Read the following statements and choose the correct option : Assertion (A) :…
2023
Read the following statements and choose the correct option :
Assertion (A) : A plan for individualised learning must be created by a language teacher.
Reason (R) : There is diversity in learners in the learning of new languages.
Answer: B. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). — Concept: An assertion–reason item is settled by two separate tests taken in order. First, is each statement independently true? Second, does the Reason supply…
- A.
(A) is true, but (R) is false.
- B.
Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
- C.
(A) is false, but (R) is true.
- D.
Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
Concept: An assertion–reason item is settled by two separate tests taken in order. First, is each statement independently true? Second, does the Reason supply the sufficient ground that establishes exactly what the Assertion claims? A Reason can be entirely true and still fail the second test, because a descriptive fact about a situation does not by itself establish a normative obligation about what must be done and by whom.
Application to this item
Test the Assertion alone. Drawing up a plan for individualised learning is a recognised professional expectation of a language teacher, so the Assertion stands as true.
Test the Reason alone. Learners beginning a new language differ in home language, prior exposure, pace and proficiency, so the Reason also stands as true.
Test the explanatory link. The Assertion is normative and agent-specific: an individualised plan must be made, and the language teacher must make it. The Reason is purely descriptive: learners vary. Variation is a condition the teacher has to respond to, but it does not by itself fix the response as an individual written plan, nor does it assign that duty to the language teacher.
Check what language pedagogy actually does with diversity. A language classroom treats learner diversity largely as a resource — multilingual talk, mixed-ability pairing, peer support and group tasks are the standard responses. Diversity is therefore consistent with several different responses, so it does not single out individualised planning as the required one.
Conclusion: both statements are true, and the Reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.
Cross-check by contrast
Had the Reason read “each learner needs a separately paced route to the same language outcome”, it would have supplied the sufficient ground and the explanatory link would have held. The gap is in the Reason’s content, not in its truth.
The Assertion cannot be judged false: drawing up a plan for individualised learning is an accepted expectation of the language teacher.
The Reason cannot be judged false either: variation among language learners is directly observable in any classroom.
So both statements are true while the causal link between them fails — that is the configuration this item asks for.
Note on the reported disagreement
CBSE’s official final answer key for CTET (August 2023) Paper II, Language–II English marks this configuration consistently across every shuffled booklet set; some commercial solution keys instead argue that learner diversity directly explains the need for individualised planning. The official key is followed here, and the reasoning above sets out why the descriptive fact of diversity does not by itself establish the Assertion’s normative, agent-specific claim.