The B.Ed Language Across the Curriculum Important Questions 2026 set on this page carries 12 most probable questions for the MDU Rohtak annual examination of Paper IV(A), Code 17124. Every question was selected after reading the actual MDU papers of 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 line by line, tracking what repeats and what is overdue. Three questions from the set are shown below and two of them are fully solved as a no-cost preview.
Reviewed by Sheetal Kirola, M.Ed., B.Ed Faculty · Prepared for the MDU 2026 annual examination cycle
B.Ed Language Across the Curriculum Important Questions 2026 at a Glance
| Subject | Language Across the Curriculum (LAC) |
| Paper and Code | Paper IV(A), Code 17124 |
| Course and Year | B.Ed 2nd Year, Two Year Programme |
| University | Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak |
| Exam Cycle | MDU Annual Examination 2026 |
| Maximum marks and time | 40 marks in 90 minutes |
| Questions in the set | 12 (one compulsory short notes question and 11 long answers) |
| Syllabus coverage | All six units of the LAC syllabus |
| Papers analysed | 5 years (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) |
| Length of solution | Roughly 28 pages of written answers |
| No-cost preview | 3 sample questions and 2 complete answers |
| Delivery | PDF on WhatsApp |
MDU Exam Pattern and Marking Scheme for Paper IV(A) Code 17124
Language Across the Curriculum is a shorter paper than most B.Ed subjects, and students routinely misjudge it because of that. Forty marks in ninety minutes leaves very little room to think in the hall. Know the structure before you plan revision.
- Maximum marks: 40. Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes.
- Attempt: Three questions in all. Question 1 is compulsory and you choose one long answer from each section.
- Question 1: Short notes carrying 8 marks in total, set as four notes of 2 marks each.
- Long answers: 16 marks each. Two long answers plus the compulsory short notes make up the full 40.
- Word planning: About 400 words for a 16 mark answer, about 200 words for an 8 mark answer, about 100 words for 4 marks and about 60 words for a 2 mark short note.
- Language: The paper is bilingual, printed in English and Hindi. Answer in whichever you write faster.
- Before you write: Verify the question paper code 17124 on the cover. No complaint about a wrong paper is entertained once the examination has begun.
- Scheme: MDU B.Ed follows the annual scheme, so this is a 2nd Year paper and not a semester paper. The pattern is confirmed each year in the B.Ed 2nd year Question Papers released after the examination.
Important Chapters and Units for Language Across the Curriculum B.Ed 2nd Year
The LAC syllabus runs across six units, but the marks are not spread evenly across them. Five years of papers show a clear pattern of where examiners return. Here is the chapter by chapter picture.
Unit 1: Concept and Need of Language Across the Curriculum
The foundation unit and the most reliably examined. The meaning of LAC in its narrow and wider senses, the need for integrating language with content, the eight benefits of the approach, the functions of language in classroom learning, and the role of the content subject teacher as a co-teacher of language. Two of the highest priority long answers come from here.
Unit 2: Multilingualism, Language Acquisition and Diversity
The heaviest unit by volume. Multilingualism treated as a resource, a strategy and a goal in the words of NCF 2005, the Three Language Formula of the Kothari Commission, translanguaging and code switching in the classroom, the process of first language acquisition through crying, cooing, babbling and the first word, and multicultural awareness with social diversity. Three questions in the set are drawn from this unit alone.
Unit 3: Classroom Practice and Language Environment
Questioning in the classroom with the seven types, the language rich classroom and the conditions that create one, and classroom discussion with its benefits for the learner. Questioning has a live gap since 2022, which makes it a strong candidate for a return.
Unit 4: Listening and Speaking Skills
The four stage process of listening through hearing, understanding, remembering and evaluating, followed by responding, together with the importance of listening and the need to develop speaking. Appeared in both 2021 and 2025.
Unit 5: Reading Skill
The meaning of reading as sight, sound and sense, its importance for children, and the seven types of reading from loud and silent through to rapid reading with the SQ3R formula. Problems in reading and their remedies sit here as a backup chapter.
Unit 6: Writing Skill and Composition
Report writing with its steps, essential qualities and the four Ws plus How, notice writing and its salient features, and the importance of writing as the final productive skill. Report writing appeared in 2025 and writing skill is now firmly in the examiner's rotation.
