MCQ Questions Language skill Reading Pedagogy ❘ CTET Questions On Language skill Reading Pedagogy ❘ primary & Upper Primary TET Questions on Language skill Reading Pedagogy.
1. Which one is true for reading
(i) reading is a matter of decoding.
(ii) reading is a psycholinguistic guessing game.
(iii) reading is thinking under the stimulus of the printed page.
(a) only (i) and (ii)
(b) only (ii) and (ii)
(c) only (i) and (ii)
(d) i) & (ii) & (ii)
Ans: d) i) & (ii) & (ii)
2. ‘Gloss‘ means-
(a) Providing the meaning from dictionary.
(b) Providing the specific meaning of a word in which context it is used.
(C) Providing synonyms and antonyms of a word.
(d) Providing the derivational forms of a word.
Ans: (b) Providing the specific meaning of a word in which context it is used.
3. Ruhan needs to find out a specific telephone number from directory. What kind of reading he will employ
in this task ?
(b) Scanning
(a) Skimming
(d) Extensive reading
(c) Intensive reading.
Ans: (b) Scanning.
4. Reading for understanding the gist of a story involves—
(a) Skimming
(b) Scanning
(d) Extensive reading
(c) Intensive reading.
Ans: (d) Extensive reading.
5. The words which have lexical meanings are called-
(a) Grammatical words
(b) Content words
(C) Structural words
(d)Empty words.
Ans: (b) Content words.
6. Loud reading is useful for-
(a) Spelling correction
(b) Content words
(d) Concentration
(c) Comprehension.
Ans: (b) Content words.
7. Three phases of a reading class are termed as-
(i) Pre-reading, while reading, and post-reading.
(ii) Before-reading, during-reading and after-reading.
Which of the above statements are true?
(a) only (i)
(b) only (ii)
(c)(i) or (ii) interchangeably
(d) none of the above.
Ans: (c)(i) or (ii) interchangeably.
8. Finding out key words and topic sentence in a reading activity belongs to which phase?
(a) Pre-reading phase
(b) Post-reading phase
(c) While-reading phase
(d) None of these.
Ans: (c) While-reading phase .
9. Suggesting another ending to a given story—is a task that can be given at which phase of reading class ?
(b) While-reading
(a) Pre-reading
(d) None of these
(c) Post-reading.
Ans: (c) Post-reading.
10. Questions that are asked before reading the text are called-
(a) While-reading questions
(b) Pre-reading questions
(c) Intralinguistic questions
(d) Post-reading questions
Ans: (b) Pre-reading questions.
11. Find the odd one from the alternatives:
(a) Prediction
(b) Reading for specific details
(c) Reading for main idea
(d) Subvocalising
Ans: (d) Subvocalising.
12. The SSR (Sustained silent reading) is a reading where-
(a) Students read for critical understanding.
(b) Students read for creative understanding of the text.
(c) Students read for anlytical understanding.
(d) Students read a large amount of texts for general understanding.
Ans: (d) Students read a large amount of texts for general understanding.
13. SQ3R (Robinson, 1970) stands for
(a) Survey, Question, Read, Recall, Review
(b) Search, Question, Recall, Read, Review
(c) Survey, Question, Read, Review, Recall
(d) None of above
Ans: (a) Survey, Question, Read, Recall, Review.
14. “Ad-hoc vocabulary means
(a) Words which are important for a given piece of text.
(b) Words which students require for his own use in speech or writing.
(c)Words which are technical in nature.
(d) Words which are new to the learners.
Ans: (a) Words which are important for a given piece of text.
15. Another term for ‘active vocabulary’ is-
(a) Productive vocabulary.
(b) Receptive vocabulary.
(c) Passive vocabulary.
(d) Ad-hoc vocabulary.
Ans:(a) Productive vocabulary .
16. The purpose of the language teacher is to expand Vocabulary. Choose one option the learner’s given below to fill in.
(a) Ad-hoc vocabulary.
(b) Passive vocabulary.
(C) Active vocabulary.
(d) Productive vocabulary
Ans: (b) Passive vocabulary.
17. To get the superficial idea of the text, we use what type of reading?
(a) Skimming
(b) Scanning
(c) Intensive reading
(d) Extensive reading.
Ans: (a) Skimming.
18. Which one is the best for expansion of vocabulary ?
(a) Wide reading
(b) Direct instruction.
(e) Incidental instruction.
(d) Programmed instruction.
Ans: (a) Wide reading.
19. Reading a research article involves
(a) Skimming
(b) Scanning
(c) Intensive reading
(d) Extensive reading.
Ans: (c) Intensive reading .
20. The words which have little meaning of their but show grammatical relationship in and etween sentences are called-
(a) Full words
(b) Lexical words
(C) Structural words
(d) Content words.
Ans: (C) Structural words.
21. Find the odd one out from the list below—
(a) Functors
(b) Form words
(C) Empty words
(d) Full words.
Ans: (d) Full words.
22. Which one is not true for idioms?
(a) Idioms consist of more than one word.
(b) Idioms are fixed collocations.
(c) Idioms are semantically opaque.
(d) Idioms are part of a sub-standard language.
Ans: (d) Idioms are part of a sub-standard language.
23. Find the odd one out from the list below—
(a) Compounding
(b) Fixation
(c) Derivation
(d) Collocation.
Ans: (d) Collocation.
24. Open set’ refers to—
(a) Conjunction & preposition.
(b) Preposition & pronouns.
(c) Grammatical wards.
(d) Content words.
Ans: (d) Content words.
25. Find the odd one out from the list below—
(a) Eponymy
(b) Synonymy
(c) Antonymy
(d) Polyphony
Ans: (d) Polyphony.
26. Close set’ refers to—
(a) Content words
(b) Empty words
(c) Noun, verb, adjectives & adverbs
(d) Full words
Ans: (b) Empty words.
27. Hopkins coined the term— widow-making'”. It is an example of-
(a) Archaism
(b) Neologism
(c) Euphemism
(d) Simile.
Ans: (b) Neologism.
28. The word ‘shoon’ (means ‘shoe’) is not used in Current speech. It is only rarely used in poetry. So It an example of
(a) Neologism
(b) Euphemism
(C) Archaism
(d) Simile.
Ans: (C) Archaism.
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