ENGLISH PEDAGOGY : REMEDIAL TEACHING
- Which of the following is true about remedialteaching?
[A] Providing support to improve performance
[B] Showing sympathy to backward students
[C] Providing extra marks to improve performance
[D] Giving extra attention to gifted children
Ans – [A] : Providing support to improve performance
- A diagnostic test is used to assess:
[A] learners’ ability to summarise the main points in a text.
[B] learners’ ability to recognise their own language mistakes.
[C] and rank learners in order of achievement.
[D] learners’ strong and weak points in language.
Ans – [D] : learners’ strong and weak points in language.
- What should be the order for the process of remedial teaching-
- Collecting and preparing the support materials
- Adapting the curriculum
- Choosing the appropriate teaching strategies
- Organizing teaching materials
- Setting teaching objectives
[A] 5, 2, 4, 3, 1
[B] 5, 3, 4, 1, 2
[C] 3, 5, 4, 2, 1
[D] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ans – [A] : 5, 2, 4, 3, 1
- Which of the following is NOT an objective of using discrepant events in science classroom?
[A] It helps teachers to elicit misconceptions in students.
[B] It helps to create cognitive conflict in students.
[C] It helps student to view their ideas differently.
[D] It helps weak students to perform well in assessment.
Ans – [D] : It helps weak students to perform well in assessment.
- To fill the learning gaps, a language teacher is doing remedial teaching. She identified these gaps with
[A] micro teaching
[B] comprehensive test
[C] competitive test
[D] diagnostic test
Ans – [D] : diagnostic test
- The purpose of remedial teaching is to
[A] introduce new language items
[B] test recently taught items
[C] teach again the language items not properly learnt
[D] teach again the language items already learnt
Ans – [C] : teach again the language items not properly learnt
- Diagnostic tests are administered to_____.
[A] find out deficiencies of the students with a view to planning remedies.
[B] assess the suitability of a candidate for a specific programme.
[C] test the language proficiency of students for providing them jobs.
[D] judge the students’ capabilities.
Ans – [A] : find out deficiencies of the students with a view to planning remedies.
- Teachers can remediate for the students with language learning difficulty by:
[A] focusing on individual progress with individual instruction.
[B] Providing notes that are simplified
[C] Initially giving information as reading only, no writing.
[D] Conduct extra class for the students.
Ans – [A] : focusing on individual progress with individual instruction.
- The aim of remedial teaching is
[A] to diagnose learning difficulties
[B] to eliminate ineffective habits
[C] reteach incorrectly learnt skills
[D] both 2) and 3)
Ans – [D] : both 2) and 3)
- Remedial teaching is a
[A] Preparation of teaching
[B] Systematic process
[C] Pre-teaching program
[D] Random process
Ans – [B] : Systematic process
- Which of these is the strategy of remedial teaching ?
[A] Action Research
[B] Programmed Test
[C] Both A & B
[D] None of the above
Ans – [C]
- A student of class-V while reading a chapter finds some difficult and unfamiliar words and is not able to get the meaning of those words he should:
[A] ignore or skip the word and keep reading
[B] guess the meaning in context
[C] ask his classmate every time to help
[D] ask the teacher
Ans – [B] : guess the meaning in context
- Remedial Teaching pays greater attention to students who
[A] are proficient in English
[B] are likely to go abroad
[C] have fallen behind others
[D] are irregular in attending classes
Ans – [C] : have fallen behind others
- A Remedial Teaching syllabus should be based on
[A] the teacher’s impression of language difficulties
[B] student’s interest in learning language
[C] an analysis of errors made by the learner
[D] an analysis of future needs of the learners
Ans – [C] : an analysis of errors made by the learner
- Mother tongue influence can be effectively minimized in the classroom by-
[A] using the mother tongue more often
[B] giving examples from the mother tongue
[C] giving a lot of exposure in the target language
[D] giving inputs from the target language in a simple, graded manner
Ans – [D] : giving inputs from the target language in a simple, graded manner
