TET ENGLISH PEDAGOGY

1. “Language is innate to all human beings” is
the belief of....
1) Cognitivists
2) Psycholinguists
3) Behaviourists
4) Experimentalists

2. “English is the gift of goddess saraswathi” is the quotation given by ....
1) Mahatma Gandhi
2) Jawaharlal Nehru
3) Rajaji
4) Prof. Gokak

3. The aim of English Education in pre Independent India was ....
1) Preparing the Indians to help the British Administration
2) To bring about cultural transmission
3) To ensure a co-ordination among different groups of people.
4) To expand trade and commerce links

4. Structural Approach was first introduced in....
1) Madras state
2) Hyderabad state
3) Bengal state
4) Delhi

5. The Word Method in the teaching of Reading was introduced by ....
1) Gray
2) Anderson
3) Comenius
4) Edmund Burke

6. Flower and Hayes regarded the following one of the skills as ‘Problem - Creating and solving skill’
1) Listening
2) Speaking
3) Reading
4) Writing

7. English has .... distinct phonemes
1) 44
2) 42
3) 26
4) 45

8. Chapter-4 of NCFTE-2009 deals with ....
1) Language Education
2) Teacher Education Programmes
3) School Education
4) Curriculum

9. “A language could best be taught” by using it actively in the class room was said by....
1) Asher
2) Dodson
3) Franke
4) Medinger

10. Dr. Wests Method lays stress on.....
1) Listening
2) Speaking
3) Reading
4) Writing

11. Intonation is variation in .....
1) Pitch
2) Sound
3) Organ
4) air

12. Lesson Plan is an example for .....
1) Long term plan
2) Mid term plan
3) Short term plan
4) Half yearly plan

13. “Bad writing is a sign of imperfect
education”- said by .....
1) Mahatma Gandhi
2) Jawaharlal Nehru
3) Radhakrishnan
4) D.S. Kothari

14. Teaching of poetry is meant for .....
1) development of aesthetic sense
2) intensive study of language
3) extensive reading
4) comprehension and composition

15. Find out the function word from the following.
1) and
2) champion
3) handsome
4) seizing

16. S-O-S approach is an alternative to-
1) Bilingual method
2) Audio lingual method
3) Direct method
4) GT Method

17. The repetition of same idea or item of information within the language is called as-
1) creativity
2) reduncy
3) prevarication
4) cultural transmission

18. Banishing mother tongue in the class room is the characteristic feature of ...... method
1) Direct
2) Bilingual
3) GT
4) Reading

19. Writing is the ....... representation of speech sounds
1) alphabetical
2) graphical
3) phonetic
4) systematic

20. A unit of written text or speech which is larger than a sentence is known as .......
1) a discourse
2) a phoneme
3) a phrase
4) an inflection

21. Which one of the following is considered as a great deterrent to learning English?
1) Lack of opportunity for the pupils to listen and use English outside the classroom
2) English is a difficult language to learn
3) English phonemes are unsuzupulous
4) English has a vast vocabulary

22. Example for Authentic Material is .....
1) English Reader
2) Supplementary Reader
3) News paper
4) All the above

23. Diagnostic Tests are administered to .....
1) Find out deficiencies of the students with a view to impart remediation
2) asses the suitability of a candidate for specific programme
3) test the proficiency for some placement
4) judge the students capabilities

24. Find out the correct statement with regard to ‘Evaluation’.
1) Evaluation is a more comprehensive process of measurement
2) Evaluation is both qualitative and quantitative
3) Evaluation is concerned with the measurement of the total teaching - learning process
4) All the above

25. CLT approach emphasises on learning by .....
1) imitation
2) repetition
3) use
4) playing

Answers: 1-2; 2-3; 3-1; 4-1; 5-3; 6-4; 7-1; 8-2;
9-3; 10-3; 11-1; 12-3; 13-1; 14-1; 15-1; 16-3;
17-2; 18-1; 19-2; 20-1; 21-1; 22-3; 23-1; 24-4; 25-3.