CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS WITH QDA MINER LITE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF BALTI AND ENGLISH SYNTACTIC PROCESS

This qualitative study aims to bring in the application of a data analysis tool named QDA Miner software (version 3.1, 2023) for the contrastive analysis of Balti and English syntactic processes.CA, Contrastive Analysis is an approach to appraise the similarities and dissimilarities of two or more languages and this approach has been applied to assess the syntactic process of Balti and English limited to the Present tense, and its transformation processes accordingly.The data was collected from the selected grammar books "Balti Grammar by Lobsang and Essential Grammar (English) by Murphy" for the Contrastive Analysis and later on, was analyzed via QDA Miner Lite (Version 3.1, 2023), a qualitative data analysis software systematically.The current study unlocks the linguistic gap of the Balti word-order in disparity to English.It possesses significant value for future linguistics and education researchers as it has demonstrated the QDA Miner Lite (version 3.1) as a data analysis tool used in CA.The findings exemplified that Balti syntax functions with SOV (Subject plus Object plus Verb) course in contrast to English-SVO (Subject plus Verb plus Object) for sentence construction.