Practice Test: English Pedagogy - 2 - CTET & State TET MCQ

Note taking is done during a lecture because It allows you to have a written record of the lecture which may not be in your textbook. It also ensures that you become an active and involved listener and learner.

In English language any sentence can be correctly writes in the following sequence:
Subject ---> verb ---->  object.
Example- I am going to the market.
Here (I) is subject (am going) is verb and (the market) is object.

Critical listening is a form of listening that if usually not mentioned, since it involves analysis, critical thinking and judgment. Making judgments during listening is often considered as a barrier to understand a person, and there's a lot of truth in that. However, critical listening occurs when you still want to understand what the other person is saying, but also has some reason or responsibility to evaluate what is being said to you and how it is being said. For example, if there's an upcoming election and you need to decide who to vote for, you probably use some form of critical listening when you watch a televised debate. You listen, AND you evaluate.

A good listening task is the one that directs the students attention carefully towards the desired output for which it contains specific cues to aid the language learners. Thus, to provide clues and supporting completion of the task are some of the features of a good listening task.

Task-based language teaching (TBLT), also known as task-based instruction (TBI), focuses on the use of authentic language and on asking students to do meaningful tasks using the target language. Such tasks can include visiting a doctor, conducting an interview, or calling customer service for help. A Task in task-based language learning is a piece of work which involves engagement with language.

The task of reading aloud and translating does not lead to meaning-making for a learner. It can be considered only as a task of vocabulary testing and building.

Student-generated corrections are important in language learning because they indicate active engagement in the learning process. The natural approach was strikingly different from the mainstream approach in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s, the audio-lingual method. While the audio-lingual method prized drilling and error correction, these things disappeared almost entirely from the natural approach. Terrell and Krashen themselves characterized the natural approach as a "traditional" method and contrasted it with grammar-based approaches, which they characterized as new inventions that had "misled" teachers.

Collaborative learning is based on the view that knowledge is the social concern These activities are basically based on the following four principles

1. The learner or the student is the primary focus of instruction.
2. Interaction and “doing” are of primary importance.
3. Working in group is an important mode of learning.
4. Structured approaches to developing solutions to real world problems should be incorporated into learning.
5. Peer learning, or peer instruction is a type of collaborative learning that involves students working in pairs or in small groups to discuss concepts and find solutions of the relevant problems.

The major purpose of assessment rubrics is to assess performance. For the assessment of fluency and coherence of language hesitation to find words or use correct grammatical structures can be used as a rubric for fluency to be attained it very important for the speaker to speak the language correctly without any grammatical errors.

Format for an active sentence: Subject + Verb + Object. Format for a passive sentence: Object + Verb + Subject. The passive voice sentence from the given options is: Let it be done. The given active sentence is a command, so its passive voice should also be the same.

A lesson plan is the instructor’s road map of what students need to learn and how it will be done effectively during the class time. Before you plan your lesson, you will first need to identify the learning objectives for the class meeting. Then, you can design appropriate learning activities and develop strategies to obtain feedback on student learning. A successful lesson plan addresses and integrates these three key components: 

• Objectives for student learning
• Teaching/learning activities
• Strategies to check student understanding 

Therefore a teacher should not take the difficulties of individuals into consideration when he/she prepare teaching plans.

The given sentence is in indirect speech, its direct speech will be: My father said, “She has no interest in the field.” While changing from direct to indirect speech, present perfect tense changes into past perfect tense. The structure of the new past perfect tense sentence becomes (subject+had+3^rd form of verb+object).