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CTET 7 Feb 2026 Paper 1 English, Question 111

Topic: Pedagogy of language

Q111

Which area is not a part of contrastive analysis?

  1. (1) Syntactic
  2. (2) SemanticCorrect answer
  3. (3) Lexical
  4. (4) Phonological

Solution.

CBSE answer: (2)

Answer: (2) Semantic

  1. Contrastive analysis compares the mother tongue with the target language to predict learners' difficulties.
  2. In its classic form it compares sound systems (phonological), sentence structures (syntactic) and vocabulary (lexical).
  3. Meaning (semantics) is the area not treated as a core level of this comparison, so it is the odd one out.

Trap: (3) Lexical comparison of vocabulary is a standard part of contrastive analysis.