21. Questions for Revision


















The  following  are questions  framed by the  trainees of the English Optional [2012-13 batch]  for  revising  the  syllabus prior to the face-to-face interview with the External Examiner  (Practical Examination). It was also part of a techno-based  experiment.  All the  questions were  compiled  for  uploading by Ms. Aneesha Livingston.

Questions  framed by Ms. Hannah Mathew
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Correct answer
1

In which year was NCF published?

2005
2
The degree of disharmony between person and his environment is called _____.
Maladjustment
3
What is the phrase used to describe willingness to explore and study?
‘Tolerance of ambiguity’
4
Who observed: “Teaching is a form of interpersonal influence aimed at changing the behaviour potential of another person”?
Gage
5
‘When students are provided with comfort, they are ready and receptive to learning’, Which approach believes in this concept of learning?
Suggestopaedia
6

What does IED stand for?
Inclusive Education for Differentially abled
7
‘It is a myth that grammatical analysis helps students to acquire better English’. Who remarked so?
L.A.Hill
8
Process of looking into a book for specific information only is  called…
Scanning
9
Grammar Translation Method originated in …… in  the……..  year…..
Germany,
1840’s
10
Who  stated  that  communicative methods are created on the basis of needs?
Wilkins


Questions  framed by Ms. Jincy Joseph
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Question
Correct answer
1
The strategy of presenting a problem in artificially created situations similar to the real ones is ____.
simulation
2
_____is the means of achieving the goals of education.
Curriculum
3
The overall aim of reading silently is to _____.
comprehend the message of the written text
4
____ is important for promoting a collaborative learning atmosphere in class.
Oral interaction
5
A set of two sounds which differ from each other in one sound is _____.
Minimal Pair
6
____is a reading activity done to catch a general idea without attending to details.
Skimming
7
____ is defined as a scaled down teaching encounter in  class size and class time.
Microteaching
8
____is a basic principle in communicative approach.
Contextualization
9
Who proposed Substitution Method?
H.E.Palmer
10
___is an activity designed to promote creativity.
Brainstorming



Questions  framed by Ms. Deepika RP.
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Question
Correct answer
1
Which theory is also known as Environmentalist Theory?
Behaviorism
2
Which type of learning is based on Counseling Learning Methodology?
Community language learning
3
What does PPP mean?
Product, Process, Presentation
4
Cognitive theory is otherwise known as ____
Creative Construction Hypothesis
5
The type of test intended to motivate learners, help them understand what is their problem and how they can improve is  ------------
Diagnostic Test
6
____ includes four things: Selection, Gradation, Presentation and Repetition.
Method
7
____words form the skeleton of language.
Structure words
8
____ is very helpful in drilling structures.
Substitution Table
9
An useful technique to remember while reading is known as _____.
SQ3R
10
 Which  method aims at establishing a bond between thought and expression?
Direct Method



Questions  framed by Ms.  Iswarya JS.
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Question
Correct answer
1

Who developed the Silent Way?

Caleb Gattegno
2
In which year  was Grading System  introduced in schools in  Kerala?
2004
3
What is CBLT?
Community Based Language Teaching
4
What are the three basic types of transfer of learning?
(1)  +ve
(2)  –ve
(3)  Zero transfer
5
What are the two  Productive Skills?
Speaking and Writing
6

We can speak about matters of the remote past or future or place. This property of language is called _____.

