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IGNOU CTE-101 (July 2025 – January 2026) Assignment Questions
Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Do you think that the cultural aspects have some role with Language acquisition? Justify your answer with examples.
2. Discuss the major characteristics of language learner that possess influential features to impact the teaching-learning process at school.
3. What is the importance of flexibility in the curriculum and how it can be attained for language classrooms?
4. Explain various types of cognitive styles with examples.
5. Describe Vygotsky’s approaches for language learning.
6. What is the difference between developmental and transference errors.
7. Do you think it is important to go beyond our textbooks and workbooks when we teach English to our students? Why or why not? Answer with examples.
8. Explain code mixing and its constraints. Also differentiate it from code switching with examples.
9. Discuss the role and status of English language teaching in present India
IGNOU CTE-101 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Discuss the required insights of a language learner, not only as a cognitive entity, but as a social being functioning in a multilingual environment.
2. Do you think that language as a dynamic entity, subject to variation and change? Justify your answer with examples.
3. What are the new theories that are prevalent in terms of the learners, the learning process, classroom management, materials selection and creation, evaluation and methodology of teaching?
4. What are the effective methods and strategies used in teaching-learning the different skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing? Are there more interesting and effective ways of classroom organization and management?
5. What are the challenges faced by the teachers and the learners in making formal grouporiented instruction which are sensitive to individual needs? What are the varied resources children bring to class that need to be recognized and built upon?
6. What does the ‘critical age for language acquisition’ mean? Discuss language system as interlanguage by Larry Selinker (1972), transitional competence (Pit Corder), or approximate system.
7. When does fossilization take place? Can you give examples of certain sounds or grammatical items that have got fossilized in the Indian context?
8. What are the five processes involved in the learning of second language. Elucidate with case studies.
9. Discuss your ideas on “Indian English”. Justify your dialogue with a couple of case studies.
