CTET English Flashcards

Which approach to teaching reading emphasizes understanding the overall meaning of a text before focusing on individual words or grammar?

Answer: Top-down approach

The top-down approach prioritizes comprehension of overall meaning using prior knowledge before analyzing individual linguistic elements.

In Bloom's Taxonomy, which cognitive level requires a student to break down information into its component parts and examine relationships?

Answer: Analysis

Analysis involves breaking material into constituent parts and detecting how they relate to one another and to an overall structure.

A teacher asks students to rewrite a paragraph using reported speech. This activity primarily develops which language skill?

Answer: Writing

Rewriting a paragraph requires active production of written language, making it primarily a writing skill activity.

Which of the following is an example of a 'schema' in the context of reading comprehension?

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.

The CTET syllabus for English includes 'Language Acquisition.' Which theorist is most associated with the concept of a 'Language Acquisition Device' (LAD)?

Answer: Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky proposed that humans are born with an innate Language Acquisition Device that facilitates the natural learning of language.

When a teacher uses 'drilling' in a language classroom, what is the primary pedagogical goal?

Answer: Automating specific language patterns through repetition

Drilling is a behaviorist technique that uses repetition to help learners automatize pronunciation or grammatical patterns.

Which literary device is used in the phrase: 'The classroom was a zoo'?

Answer: Metaphor

This is a metaphor because the classroom is directly stated to be a zoo without using 'like' or 'as'.