes of the text, then read the text to check these predictions, then she instructs them to raise questions if they have any doubt and after that clarifies those questions. In the end, the teacher allows them to summarize whatever they have understood. Hence the teacher is applying ______.
(a) Intensive Teaching
(b) Extensive Teaching
(c) Reciprocal Teaching
(d) Oriented Teaching
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Answer: (c) Reciprocal Teaching

Explanation:
1. Predicting, questioning, clarifying and summarising are the four strategies of reciprocal teaching.
2. So the teacher is applying reciprocal teaching.

Teacher's Note:
1. Reciprocal teaching was developed by Palincsar and Brown.
2. Learners take turns leading.

Question 16: In a language classroom, the teacher is distributing some pictures to the students and asking them to describe the pictures in pairs. Here, the whole scenario gives the impression of ______.
(a) Skinner's theory
(b) Chomsky's theory
(c) Krashen's theory
(d) Ausubel's theory
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Answer: (c) Krashen's theory

Explanation:
1. Pictures give comprehensible input and low-anxiety interaction.
2. This matches Krashen's input and affective filter ideas.

Teacher's Note:
1. Skinner: behaviourism; Chomsky: innate language faculty.
2. Krashen: comprehensible input.

Question 17: A culturally responsive teacher should NOT focus on:
(a) collaborative learning.
(b) active engagement of learners.
(c) providing instruction as per students' learning styles.
(d) developing a sense of individualism.
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Answer: (d) developing a sense of individualism.

Explanation:
1. Culturally responsive teaching values collaboration, engagement and learner differences.
2. It emphasises community, not individualism.

Teacher's Note:
1. Culture is treated as an asset in learning.
2. Collaboration matches many learners' cultural norms.

Question 18: Consider the statements about cooperative language learning groups as described by Johnson et al. (1994):
(A) Informal cooperative language learning groups are established for a specific task and these groups last from one class period to several weeks.
(B) Formal groups last for a few minutes to a class period and aim to facilitate learning during direct teaching.
(a) (A) is true but (B) is false.
(b) (A) is false but (B) is true.
(c) (A) and (B) both are true.
(d) (A) and (B) both are false.
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Answer: (d) (A) and (B) both are false.

Explanation:
1. The descriptions are swapped.
2. Formal groups last from one period to several weeks, and informal groups last a few minutes to one period during direct teaching.

Teacher's Note:
1. Johnson et al. describe formal, informal and base groups.
2. Check whether the labels match the durations.

Question 19: Which of the following is NOT true of a language?
(a) Language is a system of systems.
(b) Language is arbitrary.
(c) Language is a logical system.
(d) Language is meaning focused.
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Answer: (c) Language is a logical system.

Explanation:
1. Language is a system of systems, is arbitrary and is focused on meaning.
2. It is not strictly logical, as it has many irregularities and exceptions.

Teacher's Note:
1. The link between word and meaning is arbitrary.
2. English spelling shows its illogical side.

Question 20: Knowledge about the form, describing it and applying it in limited practice is known as ______.
(a) Procedural knowledge of grammar
(b) Grammar in context
(c) Declarative knowledge of grammar
(d) Practical knowledge of grammar
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Answer: (c) Declarative knowledge of grammar

Explanation:
1. Knowing and stating the rules is declarative knowledge.
2. Procedural knowledge is using grammar fluently.

Teacher's Note:
1. Declarative means knowing that; procedural means knowing how.
2. Rules alone do not guarantee use.

Question 21: A reader reads a magazine and is looking for the overall idea of the cover story. What is this reading known as?
(a) Scanning
(b) Skimming
(c) Reading for pleasure
(d) Intensive reading
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Answer: (b) Skimming

Explanation:
1. Reading quickly to get the overall idea is skimming.
2. Scanning looks for specific details.

Teacher's Note:
1. Skimming: gist; scanning: specific information.
2. Both are rapid reading skills.

