Open AccessA Diagnostic Study of Learning Difficulties and Errors Made by the Students in English at Secondary School Level
Author(s) -
K S Siddaraju,
H.R. Jayamma
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
scholarly research journal for interdisciplinary studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2319-4766
pISSN - 2278-8808
DOI - 10.21922/srjis.v4i37.10590
Subject(s) - test (biology) , diagnostic test , reading (process) , mathematics education , language assessment , psychology , english language , computer science , linguistics , medicine , emergency medicine , paleontology , philosophy , biology
Diagnosis means identifying the difficulties and errors done by the students of secondary schools in English language learning. They are intended primarily to ascertain what learning still needs to take place. In language skills testing, one can be reasonably straight forward. One can be fairly confident of one’s ability to create tests that will tell whether someone is particularly weak in say speaking, reading and writing in English language. Diagnostic testing is a lengthy process in comparison to other testing tools. A diagnostic test is a test used to diagnose or reveal an individual’s weakness and strength in a certain course of study (Hughes 2003, p. 50). Diagnostic test is helpful to identify the use of faulty, round about or incorrect procedures, the use of elementary processes where these could have been replaced by advanced processes.