Property of Displacement
7
Which level of Linguistics concentrates on the study of language in its various forms at a given time?
Synchronic level
8
The strategy of presenting a problem or an event in artificially created situations similar to the real one is called ____.
Simulation
9
The main advocate of Mastery Learning Model is ____.
Benjamin S. Bloom
10
Who formulated the New method/ the Text method?
Dr. Michael P. West

Questions  framed by Ms. Rajeswari NE.
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Question
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1
Who said, “the foreign word or group of words should be associated with its meaning direct, without the intervention of the native speech”?
Kirkman
2
_____is the pedagogic application of suggestions to create pleasant willingness of the students to study.
Suggestopaedia
3
Who wrote “Language Teaching and the Bilingual method”?
CG. Dodson
4
___type of grammar was developed by Wilkins.
Notional-Functional grammar
5
Who proposed the substitution method?
HE. Palmer
6
Who said, “Rules of grammar are useless without the rules of use”?
Hymes
7
In the UK, Henry Sweet and his associate Linguists adapted ___approach.
British/the oral/situational approach
8
According to whom “induction is the making of the tools of thought and deduction is the using of tools”?
IE. Miller
9
___is the subject matter of a lesson or a unit.
Content
10
In which year  did Krathwohl, Bloom and others list down the major categories of modification of the affective domain?
1964

Questions  framed by Ms.  Nayana Narayanan
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Question
Correct answer
1

Multiple intelligence put forward by ____.

Howard Gardner
2
In 1982, ____recognized two types of Communicative Approach-formal and informal.
Ellis
3
 Who  stated : “In the whole range of education the art of examining in probably the most difficult”?
Dr. Burt
4
The number of words read from one stop to the next is called ___.
Eye span
5
 Who said: “reading is to mind what exercise is to the body?
Joseph & Richard Addison
6

The effect of a test on teaching prior to the administration is_____.
Backwash effect
7
“Learning occurs as a result of conscious study of the formal properties of a language”. Who said this?
Krashen
8
Which method gives the activity imitative  drills to elicit  physical action?
Total Physical Response
9
Note making and Note taking are ______skills.
Study skills
10
‘Suggestopaedia’ put forward by _____.
Georgi Lozanov


Questions  framed by Ms. Fasila J.
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Question
Correct answer
1
Name the proponent of Total Physical Response.
James Asher
2
Give an example of a Spelling Game
Word  Association game
3
Which technique helps the students to study in a relaxed way?
Suggestopaedia
4
Give another name for Structural Approach.
Structural-Oral-Situational Approach
5
Guided Composition is also called____.
Controlled Composition
6

Suggest an activity for developing speaking skill.

Role play
7
Scientific study of language is called _____.
Linguistics
8
Which is the most effective type of reading?
Silent reading
9
What is the full form of CLT?
Communicative Language Teaching
10
Suggest  any one principle for developing curriculum.
The principle of child-centeredness

Questions  framed by Ms.  Silpa Mohan
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Question
Correct answer
1

Full form of IED.

Inclusive Education for Differentially abled
2
Who said “It is a myth that grammatical analysis helps students to acquire better English”.
LA. Hill
3
The aim of the cognitive code teaching is to give a ____knowledge of the language.
conscious
4
Who first claimed that “thinking precedes language learning”?
Piaget
5
What are the needs which influence learning of a  foreign language?
Personal, learning, future professional needs
6
Looking for a specific information is called ____.
Scanning
7
A very specific concrete stratagem or trick designed to accomplish an immediate objective is _____.
Technique
8
Who insisted that  “the foreign word or group of words should be associated with its meaning direct, without the intervention of the native speech”?
Champion H
9
Who proposed Reading Method?
Dr. West

10
“Teaching is a form of interpersonal influence, aimed at changing the behaviour potential of another person”.  This definition of teaching was given by …….
Gage



Questions  framed by Mr.  Vishnu Sreeram
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Question
Correct answer
1

What signifies the systematic study of versification?

Prosody
2
The four component skills of reading are factual comprehension, ideational comprehension, local comprehension and ____.
Global comprehension
3
Teacher asks a series of simple questions that lead the students towards finding the answer. Which type of question is this?
Probing  questions
4
Language is primarily ____.
Communication
5
_____is  a characteristic of good handwriting.
Legibility
6

Which method requires a graded syllabus?

