CTET CTET English 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which approach to teaching reading emphasizes understanding the overall meaning of a text before focusing on individual words or grammar?
- Phonics approach
- Top-down approach (Correct answer)
- Bottom-up approach
- Decoding approach
Correct answer: Top-down approach
The top-down approach prioritizes comprehension of overall meaning using prior knowledge before analyzing individual linguistic elements.
Question 2: In Bloom's Taxonomy, which cognitive level requires a student to break down information into its component parts and examine relationships?
- Evaluation
- Synthesis
- Analysis (Correct answer)
- Application
Correct answer: Analysis
Analysis involves breaking material into constituent parts and detecting how they relate to one another and to an overall structure.
Question 3: A teacher asks students to rewrite a paragraph using reported speech. This activity primarily develops which language skill?
- Listening
- Speaking
- Reading
- Writing (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Writing
Rewriting a paragraph requires active production of written language, making it primarily a writing skill activity.
Question 4: Which of the following is an example of a 'schema' in the context of reading comprehension?
- A phoneme in a word
- A student's prior knowledge about a topic (Correct answer)
- A grammatical rule for verb tense
- A punctuation convention
Correct answer: A student's prior knowledge about a topic
Schema theory holds that readers use pre-existing mental frameworks (prior knowledge) to interpret and make sense of new text.
Question 5: The CTET syllabus for English includes 'Language Acquisition.' Which theorist is most associated with the concept of a 'Language Acquisition Device' (LAD)?
- B.F. Skinner
- Lev Vygotsky
- Noam Chomsky (Correct answer)
- Stephen Krashen
Correct answer: Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky proposed that humans are born with an innate Language Acquisition Device that facilitates the natural learning of language.
Question 6: When a teacher uses 'drilling' in a language classroom, what is the primary pedagogical goal?
- Fostering creative writing
- Automating specific language patterns through repetition (Correct answer)
- Developing critical reading skills
- Building inferential comprehension
Correct answer: Automating specific language patterns through repetition
Drilling is a behaviorist technique that uses repetition to help learners automatize pronunciation or grammatical patterns.
Question 7: Which literary device is used in the phrase: 'The classroom was a zoo'?
- Simile
- Personification
- Metaphor (Correct answer)
- Hyperbole
Correct answer: Metaphor
This is a metaphor because the classroom is directly stated to be a zoo without using 'like' or 'as'.
CTET CTET English 2
Which approach to teaching reading emphasizes understanding the overall meaning of a text before focusing on individual words or grammar?