IGNOU BDP CTE-04 Solved Assignment 2018-2019

IGNOU BDP CTE-04 Solved Assignment 2018-2019

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CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

CTE: 04 TEACHING ENGLISH - ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

(SOLVED ASSIGNMENT)

Course Code: BDP/CTE/2018-19

Max. Marks: 100

Answer any five questions

1. Write short notes on any four of the following:      20
(i, ii, iii, and v are answered)

i) Analytic Evaluation

Evaluation is a necessary educational process that helps students recognise their strengths and weaknesses, thereby improving future writings...

ii) Identifying and helping children with visual impairment 

There are children who are totally blind and those with low vision. The totally blind do not have sufficient vision and cannot find their way while walking...

iii) Problems of underprivileged learners in learning English

Some of the major problems of underprivileged learners’ learning English are as follows:...

iv) Phonic method of teaching

v) Critical listening comprehension

Critical listening is perhaps, the most challenging form of listening as the child is required to think as s/he listens...

vi) Grammar games and grammar practice activities

2. How can the present system of education be adapted to the needs of the underprivileged learners? Discuss.   20

Answer:

The underprivileged are people who are socially, economically, educationally and locationally backward. These include the poor, the ethnic minority groups, the refugees and the immigrants. Some of the causes of their underprivileged status is their poverty, exploitation and discrimination by the privileged people, dominant culture-based educational system and their low motivation for upward social mobility. Teachers must have an awareness of the problems and different needs of the underprivileged learners... 

3. Discuss the role of the teacher in helping the students master aural-oral skills in the class. Give examples of activities.   20

Answer:

The teacher has a significant role in helping the students master aural-oral or listening and speaking skills.

The teacher needs to realise that helping students master oral or speaking skills bring the classroom closer to the real world.

It is important for the teacher to:...

4. What are the similarities and differences in viewing reading as a skill and reading as a process? Discuss.   20

Answer:

There are four major ways in which reading is considered: as a skill, as a process; as comprehension and as development. Each view has its own chief characteristics which promoted a particular methodology. Being aware of what is involved in reading helps the teacher to teach reading effectively by providing the base for assessing and interpreting children's reading performances.

Reading as a skill

In viewing reading as a skill, it is considered that is consciously learned...

5. What is the basic philosophy of the process-based approach to the teaching of writing? How does the writing process help the children to evaluate their writing?     20

Answer:

The basic philosophy of the process-based approach to the teaching of writing

A great advantage that process based methodologies can offer is to allow each child her own way of expressing thoughts and ideas. It provides an opportunity for children to write in their local idioms and tap the richness of their social and cultural backgrounds. Such an approach gives recognition to the child's cultural heritage and adds to the child's strength. This is in contrast to an approach where there is only... 

6. You have been asked by the Principal of your school to assess the spoken skill of the elementary school children. What aspects would you concentrate on? Why?     20

7. Do you agree that errors in writing are a natural part of the learning process? Give reasons.    20

(Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are answered in detail with examples)

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