Audio-Lingual method
7
Coloured rods colour-coded pronunciation are the teaching materials used in _____
Silent Way
8
Help given during interviews is called _____.
cue
9
Who proposed the Total Physical Response?
James Asher
10
In which type of  learning do learners acquire the capability of making a common response to different stimulus?
Concept learning

Questions  framed by Ms. Sandhya Surendran
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Question
Correct answer
1

The method  which  focuses on the teaching of structures is called _____.

Structural Approach
2
Which method is also known as Classical Method?
Grammar Translation Method
3
What  did C.J.Dodson  aim to achieve through  the Bilingual Method?
Fluency and accuracy
4
Who recommended controlled and limited use of mother tongue in the second language?
CJ. Dodson
5
“To teach directly is to establish a direct or immediate association between experience and expression between the English word, phrase and idiom and meaning”. Who said so?
Champion H.
6

Which method gives activity drills to elicit physical action?

Total Physical Response
7
 ___ proposed Suggestopaedia.
 Georgi Lozanov
8
Which commission proposed the Three Language Formula?
Kothari commission
9
A three dimensional chart showing the dimensions of a test: content, objective and form of items is ____.
Blue Print
10
Who proposed the Silent Way?
Caleb Gattegno

Questions  framed by Ms. Aswathy SS.
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Question
Correct answer
1
Who developed a catalogue of tactics to promote reflection among teachers?
Kottcamp
2
What type of writing is a part of assessing communicative competence based on the practice book?
functional
3
Which cue is given when a child cannot blend the letters in the word ‘purse’ to make a meaningful word?
Grapho-phonemic cue
4
Which part/title of the Behaviorist Lesson Plan is to know the observable behavioral change?
Specification
5
What  does fluency depend on?
Automaticity
6
Which commission proposed the Three Language Formula?
Kothari commission
7
Who proposed the Silent way?
Cattegno
8
Which method focussed on the slogan “language is speech, not writing”?
Audio lingual Method
9
A three dimensional chart showing the dimensions of a test content, objective and form of items is _____.
Blue Print
10
Subjective type question can also be called ___ended.
Open


Questions  framed by Ms. Lekshmi S.
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Question
Correct answer
1
In the 19th century the concept of play way method was expounded and developed by _______.
Cald Well Cook
2
Cubicles is the ____ booth.
The heaving booth
3
“Under this method, the meaning of English words phrases and sentences are taught by means of word by word translation in the mother tongue” Whose words are this?
Champion. H
4
“Models of Teaching” is written by ______ and _____.
Bruce Joyce and Marsha Weil
5
The first English Dictionary was written by ______.
Robert Cowdrey
6
Sentences are made up of words and words are coined using smaller sound units. What does this property known as?
Duality of Structure
7
According to whom “Grammar as the practical analysis of a language, its anatomy”?
Dr. Sweet
8
Who has proposed Suggestopaedia?
Caleb Gattegno
9
According to whom, second language learning has analogical factors with first language acquisition?
Asher
10
Who has defined “the co-operative deliberation of problems by persons thinking and conversing together in face to face co-acting in group under the direction of the leader”?
Mc Burney and Hance



Questions  framed by Ms. Prasaja VP.
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Question
Correct answer
1
The gap between the present level and the target level of language proficiency and knowledge of the target culture is ______.
Learning gap
2
_____ is highly controlled oral practice in which students respond by continuous repetition to assimilate a linguistic period.
Drill
3
____ is the ability of fluent bilingual individual to alternate between two language or with or between sentences for a specific, stylistic, lexical purpose.
Code switching
4
____ are single words that replace or refer to longer constructions in a sentence.
Pro forms
5
_____ is a systematic collection of students work.
Portfolio
6
_____ is a traditional system of class management in which only one interaction takes place at a time and every interaction is invariably controlled by the teacher.
Lock-step learning
7
_____ is an informal assessment technique which combines oral performance and physical activity.
Role play
8
Name the proponent of Total Physical Response.
James Asher
9
Who has proposed the substitution table?
HE. Palmer
10
Teaching strategy developed for the adults is called____.
Andragogy