Important Topics for Language Across the Curriculum B.Ed 2026
Below is the complete high yield topic map for Code 17124, built from a five year scan of the B.Ed Language Across the Curriculum Question Papers. Priority is HIGH where a topic repeated across papers or is a core topic overdue for a return, MEDIUM where it appeared two or three times, and LOW where a single reading is enough.
High priority topics, prepare these first
- Meaning, need and benefits of the LAC approach, including the narrow and wider senses of the term.
- Functions of language in classroom learning and the role of the content subject teacher.
- Need and importance of language as the medium through which all subjects are learnt.
- Multilingualism as a resource and a strategy, with NCF 2005 and the Three Language Formula.
- Process of language acquisition in children and the stages of speech development.
- Questioning in the classroom, its importance and the seven types of questions.
- Listening and speaking as communicative skills, with the four stage process of listening.
- Reading skill, its importance for children and the seven types of reading.
- Report writing, the steps involved, the qualities of a good report and the four Ws plus How.
- Importance of writing skill as the final productive language skill.
- Concept of the multilingual classroom as a short note.
Medium priority topics, prepare as second choice
- Multicultural awareness and social diversity, and how a teacher fosters it.
- Language rich classroom, its importance and the conditions that create one.
- Classroom discussion and the benefits of student participation.
- Essentials of communicative skills as a general question.
- Problems in reading and their remedies.
- Notice writing and its salient features as a short note.
Low priority topics, one reading is enough
- Principles of language as a standalone question.
- Objectives of the short play.
- Methods of teaching the English language, which belongs more properly to the pedagogy paper.
- Discourse and narrative treated as separate theoretical tools.
How These B.Ed Language Across the Curriculum Important Questions Were Selected
Most guess papers circulating in student groups are a reshuffled syllabus index. This one was built backwards from the evidence. We began with five years of B.Ed previous year Question Papers for Code 17124, tabulated every topic that appeared, counted the repetitions, and then applied two filters.
The first filter keeps what repeats. Meaning and benefits of LAC, functions of language, multilingualism, listening and speaking, and reading all surfaced more than once and are near certainties. The second filter keeps what is overdue. Questioning in the classroom has not appeared since 2022 despite being a core Unit 3 chapter, and language acquisition is a syllabus centrepiece that the examiner has left alone for too long. Both are carried as HIGH for exactly that reason. Anything that appeared once and sits at the edge of the syllabus was cut, which is why the set holds 12 questions and not 40.
Every answer is written from the prescribed MDU 17124 study material, so the definitions, the theorist citations and the numbered points match what the evaluator is trained to look for.
Five Year Frequency Analysis of Language Across the Curriculum Repeated Topics
This table is the working evidence behind the set. It records, topic by topic, what every b.ed 2nd year important questions list ought to be built on, which is what MDU actually asked for Code 17124 between 2021 and 2025.
| Topic | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meaning, need and benefits of LAC | Yes | Yes | HIGH | |||
| Functions of language in the classroom | Yes | Yes | HIGH | |||
| Need and importance of language | Yes | Yes | HIGH | |||
| Multilingualism as resource and strategy | Yes | Yes | HIGH | |||
| Language acquisition in children | HIGH (overdue) | |||||
| Questioning in the classroom and its types | Yes | HIGH (gap since 2022) | ||||
| Importance of listening skill | Yes | Yes | HIGH | |||
| Importance of speaking skill | Yes | HIGH | ||||
| Reading skill, importance and types | Yes | Yes | HIGH | |||
| Writing skill, importance | Yes | HIGH | ||||
| Report writing, steps and format | Yes | HIGH | ||||
| Concept of the multilingual classroom | Yes | HIGH | ||||
| Multicultural awareness and social diversity | Yes | MEDIUM | ||||
| Language rich classroom | MEDIUM | |||||
| Classroom discussion and participation | MEDIUM | |||||
| Essentials of communicative skills | Yes | MEDIUM | ||||
| Problems in reading and remedies | Yes | MEDIUM | ||||
| Notice writing and its features | Yes | MEDIUM | ||||
| Principles of language | Yes | LOW | ||||
| Objectives of the short play | Yes | LOW |
Two rows deserve a second look. Language acquisition and the language rich classroom show no ticks at all across five years, yet one is marked HIGH and the other MEDIUM. That is not an error. Language acquisition is a syllabus centrepiece with a full chapter behind it, and a topic of that weight left untouched for five years is a topic waiting to be asked. The language rich classroom carries less syllabus weight, so it is held at MEDIUM.
