CTET January 2021 – Paper II (English Langauge II) Answer Key

Direction: Answer the following questions by selecting the most appropriate options.
Q136. What does ‘free-writing approach to writing promote?
(1) Understanding of the content and fluency
(2) Syntax and language use
(3) Understanding of form and accuracy
(4) Grammatical accuracy

Q137. Pedagogical Grammar’ means that
(1)Begin from form and move on to use.
(2) Teaching through immersion
(3) All grammar teaching should be rule focussed.
(4) Teaching grammar in context

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Answer – 4

Q138. Which one of the following is not advocated as an element for assessment in a poem ?
(1) Grammar
(2) Vocabulary
(3) Poetic devices
(4) Theme of the poem

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Answer – 4

Q139. A teacher asked her learners to watch a movie two days ago and now she asks them to have a discussion on what would they do if they were the hero/heroine of the movie? What is this assessment task known as?
(1) Speaking task
(2) Thinking task
(3) Extrapolative task
(4) Critical pedagogy

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Answer – 3

Q140. What does fluency in a reading mean?
(1) Ability to interpret the text.
(2) Ability to read without any grammatical errors.
(3) Ability to read a text at ease with expression.
(4) Ability to read a text without any mistake at all

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Answer – 4

Q141. Which of the following statements are true of languages in India?
a. English is the official language of India.
b. Hindi is the national language of India.
c. Hindi is the official language of India.
d. English is the associate official language of India.
(1) ‘a’ and ‘d’ are true.
(2) ‘b’ and ‘c’ are true.
(3) ‘a’ and ‘b’ are true.
(4) ‘c’ and ‘d’ are true.

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Answer – 4

Q142. ‘Declarative Knowledge in learning grammar refers to
(1) knowing the ideas and concepts in learning.
(2) knowing to use a dictionary
(3) knowing the rules of a grammatical item.
(4) knowing how to do a grammatical item.

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Answer – 3

Q143. ‘Habit formation through repetition is a component of which method ?
(1) Task based language teaching
(2) Constructivism
(3) Communicative approach
(4) Audio lingualism

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Answer – 4

Q144. A teacher of class VII asks her learners to bring at least two or three objects from home and she asks them to exchange the objects among themselves. She now asks them to describe the objects in their hands in at least ten sentences. What are the objects known as in language teaching-learning materials?
(1) Teachers materials
(2) Inputs for language learning
(3) Realia
(4) Home objects

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Answer – 3

Q145. Which one of the following components is a process in the Top-Down approach to teaching-learning of listening?
(1) Recognising prominent details
(2) Recognising the topic
(3) Discriminating between intonation compounds
(4) Discriminating between phonemes

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Answer – 1

Q146. A teacher arranges her learners into pairs and gives them a text of two paragraphs. One learner in the pair reads out the text to the other and the partner takes the dictation. Then the process is reversed. What is this known as?
(1) Running dictation
(2) Composition dictation
(3) Jig-saw dictation
(4) Partial dictation

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Answer – 3

Q147. Mechanics of language in speaki skills includes
(1) social and cultural rules of using language
(2) script, words and sentences
(3) pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary
(4) clarity of message

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Answer – 3

Q148. Jatin Ragav is reading fast, looking for specific information in a machinery manual. What is this reading sub skill known as ?
(1) Bottom up reading
(2) Critical reading
(3) Skimming
(4) Scanning

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Answer – 4

Q149. Here are some sets of words in some pattern. Find what are these known as in teaching-learning of pronunciation ? bit-bet, did-dead, hid-head, lid-lead, miss-mess, pin-pen, lock-luck
(1) Vowels
(2) Stress and intonation
(3) Contrastive pairs
(4) Comparable paire

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Answer – 3

Q150. Words which one recognizes when one hears or sees them are –
(1) Explicit vocabulary
(2) Implicit vocabulary
(3) Productive vocabulary
(4) Receptive vocabulary

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Answer – 4