Critically examine the terms Authenticity, Practicality, Reliability, Validity and Washback vis-a-vis the History of Language Tests and Assessments.
See Answer →The Government of India has announced 2010-2020 as the decade of ICT and innovation. What do you understand by the term ‘innovation’?
See Answer →What does ICT mean? What are the implications of ICT for education and especially for teaching of English?
See Answer →Describe the salient features of the Humanistic approach to language teaching.
See Answer →How is ‘linguistic competence’ different from ‘communicative competence’? Explain with examples.
See Answer →Write any two main features of the Audio Lingual method of language teaching.
See Answer →Explain the main features of language learning through the structural approach.
See Answer →The process of learning was essentially of forming associations, i.e. speech associated with appropriate objects, actions, concepts—do you agree with the statement? Justify your answer logically.
See Answer →Discuss how different methods have impacted language teaching learning in the 20th and 21st century and critically analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each method.
See Answer →Discuss the sound and spelling in English. Examine the symbols for the consonants and talk about the sound each symbol stands for.
See Answer →Discuss the major derivational suffixes of English and classify them according to the scheme of classification.
See Answer →What is meant by ‘co-text’ and the ‘context of the situation’? What are their component features
See Answer →What are the three areas which discourse covers with regard to language teaching?
See Answer →As a teacher do you think there are limitations in teaching sentence – based grammar? How would incorporating a discourse perspective help your students?
See Answer →What are the relationships between linguistic elements and the role they perform in certain contextual situations?
See Answer →What are the three factors that connect a text? Of these factors which one do you think is most important in understanding text?
See Answer →Overt linguistic devices are not always required to understand the meaning a text. Give an instance from your language when the socio-cultural context clearly provides the required information to understand a text.
See Answer →What do you understand by the term ‘text’? How is a text organized?
See Answer →Discuss your ideas on “Indian English”. Justify your dialogue with a couple of case studies.
See Answer →What are the five processes involved in the learning of second language. Elucidate with case studies.
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