CTET CTET English 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A teacher reads a story aloud expressively while students follow along. This strategy primarily supports which aspect of language learning?
- Silent independent reading fluency
- Listening comprehension and language modeling (Correct answer)
- Phonics decoding skills
- Grammar rule memorization
Correct answer: Listening comprehension and language modeling
Read-alouds expose students to fluent, expressive oral language and develop listening comprehension while modeling proper pronunciation and phrasing.
Question 2: Which word correctly completes the sentence: 'The committee _____ not yet reached a decision'?
- have
- has (Correct answer)
- are
- were
Correct answer: has
In formal/American English, collective nouns like 'committee' take singular verbs; 'has' is correct here.
Question 3: A student who struggles with reading is asked to read a passage aloud and the teacher takes note of the errors. This process is called:
- Summative evaluation
- Running Record (Correct answer)
- Portfolio assessment
- Peer assessment
Correct answer: Running Record
A Running Record is a systematic observation technique where a teacher records a student's reading behaviors and errors in real time to assess reading level.
Question 4: Which of the following is NOT one of the four language macro-skills?
- Listening
- Thinking (Correct answer)
- Speaking
- Writing
Correct answer: Thinking
The four macro-skills (or language skills) are Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing; Thinking is a cognitive process, not a language macro-skill.
Question 5: Which teaching method uses the mother tongue as the primary medium and focuses on grammar translation between languages?
- Direct Method
- Communicative Language Teaching
- Grammar-Translation Method (Correct answer)
- Audio-Lingual Method
Correct answer: Grammar-Translation Method
The Grammar-Translation Method relies heavily on L1, emphasizes explicit grammar rules, and has students translate texts between the native and target language.
Question 6: In the sentence 'Having finished the exam early, the students were allowed to leave,' the underlined phrase is a:
- Noun clause
- Adjective clause
- Participial phrase (Correct answer)
- Prepositional phrase
Correct answer: Participial phrase
'Having finished the exam early' is a participial phrase (using the perfect participle) that modifies the noun 'students'.
Question 7: Which principle of language assessment ensures that a test actually measures what it claims to measure?
- Reliability
- Practicality
- Validity (Correct answer)
- Authenticity
Correct answer: Validity
Validity is the extent to which an assessment accurately measures the specific language skill or construct it is intended to assess.
CTET CTET English 5
A teacher reads a story aloud expressively while students follow along.
This strategy primarily supports which aspect of language learning?