Questions  framed by Ms. Lekshmi JB.
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Question
Correct answer
1
Who opines that language is the tool for the execution of thought?
Vygotsky
2
The method that is to be followed in teaching structures is called _____.
Audio-lingual method
3
Which term refers to general concepts such as quantity, cause or time?
Notion
4
Who consolidated the English Structural words and sentences in two volumes?
AS. Hornby
5
The first grammar book for English was that written by_____.
William Lily
6
Who defines grammar as the practical analysis of a language, its anatomy?
Dr. Sweet
7
The word ‘examination’ derived from which Latin word?
Examen
8
Which method is known as the oldest method of teaching English?
Grammar Translation method
9
Who was the originator of the bilingual method?
Dr. CJ. Dodson
10
Grammar translation method is also known as ____method.
Classical method


Questions  framed by Mr. Clint Jerry
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Question
Correct answer
1
In which approach essence of language is meaning?
Natural
2
Guided composition is also known as _____.
Controlled composition
3
Which reading involves a detailed study of linguistic and literary aspects?
Intensive
4
Who is the proponent of Suggestopaedia?
Caleb Gattegno
5
_____is similar to narration.
Description
6
The term ‘workshop’ has been borrowed from ____.
Engineering
7
Write any one type of curriculum?
Child-centred
8
____ is known as Theory of second language learning.
Natural way
9
____ in Greek means treasure-home.
Thesaurus
10
Any type of language game.
Spelling game

Questions  framed by Ms. Aswathy JR.
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Question
Correct answer
1
Who developed community language learning?
Charles A. Curran
2
Which theory begins with the understanding that the working class people have different culture from middle class people?
Cultural deprivation
3
Who defines the lesson plan as ‘a plan of action’?
Lester B. Stands
4
____ is the practice study of evaluating the proficiency of individual in using a particular language effectively.
Language testing
5
The standard English which we follow in our schools is known as ______.
Received pronunciation
6
The old English language was based on _____ grammar.
Latin
7
Extensive reading is based on ____ formula.
SQ3R
8
Who developed Total Physical Response?
James Asher
9
Who wrote the first English dictionary?
Robert Cowdrey
10
In which work Joyce and Weil explain “role playing as a ‘model’ under the social family”?
Models of teaching

Questions  framed by Ms. Mithra MS.
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Question
Correct answer
1
Which school of Psychology popularly known as the ‘Gestalt’ school?
Cognitivist
2
Name of a test which is commonly used to test listening skills.
Dictation
3
In which the term ‘simulation’ is associated with?
Role play
4
Who popularized  Micro-teaching?
D. Wright and W. Allen
5
Name a humanist approach to teach language.
Silent way
6
Who is the father of concept attainment model?
Jerome S Bruner
7
Who wrote the book ‘Testing for Language Teacher’?
Arthur Hughes
8
The learning technique that aids information retention is known as _______.
 Mnemonic strategy
9
_____ is a n important aspect in writing.
Spelling
10
Test refers to the _____ assessment of achievement of people from time to time.
Periodic


Questions  framed by Ms. Devi VM.
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Question
Correct answer
1
The aim and methodology of learning in the new curriculum are envisioned as _____.
Construction of knowledge
2
_____ is used as a pronunciation check.
Reading
3
The relevance of learning poetry can be understood 1from three dimensions-aesthetic relevance, linguistic merits and ____.
Social implications
4
Which technique is equated to the phrase “say it now and think later”?
Brainstorming
5
English enjoys the status of ____ language at the higher secondary level.
Compulsory
6
Oral composition is considered as a preparation for _____ composition.
Written
7
The third phase of micro teaching procedure is ____.
Transfer phase
8
The silent way was developed by ____.
Caleb Gattegno
9
____ type of grammar teaches how polite requests and refusals made, how permission is sought for etc.
Notional-functional grammar
10
Principle of inclusion is a principle of ____.
Content analysis


                                                          










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