Three Sample Questions from the Language Across the Curriculum Guess Paper
These three questions are lifted straight from the set, in MDU examination language. Two of them are solved in full below. The third is answered in the complete solved set.
- Sample Question 1 (2 marks, short note, Unit 6): Write a short note on the salient features of notice writing. Solved below.
- Sample Question 2 (16 marks, Unit 5): What is reading skill? Discuss the importance of developing reading skill in children. Enumerate the various types of reading. Solved below.
- Sample Question 3 (16 marks, Unit 1): Describe the meaning, need and benefits of the language across the curriculum approach. Answer included in the complete solved set.
Solved Sample Answers as a No-Cost Preview
Read these two answers with the structure in mind, not just the content. Every answer in the set opens with a definition in quotation marks, carries a theorist citation, uses numbered points with bold lead phrases, and closes on a two line applied conclusion. That is the template an MDU evaluator marks quickly and rewards.
Answer to Sample Question 1: Salient Features of Notice Writing (2 marks, about 60 words)
"A notice is used for collective information when a message is meant for a large number of people such as members of an organisation, children of a school, participants of an event or even the general public."
- Brief and Short: A notice should be brief, to the point and within 40 to 50 words.
- Three Parts: It carries a head, a body and the issuing authority or contact person.
- Complete Information: Date, venue, chief guest, prize and the name of the issuing authority must all be clear.
Answer to Sample Question 2: Reading Skill, Importance and Types (16 marks, about 400 words)
"Reading is a form of experience. It brings us in contact with minds of great authors with the written account of their experiences, their recorded lives and the advancement made by them in various fields."
Bacon said that reading makes a full man. Dr West described reading as the recognition of the important elements of meaning in their essential relation, including accuracy, thoughtfulness and comprehension. Reading is a process of sight, sound and sense, in which the learner looks at a written symbol and translates it into an approximate sound and then into meaning.
Importance of developing reading skill in children
- Fundamental to Function: Reading is fundamental to functioning in modern society. Many adults cannot follow basic instructions without help.
- Vital for a Career: Reports and memos must be read and responded to in almost every occupation.
- Develops the Mind: The mind is a muscle that needs exercise, and reading supplies it.
- Discovery of New Things: Books, magazines and the internet open worlds the learner cannot otherwise reach.
- Develops Imagination: Through reading a child can go anywhere and become anyone.
- Develops Creativity: Stories engage prediction and the thinking of what comes next.
- Improves Spelling and Vocabulary: Sound reading habits, especially through phonics, expand vocabulary and fix spelling.
- Builds Self Image: Non readers often hold low opinions of themselves. Reading builds a confident learner.
Types of reading
According to F. G. French, the teacher acts as a guide showing the class how to uncover all that there is in the subject matter. There are mainly seven types of reading.
- Loud or Oral Reading: Fosters a love of literature, corrects pronunciation and aids learning.
- Silent Reading: Used in practical life, it develops independent readers and is faster than spoken reading.
- Intensive Reading: The learner comprehends ideas and feelings thoroughly. Stress falls on knowledge of language.
- Extensive Reading: Stress falls on the material read. The aim is to enrich knowledge by adding experience and information.
- Supplementary Reading: Assists the main reading activity and supplements the intensive reading of a detailed prose lesson.
- Library Reading: Unsupervised private reading for enjoyment or for greater knowledge.
- Rapid Reading: A necessity of modern times, using the SQ3R formula of Survey, Question, Read, Revise and Rewrite.
Conclusion: Reading is the master key to knowledge, imagination and personal growth. By developing all seven types in their learners, teachers prepare students not merely to pass an examination but to function and flourish in modern society.
What the Complete Solved Set Covers
The complete guess paper holds 12 questions with model answers running to roughly 28 pages, drawn from the HIGH and MEDIUM topics mapped above. It covers the compulsory short notes question with its four most likely notes, and long answers on the meaning and need and benefits of LAC, the functions of language with the role of the content subject teacher, multilingualism as a resource and a strategy, the process of language acquisition in children, multicultural awareness, questioning in the classroom, the language rich classroom, classroom discussion, listening and speaking skills, reading skill, and report writing.
Get the Complete Language Across the Curriculum Solved Guess Paper for Language Across the Curriculum
What the complete solution includes
- All 12 questions with full model answers, roughly 28 pages.
- Unit wise mapping across all six units so every compulsory choice is covered.
- The five year frequency table with priority tags.
- Word targets per question so the ninety minutes can be planned properly.
