20th Century Poetry Previous Year Brief (2013-22) Brief - 2013 (a) What is the occasion of Dylan Thomas' poem "Poem in...Continue
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"19th Century Novel" Previous Year Brief Questions From (2013 to 2022) Brief - 2013 a) What is the pseudonym of Charlotte...Continue
TBLT is a method for teaching language. It uses real tasks to teach. Students do activities using the target language. They speak,...Continue
The Grammar Translation Method is a very old method. It started in the 18th and 19th centuries. At first, it was used...Continue
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a way to teach English through real communication. The main goal is to help students speak and...Continue
Situational Language Teaching (SLT) is a way to teach English using real-life situations. Teachers use pictures, objects, or actions to show meaning....Continue
Direct Method: The method of teaching a foreign language without the use of the mother tongue is called the direct method. It...Continue
The Audiolingual Method is one of the earliest and most established methods of teaching second languages. This method mainly focuses on communicative...Continue
Post-Method Pedagogy is a modern way of teaching languages. It emerged as a response to the problems of old methods like the...Continue
What is Desuggestopedia? Desuggestopedia is a way of teaching, especially useful for learning languages. It was made by a Bulgarian doctor and...Continue
Stephen Krashen who is a linguist and educational researcher has developed a model of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) that is known as...Continue
English consonants can be classified according to their places of articulation. This classification helps to understand where the sounds are produced in...Continue
What is the difference between competence and performance? Competence and performance are two important ideas in language. Competence means knowing a language....Continue
Give a brief account of satire in the eighteenth century with reference to Pope, Dryden, Defoe, and Swift. The eighteenth century/The Neo-classical...Continue
Comment on the symbols used in Hopkins’ poems. Symbols are objects or ideas that represent deeper meanings. G. M. Hopkins (1844-189) used...Continue
How does Hopkins combine the themes of nature and religion in his poems? Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was a poet and a...Continue
Critically appreciate the use of imagery in Arnold’s poems. Imagery is a literary device that uses descriptive language to create mental pictures...Continue
Write what you know about Browning’s view of art and life. Or, write a note on Browning’s attitude to art and life....Continue
“Tennyson is at his best in his lyrical and descriptive poems.” Explain with illustrations. Or, Tennyson is a pictorial artist. Or, Discuss...Continue
What are the differences between dialect and register? Language, a human communication system, is diverse. The two key aspects that contribute to...Continue
What is sociolinguistics? Discuss the different varieties of sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics is the study of how language interacts with society. It explores how...Continue
Write a short note on LAD. The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a concept introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s. It...Continue
What is the difference between acquisition and learning? Acquisition and learning are two ways of gaining knowledge or skills, especially in language....Continue
Write a note on Universal Grammar. Universal Grammar (UG) is a linguistics theory that suggests humans are innately able to learn language....Continue