Question 22: A teacher of class VIII asks her learners to listen to the five sentences she reads out and write down the exact sentences. Which strategy of listening does she attempt to promote?
(a) Top down strategy
(b) Dictation as a strategy
(c) Apt listening strategy
(d) Bottom up strategy
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Answer: (d) Bottom up strategy

Explanation:
1. Writing the exact words needs close attention to sounds and words.
2. That is a bottom-up listening strategy.

Teacher's Note:
1. Dictation develops bottom-up decoding.
2. Top-down uses context and prior knowledge.

Question 23: Portfolio assessment aims at ______
(a) collection of instances of learning by learners over a period of time as evidences.
(b) collection of the marks or grades by learners over a period of time as evidences.
(c) conducting written and oral tests in order to judge learners' language learning.
(d) creating a profile of each learner through a progress report card.
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Answer: (a) collection of instances of learning by learners over a period of time as evidences.

Explanation:
1. A portfolio collects samples of a learner's work over time.
2. These samples serve as evidence of learning and progress.

Teacher's Note:
1. Portfolios show growth over time.
2. They are not a collection of marks.

Question 24: Drilling as a strategy for internalizing the pattern is advocated by ______.
(a) Communicative Language Teaching
(b) Audiolingualism
(c) Total Physical Response
(d) Constructivist language teaching
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Answer: (b) Audiolingualism

Explanation:
1. Audiolingualism is based on behaviourism and habit formation.
2. Drilling is its main technique.

Teacher's Note:
1. Repeat, substitute and transform are drill types.
2. CLT avoids mechanical drilling.

Question 25: A teacher organizes the following activity every day. She divides the class into groups of five and gives some day-to-day functions/themes for conversation in the groups and later picks one from each group and asks the group to converse as a whole class activity. What is she attempting to promote?
(a) Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills (BICS)
(b) Cognitively Advanced Language Proficiency (CALP)
(c) Discourse competency
(d) Group Discussion
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Answer: (a) Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills (BICS)

Explanation:
1. Everyday conversation on day-to-day themes builds BICS.
2. CALP is academic language.

Teacher's Note:
1. BICS and CALP are Cummins' terms.
2. BICS develops in a year or two, CALP takes longer.

Question 26: Procedural knowledge helps learners ______.
(a) learn the knowledge about language
(b) learn the form first and use it later.
(c) apply the rules of grammar in communication
(d) master the rules of grammar of a language.
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Answer: (c) apply the rules of grammar in communication

Explanation:
1. Procedural knowledge is knowing how to use language.
2. It helps learners apply grammar in communication.

Teacher's Note:
1. Declarative knowledge is knowing about language.
2. Practice in use builds procedural knowledge.

Question 27: India's language in education policy is known as
(a) Multilingual education
(b) Three-language formula
(c) Mother tongue medium education
(d) Regional language education
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Answer: (b) Three-language formula

Explanation:
1. India's policy asks for study of three languages in schools.
2. It is called the three-language formula.

Teacher's Note:
1. It was adopted in 1968 and continued in NEP 2020.
2. States have flexibility in choosing languages.

Question 28: A text is divided into two parts. In pairs one learner reads out the text to the other. One reads and her partner takes dictation. Then the process is reversed. What is this activity known as?
(a) Mutual Dictation
(b) Partial Dictation
(c) Running Dictation
(d) Grammar Dictation
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Answer: (a) Mutual Dictation

Explanation:
1. Both partners dictate and write in turn, each from a part of the text.
2. This is mutual (pair) dictation. Partial dictation means filling gaps in a text.

Teacher's Note:
1. Partial dictation gives part of the text and learners fill in the rest.
2. Running dictation involves running to a text and back.

Question 29: Which of the following is true of an ideal language syllabus?
(a) Learning outcomes should aim at more than learning objectives
(b) Learning objectives should aim at more than learning outcomes.
(c) Learning objectives should align with learning outcomes
(d) Learning objectives should be different from learning outcomes.
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Answer: (c) Learning objectives should align with learning outcomes

Explanation:
1. Objectives state what is planned and outcomes state what is achieved.
2. In a good syllabus they should be aligned.

Teacher's Note:
1. Alignment links teaching, learning and assessment.
2. Mismatch makes assessment invalid.

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