- Delivered as a PDF on WhatsApp, ready to print or read on a phone.
To order the complete solved Language Across the Curriculum B.Ed guess paper, message the B.Ed desk on WhatsApp 9355198199 and mention "LAC 17124 Guess Paper 2026".
Answer Writing Strategy Examiners Reward
- Open with a definition and a citation. NCF 2005, the Kothari Commission, Bacon, Dr West or Neil Postman. An answer that opens on a quoted definition reads as prepared rather than improvised.
- Link every theoretical point to the Indian classroom. Do not stop at the claim that multilingualism is a resource. Name the strategy the teacher uses, such as code switching or cross linguistic comparison.
- Cite the policy anchors. NCF 2005, the Three Language Formula and the Kothari Commission of 1964 to 66 belong in almost every Unit 1 and Unit 2 answer.
- Use numbered points with bold sub headings. With only ninety minutes, an examiner scans. Structure collects marks that prose loses.
- Close with an applied line about the teacher's role. That single reflective sentence often carries the closing marks.
- Watch the clock, not the word count. Forty marks in ninety minutes means roughly thirty five minutes per long answer and no time to redraft.
What Not to Waste Revision Time On
With a ninety minute paper, knowing what to leave out matters as much as knowing what to learn. From the five year scan, these gave a poor return on effort. Cross checking against a broader list of b.ed important questions makes the same point.
- Topics that belong to a different paper altogether, such as physical education, first aid and postural deformities. They appear in student circulated lists by mistake.
- Memorising every item in a twenty point benefits list. The top six to eight points carry the marks.
- Over technical content such as detailed phonology, linguistic transformation or research method not present in the prescribed textbook.
- Long background paragraphs on the colonial history of English. One or two sentences of introduction is the correct dose.
- Reproducing entire model notices and letters word for word. Learn the format and write your own in the hall.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many questions are in the B.Ed Language Across the Curriculum Important Questions 2026 set?
There are 12 questions in the complete set. One is the compulsory short notes question carrying 8 marks, set as four notes of 2 marks each, and the remaining 11 are long answer questions of 16 marks each spread across all six units of the LAC syllabus. The complete solution runs to roughly 28 pages, with each long answer written to about 400 words.
How many questions and answers can I read at no cost on this page?
Three sample questions from the set are shown on this page and two of them are solved in full. The solved samples are the short note on the salient features of notice writing and the 16 mark answer on reading skill with its importance and seven types. The third sample question, on the meaning and need and benefits of the LAC approach, is answered in the complete solved set delivered on WhatsApp.
What is the exam pattern for MDU Paper IV(A) Code 17124?
The Language Across the Curriculum paper carries a maximum of 40 marks and is written in one hour and thirty minutes. Candidates attempt three questions in all. Question 1 is compulsory and carries 8 marks as short notes, and two long answer questions of 16 marks each are chosen from the sections. The paper is printed bilingually in English and Hindi.
Is this guess paper based on the MDU syllabus for Code 17124?
Yes. Every question is drawn from the prescribed MDU syllabus for Paper IV(A), Language Across the Curriculum, for B.Ed 2nd Year of the two year programme. The answers are written from the prescribed MDU 17124 study material so that terminology, definitions and theorist citations match what the evaluator expects to see in the answer script.
How do I get the complete solved guess paper?
Message the Unnati Educations B.Ed desk on WhatsApp at 9355198199 or 9899436384 and mention Language Across the Curriculum Code 17124 Guess Paper 2026. The complete solution covers all 12 questions with model answers across roughly 28 pages, and is delivered as a PDF you can read on a phone or print for revision before the examination.
Why are some topics marked HIGH when they have never appeared in five years?
Because a guess paper predicts, it does not merely record. Language acquisition in children is a full chapter of the prescribed syllabus and has been left untouched across the last five papers, which makes it overdue rather than unlikely. Questioning in the classroom carries a similar gap since 2022. Topics with real syllabus weight and a long absence are exactly the ones examiners return to.
Disclaimer and Source Note
Unnati Educations is an independent academic support platform. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, or any of its departments. All answers are prepared from the MDU prescribed syllabus and the study material for Paper IV(A), Language Across the Curriculum, Code 17124. This guess paper is a study aid and predicts probable questions on the basis of past paper analysis. It carries no guarantee that identical questions will appear in the MDU 2026 annual examination. Students should verify the current syllabus and examination scheme on the official MDU website before appearing.