421. The concept of Private Speech’ is introduced by
(a) Piaget (b) Bruner
( c) Vygotsky ( d) Morgan
Answer: (c)
422. The expansion of ZPD is
(a) Zone of Potential Development
(b) Zone of Possible Development
(c) Zone of Prozimal Development
(d) Zone of Productive Development
Answer: (c)
423. Grammar should be taught by
(a) enabling practice in context
(b) asking students to learn rules
(c) making learners do written assignments
(d) giving clear explanations
Answer: (a)
424. The semantic approaches to the learning of languages are the result of the work of psychological belonging to the school of
(a) behaviourism (b ) psychoanalysis
( c) cognitivism (d) humanism
Answer: (c)
425. Narration of a story in the IVth standard intended for developing the skill of
(a) reading (b) listening
(c) writing (d) none of these
Answer: (b)
426. The Right of children to free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 stipulates that learning should be
(a) supported by extra coaching
(b) restricted to co-scholastic subjects
(c) carefully monitored by frequent testing
(d) through activities in a child-friendly manner
Answer: (d)
427. Linguistic communicative approach develops
(a) speaking skill (b) reading skill
( c) writing skill (d) listening skill
Answer: (a)
428. In translation cum grammar method, English is taught with the help of
(a) mother language
(b) foreign language
( c) internet
(d) none of the above
Answer: (a)
429. Language learning starts from
(a) listening (b) speaking
(c) reading (d)writing
Answer: (a)
430. The spoken skills in a language teaching classroom can be developed through
(a) group activities where learners can talk in whichever language they would like to
(b) engaging in small talk as confident aggressive learners
( c) emotionally connecting with learners
(d) enabling activities with a focus on conversations skills leading to communicative competence
Answer: (d)
431. Poetry teaching has the objectives
(a) develop aesthetic
(b) appreciate thoughts
( c) train the emotions
(d) all the above
Answer: (d)
432. Principles of language different forms of rules fit for any language etc are defined by Chomsky as
(a) language and thought
(b )sensory motor stage
( c) language acquisition device
( d) zone of proximal development
Answer: (c)
433. Which of the following is an appropriate order for learning of a language
(a) listening – speaking- writing – reading
(b) speaking – listening – writing – reading
(c) listening- speaking- reading – writing
(d) listening- reading- speaking – writing
Answer: (c)
434. Who is the father of modern linguistics
(a) Gleason (b) Chaucer
(c) Noam Chomsky ( d) Ferdinand De Saussure
Answer: (d)
435. Which of the following combination is found in the structure of English language?
(a) subject – verb – object
(b )subject – object – verb
( c) verb – object – subject
( d) object – verb – subject
Answer: (a)
436. Which Indian reformist supported English Education
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (b) Gandhiji
(c) Nehru ( d) Swami Vivekananda
Answer: (a)
437. Repetition is the of learning
(a) hallmark (b) essence
(c) mother (d) child
Answer: (c)
438. What is the most important function of classroom tests from the teacher’s point of view?
(a) to grade the pupils in rank order
(b) to improve the pupil’s achievement through remedial measure
( c) to assess the quantitative terms the pupils attainment
(d) to provide learners challenging tasks requiring them to put in their best
Answer: (b)
439. The teacher’s role in the English classroom in the new approach consists mainly of
(a) providing appropriate situations to facilitate the learner acquire the language naturally
(b) presenting the learner with faultless models of spoken and written English
(c) exercising sufficient control over the class so that a learning atmosphere is maintained
(d) drilling new language material terms of structures and vocabulary
Answer: (a)
440. At the primary stage, assessment should consist of
(a) home assignments and class assignments every week to rate young learners under the categories of pass or fail
(b) continuous and unstructured teacher observations to be shared with learners and parents
(c) formal tests and games done every week and recorded in the report card
(d) half-yearly and annual examinations at the end of the year
Answer: (b)
441. ‘Origin of species’ is a great work authored by
(a) Gallon (b) Newton
(c) Charles Darwin ( d) C. V. Raman
Answer: (c)
442. As a teacher you want to teach about various types of animals. What will you prefer most to do among the following?
(a) you tell about different types of animals
(b) encouraging them to share their experience about animals
( c) you sing a song about animals
( d) none of the above
Answer: (b)
443. At the primary stage the child should be engaged in
(a) learning sample principles of science through families experience
(b) working with hands to design simple technological units and modules
( c) continuing to learn more on the environment through activities and surveys
( d) all of the above
Answer: (d)
444. Unobserved 2010 as the year of
(a) international environmental year
(b) bio-diversity year
(c) housing year
( d) earth year
Answer: (b)
445. The main aspects of environment education is the
(a) environmental awareness
(b) heredity awareness
( c) both the above
( d) none of these
Answer: (c)
446. Which of the following method of teaching science is not included in integrated approach of teaching science?
(a) scientific method (b) discovery
( c) activity based ( d) lecture demonstration
Answer: (d)
447. According to NCF-2005, scientific concepts are to be arrived at mainly from
(a) activities (b) experiments
(c) activities and experiments ( d) none of the above
Answer: (c)
448. The use of poems and story telling to explaining concepts in an EVS class helps to
(a) channelize the energies of the students in the right direction
(b) make the lesson enjoyable and interesting
( c) promote the ability to imagine and explore the nature of the world at the local and global level
(d) take care of the language and cultural diversity among learners
Answer: (c)
449. World Environment day is observed on
(a) July 5 (b) June 5
( c) October 10 (d) December 10
Answer: (b)
450. The chapters in the NCERT text book of mathematics of class IV have titles like The junk seller, Trip to Bhopal”, ‘The way the world looks’ ‘lb is shift has been done to .
(a) challenge the students to guess the mathematical content in the chapters
(b) make them understand differently
(c) make it interesting by relating it to everyday life
(d) know about selling junk and travelling
Answer: (c)