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POST-GRADUATE COURSE d) Oral communication is a two-way process.

Term End Examination December, 2011 How does this view affect classroom
practice ?
Elective Course
OR
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING What are the different types of tests that
Fourth Paper can be used to measure language
proficiency ?
Time : Four Hours Full Marks : 100
( Weightage of Marks : 80% )
SECTION B
Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance in 2. Answer any three of the following questions :
the answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect spelling, 12 3 = 36
untidy work and illegible handwriting. The weightage for
a) What are the various factors that lead to
each question has been indicated in the margin.
good administration of a test ?

SECTION A b) What are your views on the impact of the

theory of schema on understanding the
1. Answer in detail any two of the following
problems of a reader ?
questions : 18 2 = 36
a) In a writing class, the skill should be c) Explain with suitable examples the term
treated as a process oriented activity. What Reliability and Validity in Testing.
are the pedagogical implications of this d) Discuss the role of teacher in developing
statement ? oral skills in the classroom through task-
b) Discuss the importance of listening as an based approach.
active skill with special reference to the e) What are errors ? Explain with reference to
basic process and the learning performance
regular types of errors in writing.
in the process.
f) With reference to Ann Raimes ( 1983 )
c) What a reader reads is the product but
illustrate and explain the complex sub-
how he reads is the process. Discuss with
skills that go to make a good piece of
reference to any reader reading in both first
and second languages. writing.

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SECTION C
3. You want to develop Reading skills with the help
of the text below :
Morsi first Islamist to head an Arab nation
Cairo, June 24 : Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim
Brotherhood was declared the winner of Egypts
first competitive presidential elections today,
handing the Islamist group a symbolic triumph
and a new weapon in its struggle for power with
the ruling military council.
After an hour-long speech in which he detailed
dozens of specific inquiries down to the ballot-
box level, the chairperson of the election
commission, Farouk Sultan, announced that
Morsi had won 517 per cent of the runoff vote
completed last weekend. The other candidate,
former general Ahmed Shafik, won 483 per cent.
In Tahrir Square, where hundreds of thousands
had gathered to await the result, the
confirmation of Morsis win brought instant,
rollicking celebration. Fireworks went up over the
crowd, which took up a pulsing, deafening
chant : Morsi ! Morsi !.
Morsi now becomes the first Islamist elected to be
head of an Arab state. But his victory is an
ambiguous milestone in Egypts promised
transition to democracy after the ouster of Hosni
Mubarak 16 monhs ago.
Morsi, 60 will assume an office stripped of almost
all authority under a military-issued interim
constitution.
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Having dissolved the democratically elected and
Brotherhood-led Parliament on the eve of the
presidential vote, the generals who seized control
after Mubaraks ouster abrogated their pledge to
hand power by June 30.
After 84 years as an often outlawed secret society
struggling in the prisons and shadows of
monarchs and dictators, the Brotherhood is now
closer than ever to its dream of building a novel
Islamist democracy.
New York Times News Service
Answer the questions given below in relation to
this text : 4 7 = 28
a) At which level would you use this text for
developing Reading skills ? Why ?
b) Which areas of syntax and items of
vocabulary would be highlighted in your
plan ? Why ?
c) How would you integrate oral skills as part
of the plan ? Why ?
d) At what stage of your lesson would you
integrate writing skill ? Why ?
e) List some of the problems you are likely to
face which executing the plan. How would
you cater to them ?
f) Frame tasks that you might use for
the pre-Reading stage ( 1 task )
the while-Reading stage ( 1 task )
g) Which sub-skills of reading will the learners
develop through this lesson ? How ?
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